But you are also getting a call option on the possibility that Viacom will sell a lot of premium services to its cable subscribers, using fiber-optic cable it has already laid in the ground.
Bernstein reported cable, satellite and fiber-optic providers had actually added 677, 000 customers in the first quarter of 2010.
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The typical fiber-optic cable now holds 144 strands of glass, enough to accommodate 57.6 terabips.
What matters is not the quantity of fiber-optic cable but the quality, or rather its productivity.
Silicon speaks the language of electrons, but fiber-optic cable uses the language of photons.
As a recent article explained, exchanges are building microwave towers in order to avoid fiber-optic cable.
The RFP included constructing some 255 towers and digging up sidewalks to string fiber-optic cable.
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It does a thriving business in directional-drilling equipment used, among other things, to lay fiber-optic cable.
Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
Dozens of companies are laying fiber-optic cable around the world, leading some to talk of a looming bandwidth glut.
Fiber-optic cable can carry many times as much data as traditional copper wiring.
The deal would transform the relatively primitive Soviet telephone network into one utilizing high technology fiber-optic cable and switching equipment.
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Just as we experienced with the fiber-optic cable build-out, there was soon too much railroad capacity, and freight prices fell.
In the late 1980s Anschutz got contracts from the likes of MCI to lay fiber-optic cable along his railroads' rights of way.
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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Paul Leonard is the manager of Upper Dublin Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, says he recently discovered through happenstance that there's a major fiber-optic cable running just yards from his office.
With this the driller can create 4-D images (three dimensions plus time) of oil reservoirs via a seismic vibration sensor attached to the end of a fiber-optic cable pushed down into a well.
Worldcom was one of the first carriers to deploy a newfangled technology called "dense wavelength division multiplexing" (FORBES, Oct. 7, 1997) that greatly increases the amount of traffic an existing fiber-optic cable can carry.
But unlike the last build-out, when companies buried thousands of miles of long-haul fiber-optic cable under the sea and across continents, today's construction is focused more on connecting local homes and businesses with faster Internet pipes.
Cable, satellite and now fiber-optic TV have long-since outpaced the over-the-air broadcasters in innovation, giving nearly all Americans the option of hundreds of channels of diverse content, on-demand movies and other programming, time-shifting, interactive features and bundled services.
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But since 1995, that simple anatomy has given way to several separate backbones -- thousands of miles of extremely-high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable owned by the likes of Sprint, GTE, IBM, and MCI WorldCom, connecting major metropolitan areas all over the country.
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" He rattles off consumer products in excess--"autos, fiber optic cable, computers, cell phones, trucks, airplanes, steel, even food.
Wharf is betting on its fiber-optic network for more than simply cable.
Wharf Cable is switching to a state-of-the art fiber-optic network and revamping its programming mix.
While cable firms have been winning the war for broadband subscribers, Verizon is launching fiber-optic service in New York City, a top TWC market.
In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
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