Annual output of optical fibers and optic fiber cables also grew to 25 million kilometers and 15 million kilometers respectively.

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The project will tap existing undersea fiber optic cables and communications satellites to transmit information some 100 times faster than currently possible.

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Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mishmash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.

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Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mish-mash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.

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The home projects class, elegance--and a time before computer chips and fiber-optic cables ruled the local land.

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And since fiber-optic cables are typically run right along with utility pipes--neither phone nor gas companies want to have their lines cut--it's easy to connect a fiber backbone to the gas pipes at the neighborhood level, and beam a signal the final few feet to each home.

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The computer is hooked up to fiber-optic cables leading to DOT and University of Minnesota networks.

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One company might own the fiber-optic cables, while another operates the light signals pulsing over that fiber, and a third owns (or more likely rents) the bandwidth encoded in that light.

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It is also a force in digital loop carriers, which convert multiple voice calls into a single digital signal and can use either copper or fiber-optic cables.

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The orderliness of lasers is what makes them useful for things like storing and relaying information--that's why they can transmit voice and data signals around the world through fiber optic cables.

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Richard Li needs HKT for its half-a million ISP customers, for its fiber optic cables that circle every narrow Hong Kong alley and for some of its broadband ventures, like Star TV.

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So far the wireless tests have only been conducted over a measly 1m, but the scientists reckon it'll work at distances up to 1km and that the concept could also be used to boost speeds in existing fiber-optic cables.

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In the U.S., Google has deployed its own fiber-optic cables to wire up homes in cities in Kansas with high-speed Internet and video, and it has plans to do the same in cities in Missouri, Texas and Utah and elsewhere.

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