so, just how bendable are these new cables compared to old ones? Can't find any numbers on that in the article.
Here in Norway, they have installed fiber into private homes for a few years now.
The outdoor cable can bend radius of 20cm (8in), and once the thick plastic shell is peeled off for indoor use it can handle 2-3cm (1in) bends. I haven't found any theoretical speed limits for the cables yet, but they say it should be good enough for decades. (At the moment they only offer speeds up to 50/25mbit, but that seems to be more because they don't want their backbones breaking under the insane P2P load... And the router/brigde seems to be only 100mbit on the LAN plug)
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so, just how bendable are these new cables compared to old ones? Can't find any numbers on that in the article. Here in Norway, they have installed fiber into private homes for a few years now. The outdoor cable can bend radius of 20cm (8in), and once the thick plastic shell is peeled off for indoor use it can handle 2-3cm (1in) bends. I haven't found any theoretical speed limits for the cables yet, but they say it should be good enough for decades. (At the moment they only offer speeds up to 50/25mbit, but that seems to be more because they don't want their backbones breaking under the insane P2P load... And the router/brigde seems to be only 100mbit on the LAN plug)