A crackling rose from around the city as stored energy rushed along the copper cabling.

This is as a result of some thieving swine nicking the copper cabling.

Longer term the company is aiming to displace copper cabling in short reach video applications such as DisplayPort and HDMI.

As Ethernet over copper cabling is made up of twisted telephone wire, it is affordable.

Most building management systems use proprietary copper cabling, as do paging/audio speaker systems.

Certain data-center applications (such as large computer clusters) require the use of fiber-optic interconnects due to the distance and latency limitations inherent in copper cabling.

Handling that many fibers in a point-to-point topology may seem like a problem until the comparison is made with the old equivalent: 100-year old copper cabling for the phone system.

It covers both balanced copper cabling and optical fibre cabling.

Fiber configurations that transition to copper in a street cabinet are generally too far from the users for standard ethernet configurations over existing copper cabling.

Several factors-in particular, costs associated with fiber optic cabling-resulted in the initial version using electrical-only copper cabling.