This technological advancement has helped Futong increase its production capacity of optic fiber preforms to 600 tons a year.
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Annual output of optical fibers and optic fiber cables also grew to 25 million kilometers and 15 million kilometers respectively.
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By 2010, Futong controlled 23% of the Chinese optic fiber market.
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Fiber optic cable is not vulnerable to EMP, but the switches and controls that use microelectronics in conjunction with the fiber optic cable need to be protected.
Fiber optic cable is not vulnerable to EMP, but the switches and controls that use microelectronics in conjunction with the fiber optic cable are, and should be protected.
Corning (nyse: GLW - news - people), the fiber-optic firm, announced layoffs in its photonic devices unit, which makes devices that send light impulses over fiber-optic cables.
And if hedging your bets on a untested service has you wary of signing on the dotted line, the search giant's also arranged for prospective subs to demo its fiber optic wares at the appropriately dubbed Fiber Space.
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Telecom gear maker MRV Communications sold shares in its fiber-optic unit, Luminent, when fiber was humming.
In countries like the Philippines and Indonesia fiber optic in every home is science fiction.
That information leaves the phone traveling as a light beam moving through fiber optic networks.
From 2002 to late 2007 the capacity utilization of undersea fiber optic cable barely moved.
You can fit 100% of Netflix streaming at peak time in one fiber optic cable.
Among recent victims are U.S. exporters to China of automobiles, fiber optic cable, chicken, grain, and paper.
Until now, the solution for greater speed has been to simply keep laying more fiber optic lines.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will significantly reduce overall EMP vulnerability.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will reduce overall EMP vulnerability significantly.
To suggest, however, that everyone in America needs a fiber optic gigabit Internet connection today is beyond simplistic.
" He rattles off consumer products in excess--"autos, fiber optic cable, computers, cell phones, trucks, airplanes, steel, even food.
How does the state know which residences should have a fiber optic connection?
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Terabeam's lasers can race along at speeds as fast as fiber optic cable.
In case you missed it, Google is building a network of fiber optic cables to houses in Kansas City.
Shares in two other component makers, much larger Bookham and tiny Alliance Fiber Optic Products, rose 13% and 6%, respectively.
The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
What is the time it takes part of a problem to move over a fiber optic connection between data centers?
Consumers can switch between cable, fiber optic broadband or ADSL without having to reconfigure their home network or replace their router.
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Installing a fiber optic cable is admittedly much less disruptive than building a new freeway, but the principle is the same.
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During the 1970s they squeezed a stream of digital information into a fiber optic wire the width of a human hair.
There, American teachers provide real-time video English lessons to thousands of students in classrooms across Asia via high-speed fiber optic networks.
The project will tap existing undersea fiber optic cables and communications satellites to transmit information some 100 times faster than currently possible.
There are sound reasons why long-distance telephone, television and Internet long ago moved from satellites to terrestrial microwave and then fiber optic.
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