The campuses of eight universities, one in each UEMOA country, will be equipped with fibre optic equipment and at least 200 computers with high-speed connection.

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In today's decision, a group of shareholders accused Tellabs , a maker of fiber-optic equipment, and its former chief executive, Richard Notebaert, of knowingly misleading investors about the company's deteriorating financial position.

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With the blessing of El Paso Chairman William Wise , Jenkins plans to buy fiber-optic equipment, metropolitan communications loops and even "telco hotels" stuffed with switches that allow customers to select among many competing carriers.

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In today's decision, a group of shareholders accused Tellabs (nasdaq: TLAB - news - people ), a maker of fiber-optic equipment, and its former chief executive, Richard Notebaert, of knowingly misleading investors about the company's deteriorating financial position.

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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.

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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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Gartner sees the wireless corporate network market growing at a compound annual rate of 18.4% from 2011 to 2016, and the market for high-speed fiber-optic Internet-access equipment growing at a compound annual rate of 12.1% from 2010 to 2014.

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It does a thriving business in directional-drilling equipment used, among other things, to lay fiber-optic cable.

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