In case you missed it, Google is building a network of fiber optic cables to houses in Kansas City.
The project will tap existing undersea fiber optic cables and communications satellites to transmit information some 100 times faster than currently possible.
Even the most computer-savvy students are impressed by the 40 miles of fiber optic cables that link their studies to almost every subject imaginable.
As John Pletz recently laid out in Crains, Chicago already has more installed fiber optic cables than nearly any metro area in the world.
But with a 95% penetration of the SAR's 1.4 million or so homes, HKT has fiber optic cables a stone's throw from just about every housing block in the territory.
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The internet, telephones, radio and television, communications satellites, and fiber optic cables leading to and from critical installations including underground missile bases at Khorramabad and Isfahan will be taken out of action.
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The orderliness of lasers is what makes them useful for things like storing and relaying information--that's why they can transmit voice and data signals around the world through fiber optic cables.
Shared fiber : The government constructs (or authorizes a private company to construct) a network of fiber optic cables that run from each home in the municipality to a central peering point.
Richard Li needs HKT for its half-a million ISP customers, for its fiber optic cables that circle every narrow Hong Kong alley and for some of its broadband ventures, like Star TV.
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Two Japanese research laboratories -- one affiliated with computer maker Fujitsu and the other with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) -- announced last month that they had succeeded in sending 1 trillion bits or more of information a second through fiber optic cables.
If Li and his friends are considered a safe enough bet to be put in charge of monitoring what is coming into our ports, how could anybody object to fiber optic cables he controls being used as the conduit for classified Defense Department secrets?
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).
As if the nation's overexcited and misguided border vigilantes didn't have enough ways to trigger alarms and bedevil the U.S. Border Patrol (whose job is hard enough as it is), University of Arizona researchers have developed Helios, a monitoring system that uses an acoustic sensor to detect movement via fiber optic cables buried beneath the US-Mexico border.
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One company might own the fiber-optic cables, while another operates the light signals pulsing over that fiber, and a third owns (or more likely rents) the bandwidth encoded in that light.
The computer is hooked up to fiber-optic cables leading to DOT and University of Minnesota networks.
The home projects class, elegance--and a time before computer chips and fiber-optic cables ruled the local land.
Currently researchers do this using fiber-optic cables hardwired into mouse brains, but they are working on wireless setups.
But even the landlines need less human attention because Verizon is rapidly replacing old-fashioned copper lines with lower-maintenance, fiber-optic cables.
Then it discovered it would have an even better future by using some of its pipelines for the laying of fiber-optic cables.
According to one person familiar with the situation, Mukesh has expressed interest in leasing fiber-optic cables from Anil's firm, Reliance Communications Ltd.
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.
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.
Corning (nyse: GLW - news - people), the fiber-optic firm, announced layoffs in its photonic devices unit, which makes devices that send light impulses over fiber-optic cables.
So far the wireless tests have only been conducted over a measly 1m, but the scientists reckon it'll work at distances up to 1km and that the concept could also be used to boost speeds in existing fiber-optic cables.
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In the U.S., Google has deployed its own fiber-optic cables to wire up homes in cities in Kansas with high-speed Internet and video, and it has plans to do the same in cities in Missouri, Texas and Utah and elsewhere.
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And since fiber-optic cables are typically run right along with utility pipes--neither phone nor gas companies want to have their lines cut--it's easy to connect a fiber backbone to the gas pipes at the neighborhood level, and beam a signal the final few feet to each home.
Annual output of optical fibers and optic fiber cables also grew to 25 million kilometers and 15 million kilometers respectively.
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