Ensure Smooth Business Operations with Fibre Cabling Installation

Posted by Elam Cabling Group on February 4th, 2020

A fibre-optic cabling installation offers numerous benefits to  entrepreneurs. While fibre-optic cabling connectivity is a much newer technology than broadband internet on copper cable, many businesses have found significantly higher returns on their investment in fibre.

Fibre-optic cabling connectivity can lend a great benefit to businesses of all sizes, particularly organizations that use the cloud for apps or data storage.

Fibre-optic is many times faster than even the highest-speed copper connections, with options accessible that range from 5 Mbps to 100 Gbps. During periods of high demand for Internet access, your business should not notice the Internet slowing down.

Research shows that slow Internet connections cost employees "one week per year of productivity." While the time your teams spend waiting for slow Internet can appear to be minor, it adds up significantly over time. Your Internet connectivity should never inhibit productivity. It should be a tool that supports your employees' desire to work efficiently.

From customer relationship management (CRM) tools to data storage, the cloud is an important business tool for apps, hosting, and more. 96% of organisations are presently using the cloud in some capacity. The speed and bandwidth capabilities of fibre mean faster access to your data and applications stored in the cloud.

Your business can benefit from fewer delays in accessing cloud-hosted information via your software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools and other platforms, which implies your sales and customer service employees will no longer face delays with communicating with prospects or customers. As businesses move more and more services to the cloud, fibre cabling is becoming essential.

Fibre cabling connectivity offers significant reliability benefits over copper Internet connectivity, due to the fact that fiber is much stronger than copper. Fibre-optic Internet isn't vulnerable to severe climate conditions, which can harm or slow down data transmission via copper cabling. Fibre is also resistant to human or electrical interference unless fibers are physically cut.

Unreliable Internet connections can have real costs for businesses. Any amount of unplanned downtime can bring business communications and productivity to a complete stop. If your buisness needs an Internet connection to make phone calls or access applications, reliability is a necessity.

With traditional broadband Internet using DSL or Ethernet over Copper, the signal degrades as the user moves away from the switch. The signal strength of fibre-optic Internet does not degrade as quickly over distance. Organisations in relatively large spaces could benefit from better signal strength throughout the facility. This could be especially true for employees in workplaces that are located a significant distance from the telecommunications room, which may be negatively affected by distance with broadband Internet.

For businesses with a high need for data transmission, it's generally simple to "hit the cap" on your cable Internet bandwidth. While fibre cabling for business is not truly unlimited, the bandwidth availability is significantly higher, and speed does not reduce as high demands are put on the network.

So, choose fibre cabling to carry signals over much longer distances with less signal degradation.