The Internet's earliest development stretched back to 1969, but Smarr helped speed its development by building the National Science Foundation's fiber backbone.
Ad hoc Wi-Fi networks can stretch the fabric of Internet connectivity, cheaply and painlessly, over any community to points where traffic is aggregated onto high-speed fiber backbone networks.
It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
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.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
Others say fixed-line operators, especially those that have a strong fiber optic backbone in place, are better bets because they are players in the broadband services game -- offering pay TV, video-on-demand, home shopping and banking as well high-speed Internet access.
In the next 20 years nowhere in Asia, apart from Hong Kong and Singapore, will you have a fully fiber-optic wired backbone in place.
We now have 3, 500 kilometers of expressways, all with fiber-optic lines that are the backbone of our communications.
The Denver-based communications company is laying approximately 18, 500 miles of Macro Capacity Fiber Network, an all-digital backbone that will connect over 130 cities by this March.
Using Thinkid, Case changed the bike's backbone from an unwieldy 4-inch-wide aluminum tube to a seamless carbon fiber piece weighing 14 pounds.
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