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What Standarad does Fiber-Optic Internet use?

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Hey guys I'm doing a research paper and I cant quite seems figure out a good way to query my question in google to get a proper answer.

 

All I want to know is what data transfer standard do Fiber-OPtic networks, provided by Verizon for example, use to deliver service?

 

I know that Copper Networks like Spectrum's use the DOCSIS standard, so what is the DOCSIS equivalent for Fiber?

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Depends. 

 

Don't know much though so don't ask me.

 

BTW Cable networks use DOCSIS and copper ones use ADSL, SDSL VDSL and some others.

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35 minutes ago, BrownZeus said:

Hey guys I'm doing a research paper and I cant quite seems figure out a good way to query my question in google to get a proper answer.

 

All I want to know is what data transfer standard do Fiber-OPtic networks, provided by Verizon for example, use to deliver service?

 

I know that Copper Networks like Spectrum's use the DOCSIS standard, so what is the DOCSIS equivalent for Fiber?

For which country?

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Many fiber ISPs use different standards. Each different ISP has a different brand of network gear.

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To simplify it a bit if you've got copper running from some point in the chain into your property you're probably using some variation of DSL. Some providers will call stuff like VDSL with short loops "fibre" to differentiate it from ADSL but it's still effectively DSL. If you have a cable service or "HFC" you're using probably using some variation of DOCSIS. I wouldn't call these services "copper" because that just confuses people who think you're talking about DSL.

 

And that leaves Fibre. If you have a full fibre service running right into your house? It's probably using some variation of PON. There are multiple variations of it but essentially the idea is that there are no powered cabinets in the street. It is a Passive Optical Network. Now the speed it runs at and how bandwidth is split up changes what variation you're call it. But whatever it is, it's likely some kind of Passive Optical Network.

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