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.
So unless we want to stop technological progress, pinch off our fiber pipes to the world and to each other, and freeze capital, I think the only long-term remedy is education.
There, a piece of hardware called the concentrator unit plucks the data off a fiber-optic network, reformulates it into a signal at 2 to 30 megahertz and injects that signal onto the power line.
While business is good now, major long-haul fiber contracts will likely taper off over the next year as fiber capacity meets demand.
"A meteor could hit this country and bounce right off, there's so much fiber under the ground, " jokes Jim Southworth.
Back in 1994, fiber fever was just taking off.
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It's run entirely off the power that's in that fiber, that was originally collected from the sun, through photosynthesis.
While each fiber eventually suffers a painful drop-off, the next one hits an even higher peak--making a growth business out of a series of declining ones.
" He rattles off consumer products in excess--"autos, fiber optic cable, computers, cell phones, trucks, airplanes, steel, even food.
Veracity bought the fiber system from Provo but couldn't pay off construction bonds and sold it back to the city.
The production model is a polished-looking assemblage of aluminum and judiciously placed titanium and carbon fiber, along with sensors, motors, joints, off-the-shelf DSPs and custom circuitry and software.
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