Using copper wire Category 6 cables rather than optical cables lowers the costs enormously.
This way he doesn't have to rely on thin, copper wire and slow performance.
The tole is embossed, hammered and formed, and then attached to stems fashioned of copper wire.
When I was a kid, I tested this by taking a battery, a copper wire, and a nail.
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That is, people actually digging up copper wire from the ground, stealing it, and selling it for scrap.
Last month some rather more organised criminals lifted 2km of copper wire and cable between Hanover and Hamburg.
He knew how to strip the copper wire from dilapidated buildings and the lead from around the pipes.
In the late 1960s microwave replaced copper wire as the mainstay of long-distance phone traffic: more volume at lower cost.
The most common method is plain old copper wire packed in cables.
And since consumers do not think about power consumption when choosing a phone or laptop, manufacturers tended to stick with copper wire.
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In short, almost anywhere copper wire is used in close quarters or for fine quality--there is a promising opportunity for the light pipe.
Izzo credits the "spider web" like network of copper wire, paired with coaxial and fiber crossing underneath city streets, for the network's durability.
One had a full 1, 200 feet of copper wire leading to the trigger far further than U.S. forces were trained to look for the triggerman.
But in the bowels of a particular metropolitan area--where conduits are already becoming choked with thick copper wire--the human-hair-sized glass has almost immediate prospects.
Why should competitors build innovative, ultra high-speed fiber networks that would provide real competition when the government is giving them a break on copper wire?
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You see, the day you start selling black market copper wire to pay for Diet Coke is the day you realize you have a serious problem.
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.
The scientists said much of rural Scotland still had no high quality web access, despite government investment to upgrade the existing copper wire infrastructure and subsidise satellite connections.
One problem is "spectrum incompatibility" among myriad broadband designs--T1, ISDN and nine or so flavors of DSL. Their signals move along copper wire in overlapping frequency and modulation schemes.
"It is highly automated and extremely technical and it includes a diverse range of fibers, including copper wire, to make a wide range of items of clothing, " she says.
But in going to market, Intel and Apple discovered that they could get the same high data rate out of simple copper wire and it was a lot cheaper.
Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.
Lightning is famously reluctant to strike twice, but Kickstarter seems intent on at least kitting Fargo and his contemporaries out with a lot of copper wire and a really big kite.
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Until recently the conversion was made using copper wire.
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In that cold, copper wire and plastic become brittle.
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The fibers are made by rolling conducting and insulating polymer films around a copper wire, which are then heated to about 200 degrees C (about 400 degrees F) and stretched out until soft and elastic.
Helium-cooled superconductors like those found in MRI machines and the LHC cannot, however, compete with ordinary copper wire in more pedestrian applications, like transmission cables, where the advantages of superconductivity do not merit the enormous costs.
There are pages and pages of health and beauty ads: work-out systems, food supplements, tooth whiteners and all kinds of massagers including "a 10-pronged, copper wire head massager that will send waves of pleasure through your body".
While this may have been good news for Nepal, Indian industry claims the market was flooded with exports of hydrogenated vegetable oil, acrylic yarns, iron pipes, copper wire and zinc oxide, which India claims has hurt its market.
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