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On any network connection, whether you're using fiber or copper, the signal will begin to degrade as it goes farther and farther in distance. We call this signal loss attenuation. And if we have too much attenuation on a wire or fiber, we won't be able to hear that signal when it reaches the other side. On any of your networks, you'll have to consider attenuation when you begin engineering and troubleshooting these networks. If these are copper cables, you'll have electrical signals that will attenuate as they move through the cable. If it's a fiber connection, the same thing happens with light. And if these are radio waves on a wireless network, you'll have attenuation as you move farther away from the access point. One way to numerically quantify the signal strength or loss of a signal is to use decibels. A decibel is literally 1/10 of a bell. And if you see that abbreviation of decib