We have billions of new microprocessors, millions of new miles of fiber-optic glass and a vast new infrastructure of wireless communications.

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The challenge now: a broadly weaker economy that is hurting everything from sales of fiber-optic glass to the filter technology Corning manufactures for diesel automobiles, a business hurt by the popularity of diesel engines in Europe.

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The typical fiber-optic cable now holds 144 strands of glass, enough to accommodate 57.6 terabips.

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That we could make the quality of glass fiber necessary to transmit long-distance signals.

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