We ran a wire cable between two trees, about twenty feet off the ground, and attached a pulley to it.
Meanwhile, data for May has shown copper and wire cable shipments rising 18% year on year to the construction sector, although down 21% to the auto sector.
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Last month some rather more organised criminals lifted 2km of copper wire and cable between Hanover and Hamburg.
People don't realize that lead is all over their homes in a wide variety of products, particularly in things like extension cords and wire and cable, your holiday string lights when you're stringing them up this year, you'll probably see a warning label that says that the product contains lead, known to be a toxic chemical in the state of California.
There was tragedy in Italy in February as a US military jet cut the wire of a cable car in the Dolomites, killing 20 skiers.
The U.S. Attorney's Office now blames six ex-Anicom executives for sinking the former Rosemont, Ill. distributor of cable, wire, networking and fiber-optic parts.
It costs less than ISDN or T1 lines, it flows over existing copper wire and, unlike cable, its bandwidth doesn't diminish as more neighbors hop onboard.
Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.
Shuttling between the opposing camps is Kate Sullivan, a young lawyer with a devious mind and good legs: she represents the wire-and-cable company, but she and Larry are manipulative soul mates, and in the course of negotiations their enthusiastic gamesmanship evolves into a weird kind of courtship.
"This includes wire for video, which is the coax wire, and that runs the cable television on it. (And) a data line, which runs data to the upstairs as well as the telephone, " home technology consultant George Ide said.
With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.
It's also providing copper cable networks for the "last mile" of installed wire from central switches to homes and businesses, and products that help increase bandwidth, maintain signal integrity and optimize wavelength.
Google, the Internet search giant that wants to wire Kansas City like no other place, is reportedly pondering a jump into the cable TV business.
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But while photons have to be transmitted over fiberoptic cable which is too bulky to be a computer component, plamons can be transmitted over wire, just like those used for traditional electronics.
Whether it's phone wire used for dial-up and digital subscriber lines (DSL), or the coaxial cables that carry cable modem connections, these connections are a bottleneck between the carrier's big pipes and your bandwidth-starved computer.
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