Wharf Cable is switching to a state-of-the art fiber-optic network and revamping its programming mix.
Verizon's Wireline operations provide converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network.
Gaffney, Jr. opposed the proposed transfer of a "vital national asset" - the last American-built and -owned global fiber-optic network.
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Wharf is betting on its fiber-optic network for more than simply cable.
Could the builder of a fiber-optic network do something like that?
While building a fiber-optic network for telecom firm Bharti Airtel, he latched on to Internet services, which were just taking off in India.
It concerns the proposed transfer of a true national asset (at fire-sale prices, no less): the last American-built and -owned global fiber-optic network.
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The city already has a fiber-optic network in place, built in 1995 with the aim of luring Internet service providers to hook up citizens with low-cost Internet.
Once Verizon has built up its fiber-optic network enough to offer direct connections to homes, the company plans to start selling television and movies over those same pipes.
Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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So Verizon , the mega-Baby Bell, has been trying to spend its way to broadband glory, shelling out billions to build a fiber-optic network and to buy telecom rival MCI .
Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500.
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There, a piece of hardware called the concentrator unit plucks the data off a fiber-optic network, reformulates it into a signal at 2 to 30 megahertz and injects that signal onto the power line.
They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
Another story that could have far-reaching and possibly very adverse implications for Indo-American relations went nearly unremarked, however - apart from attention from CNN's Lou Dobbs and his intrepid investigative staff: The impending transfer, at fire-sale prices, of a strategically vital, American-owned global fiber-optic network to an Indian concern with close ties to its government and military.
The company installed 63 additional Private IP edge routers for a total of 915 edge routers in 245 sites throughout 63 countries, activated more than 1, 500 kilometers (932 miles) of ultra-long-haul network across the southern part of the United Kingdom, and completed a joint fiber build in Singapore, which almost doubles the coverage of the Singapore fiber-optic network.
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Installation of a fiber-optic communication network will greatly augment this concerted effort.
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The satellite and fiber-optic communication network, which has so far spread to 12 countries on the continent, is designed to provide connectivity between Indian institutions and 54 African countries, as well as facilitating easy video-conferencing among heads of states across Africa.
For example, Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher has publicly expressed his support for a plan being developed by U S West to install a fiber-optic telecommunications network across the Soviet Union an action that would greatly enhance the survivability and security of Soviet military communications.
"For example, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher should immediately reexamine advice he evidently is receiving to the effect that a proposal by U S West to install a fiber-optic telecommunications network in the USSR would be acceptable provided it utilizes less than state-of-the-art fiber-optic technology, " Gaffney noted.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
It is building an all-Internet network, encompassing 40, 000 miles of newly laid fiber-optic lines--on the cheap.
Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.
Level 3, one of the biggest owners of fiber-optic cables, recently bought part of Savvis' network business, making it perhaps Akamai's closest rival.
The material uses what the researchers are calling 'shape-memory' polymers and have a fiber optic network embedded within them which acts as the damage sensor as well as the heat delivery system.
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The deal would transform the relatively primitive Soviet telephone network into one utilizing high technology fiber-optic cable and switching equipment.
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