Like DNA sequencing, fiber-optic systems provide data for months after installation, if the fiber remains intact, but their biggest downside is cost.

和DNA测序一样，光纤系统安装完毕后，在设备完好的情况下可以几个月持续性传输数据，但是最大的缺点是成本高。

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An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems, has received a $3.5 million government grant to develop the world's first automated, high-precision, laser tracking technology.

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

Dr.Craig Smith,the chief executive of Electro Optic Systems, says laser beams fired from the ground could protect astronauts and satellites by targeting space junk that travels at potentially devastating speeds.

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

In between he spoke of helping one-industry towns, raising pension benefits, enticing migr and foreign scientists, building housing for veterans, constructing roads, central bank lending,elimination of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, fighting drug addiction, encouraging sports, laying fiber optic cables, bringing the Internet to faraway regions and GPS systems to automobiles.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The company says its process makes data transmission faster and more reliable than existing fiber-optic systems.

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The new optical networking system should not be seen as a replacement for fiber-optic systems, Szelag added.

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