• borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    The strands are still glass though, and have a much wider maximum bend radius than something like CAT* cable.

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      6 months ago

      Did you watch the video? He’s wrapping fiber optic cable over a 10mm mandrel with no problems and it’s causing no loss. The video is 10 years old at this point too, we’ve probably progressed further with technology.