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fiber-optic cable




A cable that acts as a medium to transmit data at high speeds. Using fiber-optics, the cable guides the light of the transmitting lasers without significant loss of information, and it helps enable high-speed networking (for example, at speeds of 100 Mbps).

See also : network  MAN  

NetLingo Classification: Net Hardware

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