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Test blog from Flock!
2008-06-07 23:32:00 Here is my first test blog from Flock browser which is amazing! More About: Blog , Test
Powell Owned Fiber Optic
2008-05-30 22:42:00 POWELL, WYOMING - Can you imagine getting fiber optic connected to your home for free? Fiber can deliver download and upload speeds hundreds of times faster than most high speed internet services, and every home in Powell will have it soon. It’s a city owned project. A machine dug an underground trench in a Powell ... More About: Owned
French Paper Kills Verizon?s (VZ) $24 Billion FiOS Project
2008-05-30 22:38:00 We hope Verizon (VZ) boss Ivan Seidenberg doesn’t get his business news from French newspaper Le Monde, or he might have had a small stroke this week. In an article about French cable operator Numéricable, Le Monde apparently reported that Verizon was going to halt its $24 billion FiOS fiber-optic project because it was too ... More About: Project , Paper , Billion
Demand for Bandwidth Driving Global Deployment of Fiber Optic Networks
2008-05-23 08:24:00 New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Assessment of Broadband Access Networks , finds that fiber optic networks, despite their high capital expenditure, are looking as an increasingly viable long-term solution for providing a sustainable customer experience without straining the network. If you are interested in an analysis, which provides manufacturers, end users, and other industry participants ... More About: Fiber , Driving , Global , Bandwidth
10 Gigabit Ethernet Overview
2008-05-14 17:50:00 The ink was hardly dry on the 10Gbase-T (10 gigabit Ethernet over UTP) standard and the industry discussion swung to the next big thing – 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet . While the latest technology being developed always makes for interesting discussion, it is the deployable technology that exists today that receives the most day-to-day ... More About: Overview
Why CWDM?
2008-05-14 17:48:00 As the surge for additional convergence technology and increased-bandwidth continues, CWDM Ethernet-over-fiber seems to be a viable solution for service providers. CWDM involves both sides of the equation. That is, reducing operating costs and increasing revenue. As the traditional service revenue declines, service providers shift their focus on finding new sources of services to develop. The ...
The Benefits of Using Single Mode Single Fiber
2008-05-14 17:46:00 More and more products are being released with single mode single fiber optics and can be perceived as being very expensive, but are they? What is single mode single fiber?The answer is that it is possible to transmit and receive using one strand of single mode fiber. This is achieved by using two different wavelengths - ... More About: Fiber , Mode , Single , Benefits
Prysmian releases new bend-insensitive fiber
2008-05-14 17:43:00 Following the launch last year of CasaLight, an ITU G657-compliant bend insensitive fibre, Prysmian has introduced CasaLight Plus, an enhanced performance design that further reduces the minimum working bend radius to exceed the recommendations of G657.B. Prysmian says that while CasaLight will remain a standard fiber choice for FTTH applications, the availability of CasaLight Plus for extreme bend ... More About: Fiber , Bend
Qwest Introduces 20 Megabit per Second DSL
2008-05-14 07:15:00 Qwest Communications International, Inc. launched two super high-speed fiber-optic Internet services including Qwest Connect Quantum which provides DSL connection speeds up to 20 Mbps. This premium service is being introduced to residential and small business customers in 23 of Qwest’s top markets. Qwest Provides Fastest DSL Speed In response to customers’ requests for higher Internet speeds, Qwest’s ... More About: Qwest
Fiber optic inventor visits Kent Theodore Roosevelt physics students learn
2008-05-14 07:06:00 Students in teacher David Killius’ fourth period advanced physics class at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent were visited Friday by a man who has already changed their lives in ways they might take for granted. Peter Schultz was 28 in 1970 and a researcher at for Corning Inc., the glass company in Corning, N.Y., when ... More About: Physics , Fiber , Students , Learn
Verizon quarter profit up by 9.8 percent on robust fiber-optic services
2008-05-14 06:13:00 Verizon Communications Inc. said its first quarter profit climbed by 9.8 percent due to strong growth in sales of domestic fiber-optic services. The company’s net profit rose to $1.6 billion or 57 cents a share from $1.5 billion or 51 cents a share in the previous year quarter. Its net revenue rose 5.5 percent to $23.8 ... More About: Services , Fiber , Verizon , Profit , Quarter
Internet Obsolete? New Fiber Optic ?Grid? 10,000 Times Faster
2008-04-17 14:29:00 The birthplace of the Web, Cern, which is based near Geneva, is now busy working on “the grid” that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection, and that may soon render the Web obsolete. The grid computing project was started around seven years ago by researchers at Cern. They claim “the grid” ... More About: Internet , Fiber , Grid , Obsolete , Times
USA ranks #4 in W.E.F. Network Readiness Index
2008-04-17 14:26:00 The United States is ranked 7th worldwide in a Network ed Readiness Index in a new report issued by the World Economic Forum. The index is based on a variety of economic and political as well as technical factors. This is in contrast to last year’s OECD report, based on tighter criteria of bandwidth and connectivity, that ranked the United States 19th ... More About: Ranks
