Re: And thus the problem
"This is why buildings run UTP to the desktop instead of MMF. "
It's the same _cost_ to run fibre or copper in the building - if anything fibre is cheaper as it's far less bulky and it's a hell of a lot safer in most cases (mains up the networking is still a risk and happens from time to time), but would rule out PoE
network cards for fibre are (still) a specialist item and priced accordingly, whilst copper networking devices are cheap cheap cheap. if fibre cards were in the same kind of volume production then they'd be nust as cheap. Chickens and eggs.
Underscoring that - until very recently, 10Gb/s fibre and copper cards were about the same price and not long before that, fibre cards were CHEAPER
It doesn't really matter that the optics is converted to electronics internally. An optical tranceiver and a copper tranceiver still tranceivers - and when you buy them in SFP format optical 1GB units are 1/4 the price of copper ones - which should give a pointer to the costs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
