{"id":766,"date":"2023-03-01T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epictouch.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:57:45","slug":"how-fiber-is-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epictouch.com\/blog\/how-fiber-is-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fiber is Made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>EpicTouch<\/strong> offers business-level fiber optic cable service, part of a nationwide rollout that\u2019s bringing the fastest internet service with the broadest bandwidth ever before widely available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just what is fiber optic cable, and how is it made? And what makes it so much better than copper cable?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also commonly called fiber cable, fiber optic cable is a cable line filled with very thin filaments made from silica glass or plastic. The data is then transmitted using light pulses rather than the electrical signals used to move information on copper lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fiber cable moves data much faster than copper lines\u2014easily 20 times faster or more\u2014and can accommodate far more data at once, which means more devices can use bandwidth-hogging applications at once without throttling, buffering, or other slowdowns that could occur during high-traffic times, like your business hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A quick history of fiber optic telecommunications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexander Graham Bell gets the credit for being one of the earliest experimenters with fiber optic technology, something he explored as he created the telephone in the 1880s. But it was almost a century later before commercial production began.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit for the big breakthrough goes to Corning engineers who found a way to make strands of glass that could move data contained within pulses of light that computers could then convert to usable forms for the human beings at each end. And critically, it could do all that without the light pulses leaking from the cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was in the 1970s, at the dawn of the computer age. In fact, fiber optics grew up along with computers and the internet as telecommunications technology advanced at the revolutionary pace that we\u2019re still seeing today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The 3 Cs of fiber cable&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fiber optic cable is manufactured with three major components. 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