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Calculating Fiber Signal Loss and Distance

As the need for bandwidth rises and the cost of fiber-optic cable drops, fiber is beginning to replace copper cable in many network topologies. This article describes fiber's physical attributes and explains how to calculate signal loss and the communications range for a fiber installation.

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