At the same time, Google also recently launched its own fiber optic network to provide Internet access in Kansas City.
That would, of course, only be true if two conditions apply: First, the people who own the fiber optic network are willing to have our armed forces utilize their cable.
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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Teams worked from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. over the past few months to install the fiber optic network, choosing late night hours in order to have minimal impact on bridge traffic.
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We also documented license applications made in both Kansas and Missouri that would allow GOOG to deliver the programming across the 1Gbs fiber optic network it is building out on both sides of the state line in Kansas City.
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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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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.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone 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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Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick, laid underwater fiber optic cable network across the Atlantic Ocean and became a billionaire in 1.5 years.
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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.
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.
In December 1989, Secretary Mosbacher made public statements indicating considerable support for a proposal along the lines of one being advanced by a consortium led by US West to install a fiber optic communications network in the Soviet Union.
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 app economy is centered in the U.S. in no small part because a decade ago we unleashed fiber optic and mobile network investment, and America surged to become a world broadband leader.
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.
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.
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