Building a unique global network of optical fiber, they learned the perils of debt in a deflationary market.
Of the two labs, Fujitsu achieved the fastest transmission rate of 1.1 terabits per second, which were sent 150 kilometers over a single strand of optical fiber.
SingTel would rescue some of its pride, and get a share of Time dotCom, which has laid 3, 600 kms. of optical fiber through the length and breadth of peninsular Malaysia -- Singapore's hinterland.
Analysts said that Futong achieved a breakthrough in the manufacturing of optical fiber preform, the core raw material for optical fiber production, and is the first enterprise in China that can make this material with the latest all-synthesis technology.
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Li Fei, analyst for Dagong Global Credit Rating Company and author of the bond rating report, told FORBES that optical fiber preform is the upstream product of the optical fiber industry and requires high technical content in its manufacturing techniques.
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ITU's development of technical standards, alongside the work of others, has played a key role in enabling connectivity and interoperability in today's powerful technologies of mobile including optical fiber, television, video compression, mobile, broadband and Internet.
Annual output of optical fibers and optic fiber cables also grew to 25 million kilometers and 15 million kilometers respectively.
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Copper is expensive, but optical fiber is replacing a lot of it.
Replace all of it with new optical machines that work in the realm of photons--no translation required--and fiber-optics capacity will expand even more.
Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.
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All-optical routers that can manipulate packets of light, pulling some signals off a fiber and sending the rest on their way, may not be widely available for years.
By 1980 carriers used fiber to carry data and voice calls as optical signals in the form of photons.
After analyzing optical brightening techniques used on the prints and scrutinizing the corporate logos and fiber composition of the paper, Mattis' team proved most of the photos could not have been made before the 1950s, long after Hine's death.
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