It is building an all-Internet network, encompassing 40, 000 miles of newly laid fiber-optic lines--on the cheap.
Telecom gear maker MRV Communications sold shares in its fiber-optic unit, Luminent, when fiber was humming.
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.
The 1980s were defined by the PC revolution, the 1990s by the fiber-optic and Internet booms.
The bubble years saw an immense build-out of fiber-optic capacity as telcos new and old--Worldcom!
Silicon speaks the language of electrons, but fiber-optic cable uses the language of photons.
Wharf Cable is switching to a state-of-the art fiber-optic network and revamping its programming mix.
As a recent article explained, exchanges are building microwave towers in order to avoid fiber-optic cable.
The fiber-optic technology is fantastically complex and dependent on the latest materials and computing technology.
Many experts believe that colonoscopy (fiber-optic examination of the entire colon) every 10 years is beneficial.
The only other serious alternative, fiber-optic links to the home, won't be economically viable for years.
The company says its process makes data transmission faster and more reliable than existing fiber-optic systems.
The computer is hooked up to fiber-optic cables leading to DOT and University of Minnesota networks.
The RFP included constructing some 255 towers and digging up sidewalks to string fiber-optic cable.
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Nethercomm claims the system can provide twice as much bandwidth as a standard fiber-optic connection.
It does a thriving business in directional-drilling equipment used, among other things, to lay fiber-optic cable.
Companies that make the guts of fiber-optic systems: lasers, filters, amplifiers and multiplexers.
The new optical networking system should not be seen as a replacement for fiber-optic systems, Szelag added.
Verizon's Wireline operations provide converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network.
The home projects class, elegance--and a time before computer chips and fiber-optic cables ruled the local land.
This time the outcome is probably bankruptcy--one of several spectacular filings by fiber-optic companies--not a billion-dollar profit.
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Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
Yes, the fiber-optic infrastructure is finally in place to wire the North Country to the latest technologies.
's bold video-on-demand experiment with an eye toward investing in the fiber-optic technology that made it work.
Currently researchers do this using fiber-optic cables hardwired into mouse brains, but they are working on wireless setups.
We now have 3, 500 kilometers of expressways, all with fiber-optic lines that are the backbone of our communications.
Google says it doesn't provide phone service and may leave that to Provo's current fiber-optic operator, Veracity Networks.
Bernstein reported cable, satellite and fiber-optic providers had actually added 677, 000 customers in the first quarter of 2010.
Level 3, for example, is laying thousands of miles of fiber-optic lines to support its nationwide IP service.
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