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What are the benefits of MM over SM ?

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Question added by Hesham Al-zagh , مهندس مشاريع , مؤسسة عادل القريشي للانظمة الامنية
Date Posted: 2016/11/22

Normally MM cable cable for short distance & SM used for long distance,cost of MM cable is higher than SM Cable ,other side SM FO equipments are much higher than MM.

Marcelito Serna
by Marcelito Serna , IT/Network Specialist , Al Nakheel Agriculture

Single mode cable uses a laser as a light source and it is perfect and a lot faster on  long distance telecommunications.

 

Multimode cable works perfect on a single and closer building.

Mohammad Zeidan
by Mohammad Zeidan , Training , OGERO TELECOM

Multi Mode Fiber optics offer higher bandwidth and higher sped and thus give a better performance.

Salman Mansour
by Salman Mansour , Communication & Information Technology Manger , The Palestinian Legislative Council

MM is used for communication within a short distance and it's cheapest than SM

SM is used for long distance communication and required special equipment

Multi mode cable works perfect on a single and closer building.and Single mode cable uses a laser as a light source and it is perfect and a lot faster on  long distance telecommunications

rajeev ganguly
by rajeev ganguly , site engineer , stpl

multimode type of fiber are today using for better bandwidth and cheap costing in short typedistance and single mode is used to forward log distance transmission but installation and maintenance is tough.

Jeffrey Magtalas
by Jeffrey Magtalas , Senior network technician as passive unit , AL-Moammar Information Systems Co

multi-mode only short distances 

single mode for long distances 

Muhammad Irfan Khan
by Muhammad Irfan Khan , Senior Network Engineer , Cyber Internet Services Pvt Ltd

MM is used for faster communication within a short distance and SM are used for long distance communication.

Taona Dominic Tapfumaneyi
by Taona Dominic Tapfumaneyi , Field Technician , BCBussines solutions

multi mode carries more chanels over a shorter distance hence total thoroughput is higher than singlemode while SM caries one channel at a time and transmit at a longer distance

Syed Abid Hussain
by Syed Abid Hussain , National Backbone planning & installation , Ooredoo Myanmar Ltd.

Normally MM cable cable for short distance and SM used for long distance,in telecommunication mostly SM cable is used where as in IT MM cables are Mostly used. cost of MM cable is higher than SM Cable ,other side SM FO equipments are much higher than MM.

Multimode Advantages. ... Like singlemodemultimode fiber provides high bandwidth at high speeds, but transmission is limited to shorter distances than singlemode.

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