How to shove an elephant through a thread of copper or fiber-optic light that is the dilemma facing the managers of Siam Cement these days.
It is also a force in digital loop carriers, which convert multiple voice calls into a single digital signal and can use either copper or fiber-optic cables.
Even the best upcoming broadband wireless technologies from the telcos are nowhere near the 100Mbit or better I can get from from telco to get to the Internet, nor are they as reliable as copper or fiber, and they are orders of magnitude more expensive.
Verizon has been replacing high-maintenance portions of its residential copper network with fiber optics to provide enhanced services and to reduce ongoing repair costs.
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Since LIPA is a regulated monopoly, the company has no pressure from competitors to modernize by investing in new technologies and new ways of distributing electricity unlike the case of Verizon (NYSE:VZ), which in the last decade had to replace 100 years old copper wires with fiber optic cables to fend-off competition from Cable Vision (NYSE:CVC).
In Brazil, through copper cable-maker Madeco, they own a majority of fiber optics and copper cable maker Ficap.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will significantly reduce overall EMP vulnerability.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will reduce overall EMP vulnerability significantly.
They claim to have a magic box, a variation of a telecommunications switch that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile, that final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
They claim that they will have a magic box of telecommunications hardware and software that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile: the final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
Yes, optical fiber would replace copper, but only at very great expense.
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There are four mediums to think about: copper, air, cable and fiber--listed here from slowest to fastest.
Copper is expensive, but optical fiber is replacing a lot of it.
Carriers eager to retire legacy copper networks in favor of the fiber and wireless solutions that would natively transmit all information using Internet protocols may still need FCC permission to change or discontinue services even when better and cheaper alternatives are being offered.
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But even the landlines need less human attention because Verizon is rapidly replacing old-fashioned copper lines with lower-maintenance, fiber-optic cables.
Izzo credits the "spider web" like network of copper wire, paired with coaxial and fiber crossing underneath city streets, for the network's durability.
Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mish-mash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.
Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mishmash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.
Arbitrarily lowering the regulated price of the copper network would kneecap the competitive price umbrella for fiber broadband service thus destroying the economic return on investment case needed to fund the fiber upgrade?
Take an old telephone company: The CEO knows that his future lies with fiber optics and the Internet, not with copper wires and circuit switches.
Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.
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Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.
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Optical technologies have revolutionized long-distance communications, replacing low-capacity copper wiring that carries electrical signals with combinations of lasers and fiber-optic cabling that send information over many high-speed channels.
Fiber-optic cable can carry many times as much data as traditional copper wiring.
Why should competitors build innovative, ultra high-speed fiber networks that would provide real competition when the government is giving them a break on copper wire?
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In 2012, Verizon migrated 223, 000 homes to fiber, which contributed to an 11 percent improvement in trouble reports across Verizon's entire copper network for the year.
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