Are optical cables and network cables the same? If you want to know their differences, you must first understand them. Let's take a look at optical cables and network cables.

Optical fiber cable is manufactured to meet optical, mechanical or environmental performance specifications, it is a communication using one or more optical fibers placed in a sheath as the transmission medium and can be used individually or in groups cable assembly. Optical cables are mainly composed of optical fibers (glass filaments as thin as hair), plastic protective sleeves and plastic sheaths. There are no metals such as gold, silver, copper and aluminum in the optical cables, and generally have no recycling value.

To connect to a local area network, a network cable is essential. The common network cables in the local area network mainly include twisted pair, coaxial cable and optical cable. Twisted pair is a data transmission line composed of many pairs of wires. It is characterized by low price, so it is widely used, such as our common telephone lines. It is used to connect with the RJ45 crystal head. It has two kinds of STP and UTP, we commonly use UTP.