The prices for devices on Amazon aren’t significantly different for switches, although if your devices are all ethernet (and they probably are) then you have to add the cost of the trancievers. Still, cheap switches are comparable, and the enterprise stuff jumps up an other of magnitude on both sides.
If more devices came with fiber sockets, it’d be cheaper to run fiber just for the cable price difference.
It does seem there’s more diversity in fiber that might make consumer standardization harder. There’s single vs multi-mode cabling, SC and LC connectors, simplex and duplex, and even the polishing types aren’t all incompatible. So, there aren’t any clear choices to offer to clients, and it’d be more confusing for many consumers. Ethernet is, basically, ethernet, unless you’re a network engineer chasing specs.
The prices for devices on Amazon aren’t significantly different for switches, although if your devices are all ethernet (and they probably are) then you have to add the cost of the trancievers. Still, cheap switches are comparable, and the enterprise stuff jumps up an other of magnitude on both sides.
If more devices came with fiber sockets, it’d be cheaper to run fiber just for the cable price difference.
It does seem there’s more diversity in fiber that might make consumer standardization harder. There’s single vs multi-mode cabling, SC and LC connectors, simplex and duplex, and even the polishing types aren’t all incompatible. So, there aren’t any clear choices to offer to clients, and it’d be more confusing for many consumers. Ethernet is, basically, ethernet, unless you’re a network engineer chasing specs.