The company is also working on equipment to serve pure fiber systems, which would make DSL obsolete.
The company says its process makes data transmission faster and more reliable than existing fiber-optic systems.
Companies that make the guts of fiber-optic systems: lasers, filters, amplifiers and multiplexers.
The new optical networking system should not be seen as a replacement for fiber-optic systems, Szelag added.
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.
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.
The beauty of fiber optic communications systems is that they are very hard to penetrate - unless, that is, you own the infrastructure and, therefore, have physical control of its cable lines.
Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.
They could collaborate on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure standards, new power lines, fiber to the home, roads, bridges, airports, satellite systems, toll roads and more.
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If a city were to try to go it alone, it would have to make huge investments in back-end systems to provide all of these services, to run the fiber directly to the homes, and in-home devices.
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The 787, the first jetliner made from a majority of lightweight carbon fiber composites, eliminates hot, heavy and hard-to-maintain pneumatic systems that power key parts of the jet.
The plane represented a big bet on new technology for Boeing: The plane's lightweight frame was to be built using mostly carbon-fiber composites, and it was to have an enhanced electrical system to power more systems and use less fuel than other jets.
In its most recent annual report on mobile competition, the FCC described consumer mobile services as being shaped by an increasingly dynamic ecosystem, which includes not only the carriers but also handset manufacturers, operating systems developers, app providers and competition among broadband providers offering different technologies, including mobile, fiber, cable, and satellite networks.
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