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The company says its process makes data transmission faster and more reliable than existing fiber-optic systems.
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Companies that make the guts of fiber-optic systems: lasers, filters, amplifiers and multiplexers.
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The new optical networking system should not be seen as a replacement for fiber-optic systems, Szelag added.
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The beauty of fiber optic communications systems is that they are very hard to penetrate - unless, that is, you own the infrastructure and, therefore, have physical control of its cable lines.
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Think along the lines of a special forces unit going deep into enemy territory with embedded geeks in the team, to dig up fibre-optic cable to be able to reach the systems that were supposed to be unreachable.
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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.
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It is equipped with advanced electronic, electro-optic, infrared and laser system technologies, as well as secure radio systems with data links and munitions capacity for 130 different types of weapons configurations.
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