The typical fiber-optic cable now holds 144 strands of glass, enough to accommodate 57.6 terabips.
What matters is not the quantity of fiber-optic cable but the quality, or rather its productivity.
Silicon speaks the language of electrons, but fiber-optic cable uses the language of photons.
As a recent article explained, exchanges are building microwave towers in order to avoid fiber-optic cable.
The RFP included constructing some 255 towers and digging up sidewalks to string fiber-optic cable.
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It does a thriving business in directional-drilling equipment used, among other things, to lay fiber-optic cable.
Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
Dozens of companies are laying fiber-optic cable around the world, leading some to talk of a looming bandwidth glut.
Fiber-optic cable can carry many times as much data as traditional copper wiring.
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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Just as we experienced with the fiber-optic cable build-out, there was soon too much railroad capacity, and freight prices fell.
In the late 1980s Anschutz got contracts from the likes of MCI to lay fiber-optic cable along his railroads' rights of way.
Huawei, whose founders have backgrounds in China's military, also was charged with wiring Iraqi defense installations with fiber-optic cable a few years ago.
To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.
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Paul Leonard is the manager of Upper Dublin Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, says he recently discovered through happenstance that there's a major fiber-optic cable running just yards from his office.
With this the driller can create 4-D images (three dimensions plus time) of oil reservoirs via a seismic vibration sensor attached to the end of a fiber-optic cable pushed down into a well.
But you are also getting a call option on the possibility that Viacom will sell a lot of premium services to its cable subscribers, using fiber-optic cable it has already laid in the ground.
Worldcom was one of the first carriers to deploy a newfangled technology called "dense wavelength division multiplexing" (FORBES, Oct. 7, 1997) that greatly increases the amount of traffic an existing fiber-optic cable can carry.
But unlike the last build-out, when companies buried thousands of miles of long-haul fiber-optic cable under the sea and across continents, today's construction is focused more on connecting local homes and businesses with faster Internet pipes.
But since 1995, that simple anatomy has given way to several separate backbones -- thousands of miles of extremely-high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable owned by the likes of Sprint, GTE, IBM, and MCI WorldCom, connecting major metropolitan areas all over the country.
" He rattles off consumer products in excess--"autos, fiber optic cable, computers, cell phones, trucks, airplanes, steel, even food.
Wharf is betting on its fiber-optic network for more than simply cable.
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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.
Bernstein reported cable, satellite and fiber-optic providers had actually added 677, 000 customers in the first quarter of 2010.
Since LIPA is a regulated monopoly, the company has no pressure from competitors to modernize by investing in new technologies and new ways of distributing electricity unlike the case of Verizon (NYSE:VZ), which in the last decade had to replace 100 years old copper wires with fiber optic cables to fend-off competition from Cable Vision (NYSE:CVC).
Cable, satellite and now fiber-optic TV have long-since outpaced the over-the-air broadcasters in innovation, giving nearly all Americans the option of hundreds of channels of diverse content, on-demand movies and other programming, time-shifting, interactive features and bundled services.
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Implicit in this vision is the Utopian fantasy that underlies most high-tech futurism: once Africa puts this infrastructure in place, all of its problems--tribalism, racism, poverty and disease--will disappear in the purifying light of a fiber optic cable.
In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
Wharf Cable is switching to a state-of-the art fiber-optic network and revamping its programming mix.
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