Most importantly, reform local franchising so competitors like Google Fiber can build their own networks.
Research into the Mediterranean diet reflects how dietary fiber can affect measures like triglycerides.
Their prototypes could boost the number of channels a single fiber can carry from 160 to up to 1, 000.
In the mid-1990s Ciena, Lucent and Nortel introduced boxes that vastly increased the volume of data a fiber can carry.
No practical limit to the speeds fiber can deliver, he says.
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If any company can create a fiber futures market, it would be Enron, which has pioneered in the trading of electricity and even weather hedges (FORBES, July 6, 1998).
Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
McKay runs away from sentimentality with every ironic fiber he can muster.
The past week also saw several remarkable advances in clean tech, starting with MIT's latest innovation, a new type of high-tech fiber that can transmit sound, light, and generate electricity.
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This merger is about buying the lines that connect to the homes of BellSouth customers and selling them everything you can squeeze down a fiber-optic line, including television, Internet, movies and music.
You can be provocative in a wildcat electric Fisker Karma or stay silky and classy in in the Porsche 911 or you can go for carbon fiber cool in an Audi S7.
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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It is also a force in digital loop carriers, which convert multiple voice calls into a single digital signal and can use either copper or fiber-optic cables.
Some 18, 000 miles of cable and 30, 000 phone lines snake through its New York headquarters, linked to offices around the world by a fiber network that can zap data at 6.1 gigabits per second.
The resulting laser-fiber-microscope combo can spot such 1-in-10 million traveling cancer cells in 30 minutes.
Fiber-optic cable can carry many times as much data as traditional copper wiring.
Thanks to an engineer's trick called "wave division multiplexing, " a single fiber-optic thread can carry upwards of 10 trillion bits per second.
That won't be a factor with the 787's carbon-fiber hull, which can't rust, so Boeing has designed a system with 20% humidity.
"Today we have materials like Kevlar and carbon fiber in tires that can handle the speed capabilities of these vehicles, " said Matt Edmonds, vice-president of TireRack.com, a tire retailing Website.
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.
Each strand of fiber, in turn, can carry 80 wavelengths and typically uses 40, or 400 gigabips in all.
But you can think of, say, a fiber-optic-equipment company as a call option on the possibility that its particular technology will beat out rival technologies.
Agricultural landscapes can accomplish this while improving food and fiber production and minimizing the need for artificial fertilizer and fossil-fuel-driven tilling and raising farmer incomes.
Conversely, eating a diet high in soluble fiber and phytonutrient-rich foods can help probiotics work even better.
Terabeam's lasers can race along at speeds as fast as fiber optic cable.
But running these numbers can make a nationwide roll out of Google Fiber either seem incredibly expensive or incredibly cheap.
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Replace the ordnance with a fiber-optic laser and you can destroy 60mm mortar rounds 500 yards away, as Raytheon demonstrated last June.
Unlike previous one-way demonstrations, the LCDD uses an infrared beam -- in the same way that many land-based fiber networks do -- that can be received on Earth by one of three telescopes located in Mexico, California or Spain.
Nethercomm claims the system can provide twice as much bandwidth as a standard fiber-optic connection.
For example, wireless broadband will likely take hold in rural areas where providers can't afford to build out new cable or fiber infrastructure.
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