Natural Science Forum / Physics / Optics / September 2004

Hi,

I'm a real newbie when it comes to working with fiber optics, but I want
to do some testing of some Gigabit ethernet equipment, and was looking
for a patch cable.  I was in a local Microcenter today, and noticed that
they carried some SC-to-SC cables such as the following:

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0163916

In the above page, it says "You can get nearly unlimited high-speed
bandwidth at speeds up to 100Mbps".

This cable is 62.5 multimode, and the patch cable is 2 meters.  

Shouldn't that be able to carry over 2Gbits/sec?

Thanks in advance,
Jim