To avoid constipation, your doctor might recommend a fiber-rich diet or use of stool softeners.
Pepsi-Cola in Japan launches a fiber-infused iteration of its cola drink on Tuesday.
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Winnick, a former bond trader with Drexel Burnham, became a fiber czar serendipitously.
In large swaths of this country, the incumbent cable operator faces a fiber-based telco offering triple-play packages.
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To suggest, however, that everyone in America needs a fiber optic gigabit Internet connection today is beyond simplistic.
How does the state know which residences should have a fiber optic connection?
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In the mid-1990s Ciena, Lucent and Nortel introduced boxes that vastly increased the volume of data a fiber can carry.
What is the time it takes part of a problem to move over a fiber optic connection between data centers?
Installing a fiber optic cable is admittedly much less disruptive than building a new freeway, but the principle is the same.
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During the 1970s they squeezed a stream of digital information into a fiber optic wire the width of a human hair.
Installation of a fiber-optic communication network will greatly augment this concerted effort.
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Replace the ordnance with a fiber-optic laser and you can destroy 60mm mortar rounds 500 yards away, as Raytheon demonstrated last June.
Could the builder of a fiber-optic network do something like that?
Wizards at Lucent and Nortel can zap--in one second--6 trillion bits of information down a fiber strand the width of a human hair.
While building a fiber-optic network for telecom firm Bharti Airtel, he latched on to Internet services, which were just taking off in India.
The light itself comes out of four LEDs that pass through a fiber optic glass designed to distribute the light evenly throughout the screen.
But you can think of, say, a fiber-optic-equipment company as a call option on the possibility that its particular technology will beat out rival technologies.
Use acetone nail polish remover and a fiber-free cosmetic cotton pad to remove oils and debris, which can cause chipping and peeling of nail polish.
Google is already operating a fiber-optic system in Kansas City, Mo.
All-optical routers that can manipulate packets of light, pulling some signals off a fiber and sending the rest on their way, may not be widely available for years.
If any company can create a fiber futures market, it would be Enron, which has pioneered in the trading of electricity and even weather hedges (FORBES, July 6, 1998).
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.
To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.
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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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Apple has embedded a fiber-optic lighting system to illuminate the keyboard and bolstered it with sensors that can tell when the ambient light in the room begins to dim.
The biopsies can be done through an endoscopy, in which a fiber-optic tube is placed in the mouth and down into the small bowel or through some even less invasive procedures.
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 .
Turns out they recently installed a fiber optic link to the studio at the school and local station -- and CNN affiliate -- WWL is evacuating their operation to that studio.
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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This merger is about buying the lines that connect to the homes of BellSouth customers and selling them everything you can squeeze down a fiber-optic line, including television, Internet, movies and music.
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