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Fiber vs Copper from the Telcom

Asked by Indy_IT_Admin in Voice Over IP

Tags: fiber, vs, copper, t1, vs.

We are moving buildings and consequently looking to move phone carriers.  We are in contract with our current phone company but are looking to prepare for the future in our phone service.  We have a couple of satilite offices that are either not connected to the main office or connect through a VPN (very slow). Currently we have 23 POTS and 1 T1 (DS1) circuit.
For the immediate term we are looking to switch to a PRI with an internet connection 2Mb for PRI and 4Mb for Internet as well as having a 10Mb direct circuit to a co-location facility to house offsite backup and perhaps mirrored servers in the future.  This will run on VOIP and adventually we will get a new phone system to run dynamic bandwidth over the first connection and bump up the 10Mb direct circuit to accomidate mirroring of servers.  Internally we will be running CAT 6.

What I am wondering is what are the advantages of using Fiber in this case as opposed to Copper?  What can fiber do that Copper cannot?

The company we are looking at switching to will install an Ethernet Circuit for both the VOIP & Internet connection as well as a Metro Ethernet circuit for the co-lo.  This company has mentioned that I need a SLA which includes QoS and CoS to guarantee I receive the benefits of a Metro Ethernet type of solution  Being somewhat new at this technology I am uncertain about the importance of these and if they can be offered on copper.  In other words, I said "HUH?" while scratching my head.

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