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Originally Posted by redpoint5
The secondary benefit is is eliminating latency over copper, which is about 100x slower than light in a vacuum.
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Nope, electricity travels at a high fraction of c through copper, but I believe inductance of the wire itself limits bandwidth which is why fiber optics are preferred. Latency reduction comes from reducing the distance the signal has to travel through, since the speed of light through air is close enough to the speed of light in vacuum.