There is a drastic change in the transmission speeds of fiber optic cables and traditional copper wires, in fact, it is unparallel. This change is because of the materials they are built with. The change is completely inherent.

In fiber optic cable networks, data travel nearly at the speed of light. Fiber optic cable is only 31% slower than the speed of light. Photons travel very fast making the data transmission, both upload and download very fast. A multimode fiber optic cable can speed up to 10 Gbps for 550 meters and same can go to 40kms for single-mode cable.