The fiber-optic technology is fantastically complex and dependent on the latest materials and computing technology.
's bold video-on-demand experiment with an eye toward investing in the fiber-optic technology that made it work.
What's happening here is that as a result of the development of fiber-optic communications technology, many middle-income jobs are being outsourced to other countries.
What is more, it is only prudent to expect that, in the present environment, more rather than less sophisticated fiber optic and switching technology will be actually be utilized in any deal that goes forward.
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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Apply the relevant laws and you'll have a pretty accurate idea where microprocessor performance, PC usage, display technology, fiber optic bandwidth, wireless PDAs, games, the Web, etc. will be two, three and five years from now.
Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.
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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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Information technology is a relatively safe sector but fiber-optic gear outfit Ciena is four times as risky as the market as a whole.
But you can think of, say, a fiber-optic-equipment company as a call option on the possibility that its particular technology will beat out rival technologies.
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.
Levin says Wall Street is also wary of fiber-optic networks because they may wind up facing competition from emerging wireless technologies such as WIMAX, a wireless technology that promises to deliver broadband over great distances.
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