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.
From 2002 to late 2007 the capacity utilization of undersea fiber optic cable barely moved.
You can fit 100% of Netflix streaming at peak time in one fiber optic cable.
Who was there to caution against the mad stampede of telecoms firms into fibre-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.
Among recent victims are U.S. exporters to China of automobiles, fiber optic cable, chicken, grain, and paper.
Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
MCI, WorldCom has a fibre-optic cable in America, global satellite coverage, and a mass of undersea fibre.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will significantly reduce overall EMP vulnerability.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will reduce overall EMP vulnerability significantly.
" He rattles off consumer products in excess--"autos, fiber optic cable, computers, cell phones, trucks, airplanes, steel, even food.
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.
Terabeam's lasers can race along at speeds as fast as fiber optic cable.
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.
Eric Bender, who is about to submit plans for the server farm, will not have to lay much fibre-optic cable.
Installing a fiber optic cable is admittedly much less disruptive than building a new freeway, but the principle is the same.
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And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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Internet services have been boosted by an international fibre optic cable connection.
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.
The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.
Fiber optic cable is not vulnerable to EMP, but the switches and controls that use microelectronics in conjunction with the fiber optic cable need to be protected.
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