Cut all fiber-optic cables at the border?

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We now have 3, 500 kilometers of expressways, all with fiber-optic lines that are the backbone of our communications.

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Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.

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The growing demands of the U.S. military for the bandwidth necessary to transfer in a secure fashion immense quantities of video and other data in real-time to commanders and forces all over the world transform this fiber optic infrastructure being sold by Tyco into something else altogether - a force-multiplier of immeasurable value.

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Because it was too expensive to deploy all the computers needed to serve small local markets, fiber-optic backbones now serve mainly as cross-country thruways, but the shift to optics could let fiber networks extend farther into neighborhoods than ever before.

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It is building an all-Internet network, encompassing 40, 000 miles of newly laid fiber-optic lines--on the cheap.

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Fiber-optic ambient lighting in the load compartment visually extends the line drawn by the center console all the way from the instrument panel through to the rear seats.

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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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