This great picture courtesy of Diamond Williams. 

For those of you who have thought of getting into the fiber world but think that fiber is too fragile.  Diamond said he has the replacement cable but he just "Loves that this cable still works". 

Fiber Optic cable though basically glass tubes is much more resilient than you might think.  Over the last 10 years of selling fiber we have very few problems with it breaking. 

Of course the guy who ran over the fiber with a forklift had to replace it.  But during standard installations we have seen most fiber hold up well.