What is fiber optic cabling and what are the two types of fiber-optic cable?

What will be an ideal response?


Fiber-optic cables transmit signals as pulses of light over glass or plastic strands inside protected tubing. Fiber-optic cable comes in two types: single-mode and multimode. A single-mode cable uses a single path for light to travel in the cable and multimode cable uses multiple paths for light. Both single-mode and multimode fiber-optic cables can be constructed as loose-tube cables for outdoor use or tight-buffered cables for indoor or outdoor use. Loose-tube cables are filled with gel to prevent water from soaking into the cable, and tight-buffered cables are filled with yarn to protect the fiber-optic strands.

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