Its most recent crash, a result of relying on fiber optics during the telecom bust, was its most painful.
Such techniques have pushed the cost of carrying traffic on fiber down to about 1% of what it would cost on all-electronic equipment, and it will keep falling.
Communications capacity on fiber optics will double every 6 months.
Its 25 people include a PhD in Electrical Engineering who is an expert on fiber optics, an aerospace engineer, and a computer scientist with a string of entrepreneurial successes in his wake.
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Wharf is betting on its fiber-optic network for more than simply cable.
Pistorius, known as the "Blade Runner" for competing on carbon fiber blades fitted to the stumps of his amputated legs, says he thought Steenkamp was an intruder.
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The Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, known as the "Blade Runner" for competing on carbon fiber blades fitted to the stumps of his amputated legs, said he thought Steenkamp was an intruder.
The Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, known as the "Blade Runner" for competing on carbon fiber blades fitted to the stumps of his amputated legs, says he thought Steenkamp was an intruder.
Money, reduced to bits on a fiber optic wire, could now be moved from account to account, country to country, in microseconds...so quickly that it rarely ever even needs to precipitate into actual currency.
Issufo Nurmamade, the owner of a cotton company called SANAM in the city of Nampula, says he hasn't made a profit on cotton fiber in three years, and his business is only staying afloat because he produces and markets cottonseed oil for the domestic market.
Edison tried 1, 600 materials before settling on carbonized cotton fiber as the filament for his electric light bulb.
In America, "cycling is something you do in man-made fibers on carbon-fiber wonderbikes, " said Colville-Anderson.
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The biggest firms spend billions on their massive fiber infrastructures, and it is simply good business to pass along costs and earn a respectable return.
Pistorius runs on special carbon fiber blades, hence the nickname.
And though Global billed itself as a network operator, it lacked big corporate clients and acted more like a construction company, dependent on laying new fiber to sell to carriers.
Pistorius, whose legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old due to a bone defect, runs on special carbon fiber blades from which his nickname "The Blade Runner" derives.
Our Broadband Acceleration Initiative has reduced barriers to network buildout by lowering the cost of stringing new fiber on utility poles and reducing wait times to get approval for new cell towers.
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Unlike the concept car, the two-seat production version, based on a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic monocoque, will feature a manual roof system with removable panels that can be stored in the front luggage compartment.
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Prior to running his nation's final leg of Friday's relay final, Pistorius -- who runs on special carbon fiber prosthetic limbs and was once prevented from competing against able-bodied athletes -- had made history as the first double amputee athlete to compete in the Olympics.
It does make for a device that's easy to hold in one hand securely, with no worries about it slipping and falling, but it lacks the premium look and feel of the tapered carbon-fiber back on the 9900, and even the faux leather on the 9700.
Arbitrarily lowering the regulated price of the copper network would kneecap the competitive price umbrella for fiber broadband service thus destroying the economic return on investment case needed to fund the fiber upgrade?
The company is also working on equipment to serve pure fiber systems, which would make DSL obsolete.
He ran at the London 2012 Olympics on specially fitted carbon-fiber blades, which may enhance his performance.
Like most great breakthroughs, fiber optics rest on a simple enough idea.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
You can still find Davis on his bike, usually on the fancy carbon-fiber city commuter he got from his son.
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The other 85 went bankrupt, were liquidated, were acquired or were left behind as the economy rushed ahead on its threads of glass fiber.
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