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.
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.
Such techniques have pushed the cost of carrying traffic on fiber down to about 1% of what it would cost on all-electronic equipment, and it will keep falling.
In effect, Skype has created a worldwide voice network, capable of reaching as many consumers as the biggest phone companies, but it has done it without laying down a single fiber-optic wire.
Current "muxes" typically can push up to 100 light waves down a single fiber, but by year-end Nortel will begin shipping test gear that pushes 160 lightwaves, each carrying 10 billion bits of data per second.
Current "muxes" typically can push up to 100 light waves down a single fiber, but by year-end Nortel will begin shipping test gear that pushes 160 lightwaves, each carrying 10 billion bits of data a second.
In the next couple of years, the same factors of supply and demand that sent up prices of food and fiber will send them down.
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.
Mr. FOODY: And they found a fungus that produced a chemical called an enzyme that would break all sorts of fiber, cotton, clothes tents, down into sugar.
Instead of putting down trunk lines between major cities, however, CapRock will lay fiber to overlooked destinations such as San Angelo (pop. 93, 000) and Nacogdoches, Tex. (pop. 31, 188).
Built mostly for rich British yachtsmen before World War I, the last of these boats are being hunted down and restored by sailors who are tired of modern carbon-fiber speedsters.
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.
Instead of putting down trunk lines between major cities, however, CapRock will lay fiber to overlooked destinations -- for example, smaller Texas cities such as San Angelo (pop. 93, 000) and Nacogdoches (pop. 31, 188).
The bike literally glided down the street, springing buoyantly across potholes with stiffness akin to a carbon fiber chassis.
As long as relevant data continue to support it, that conviction may have us holding fast to our fiber shares in expectation of further financial improvement among the many heretofore sorely beaten-down names.
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