Wharf Cable is switching to a state-of-the art fiber-optic network and revamping its programming mix.
But David Wong, who follows the optic network industry for PaineWebber, doesn't doubt the deal.
Verizon's Wireline operations provide converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network.
Between them, Japan's ten regional electricity suppliers own the second-largest fibre-optic network in the country, measuring 160, 000 kilometres and growing.
Gaffney, Jr. opposed the proposed transfer of a "vital national asset" - the last American-built and -owned global fiber-optic network.
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At the same time, Google also recently launched its own fiber optic network to provide Internet access in Kansas City.
BSES's fibre-optic network in Mumbai seems to be part of the attraction.
Wharf is betting on its fiber-optic network for more than simply cable.
Could the builder of a fiber-optic network do something like that?
While building a fiber-optic network for telecom firm Bharti Airtel, he latched on to Internet services, which were just taking off in India.
It concerns the proposed transfer of a true national asset (at fire-sale prices, no less): the last American-built and -owned global fiber-optic network.
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Linked into the city's new fibre optic network, WiBro promises to deliver broadband mobile data speeds far in excess of most western 3G services.
The city already has a fiber-optic network in place, built in 1995 with the aim of luring Internet service providers to hook up citizens with low-cost Internet.
Once Verizon has built up its fiber-optic network enough to offer direct connections to homes, the company plans to start selling television and movies over those same pipes.
Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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That would, of course, only be true if two conditions apply: First, the people who own the fiber optic network are willing to have our armed forces utilize their cable.
So Verizon , the mega-Baby Bell, has been trying to spend its way to broadband glory, shelling out billions to build a fiber-optic network and to buy telecom rival MCI .
The material uses what the researchers are calling 'shape-memory' polymers and have a fiber optic network embedded within them which acts as the damage sensor as well as the heat delivery system.
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Teams worked from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. over the past few months to install the fiber optic network, choosing late night hours in order to have minimal impact on bridge traffic.
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Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500.
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It installed more than 20, 000 smart meters, connected them via a fibre-optic network, launched a website to track power use and has started to offer pricing plans that encourage shifting consumption to off-peak hours.
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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.
We also documented license applications made in both Kansas and Missouri that would allow GOOG to deliver the programming across the 1Gbs fiber optic network it is building out on both sides of the state line in Kansas City.
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They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
The company installed 63 additional Private IP edge routers for a total of 915 edge routers in 245 sites throughout 63 countries, activated more than 1, 500 kilometers (932 miles) of ultra-long-haul network across the southern part of the United Kingdom, and completed a joint fiber build in Singapore, which almost doubles the coverage of the Singapore fiber-optic network.
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The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
Installation of a fiber-optic communication network will greatly augment this concerted effort.
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Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick, laid underwater fiber optic cable network across the Atlantic Ocean and became a billionaire in 1.5 years.
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In December 1989, Secretary Mosbacher made public statements indicating considerable support for a proposal along the lines of one being advanced by a consortium led by US West to install a fiber optic communications network in the Soviet Union.
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