Fiber-to-the-Home Council Statistics Show Verizon Sets The Pace In Installi
2008-04-17 14:20:00 By a wide margin, Verizon continues to be the most powerful force in the re-wiring of North America, leading other telephone companies, local exchange companies, towns, developers and cable multisystem operators in connecting homes to new services with 100 percent fiber-optic links. Those are the key findings of a newly released study by an independent ... More About: Fiber , Home , Show , Sets
Fiber Optic H2O
2008-04-05 07:19:00 A 532nm, 50mW laser is shot through a stream of water. The amazing fiber optic internal reflective properties of water is exposed. Music by Kevin MacLeod. More About: Fiber
Google to build high-bandwidth subsea fiber optic cable linking the United
2008-04-04 17:52:00 “Construction underway to build 10,000 km linear cable system with a capacity of up to 7.68 Tbps to enhance Trans-Pacific connectivity” A consortium of six international companies announced they have executed agreements to build a high-bandwidth subsea fiber optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The construction of the new Trans-Pacific infrastructure will cost an ... More About: Google , Fiber , Linking , High
IBM will put a fiber optic network inside your computer
2008-04-02 05:18:00 Researchers at IBM recently announced a nanoscale silicon switch that can direct trillions of bits of data per second within an optical network. The switch could make it possible to incorporate the speed and bandwidth of a telecommunications network into a personal computer, say the researchers. This is an increasingly important goal for engineers as ... More About: Fiber , Computer , Network , Inside
Investors can cash in as demand for fiber optics takes off
2008-04-01 08:54:00 Despite the countless miles of unused fiber-optic cable laid during the dot-com bubble, demand for the high-capacity lines has been rising. And that bodes well for the stocks of companies that produce not only the cable but also the equipment that runs it. Fiber -optic cable, typically made of ultrapure glass, can carry vast amounts of ... More About: Cash , Investors , Fiber Optics , Demand
Free Fiber Optic Simulation Application Availble for Download
2008-04-01 08:39:00 Achmad has designed a fiber optic simulation software which is freely avaible for download. Here is the software’s description: Fiber Optic Simulation Application is a simulation application that simulate meridional and skew rays inside fiber optic cable.This application can simulate step or graded index fiber. It also can simulate single or multimode for meridional ray.For skew ... More About: Download , Free
Fiber optics and LED technology are combined to create luminious tablecloth
2008-04-01 08:34:00 LumiGram SARL, a French high tech fashion and design company started by the famous fashion designer Jacqueline, has come up with a line of table clothes, sculpture, throw pillows, and among other things fashion tops that are all made out of or incorporate arrays of LED illuminated fiber optics creating a shimmery, colorful glow of ... More About: Technology , Fiber , Create , Fiber Optics
Google Sinks Cash into Undersea Cable
2008-03-13 04:37:00 Google has joined the Unity consortium, which will build a $300 million fiber optic cable linking the US and Japan. The 7.68 Tbps, 10,000 kilometer (6,200 mile) will increase capacity for ever growing internet traffic between continents. Google seems to be taking a keen interest in the infrastructure of the internet, first with the auction of ... More About: Google , Cash , Sinks , Cable
Vietnamese Fishermen Charged With Harvesting Fiber Optic Cable
2008-03-13 03:56:00 The Vietnamese government has arrested ten people, including the alleged ringleader, in the theft of underwater fiber-optic internet cables by fisherman who may have harvested the lines thinking they were unused Vietnam War-era copper cables that the government has said were fair game for recycling. according to the Thanh Nien news site. Police in the southern ... More About: Fiber , Cable
How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people
2008-03-13 01:07:00 Click On the picture below for a full size version A flotilla of ships may have been dispatched to reinstate the broken submarine cable that has left the Middle East and India struggling to communicate with the rest of the world, but it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet ... More About: People , Million , Ship , Clumsy
Scientists Make Black Hole in Fiber Optic Cable: World Doesn?t End [Black H
2008-03-13 00:24:00 OK, so its not quite as sensational as it sounds? UK scientists have been trying to simulate conditions near the event horizons that shroud black holes, and they’ve cleverly simulated a horizon using pulses of light in a special optical fiber. So, no disastrous gravity well was made and the World didn’t suddenly end with ... More About: Fiber , Black , Make , Scientists
Corning Introduces Super Bendy Fiber Optics For Your Home
2008-03-12 22:03:00 When it comes to bandwidth, there are few grails as holy as fiber-to-the-home, also known as FFFFTTTTTTTTHHH. But it hasn’t been very cooperative. Fiber optic signal dies if it is bent at 90 degree angles twice, so you’re screwed unless you live in a round house. Corning, prodded by Verizon to come up with ... More About: Home , Super , Fiber Optics
Google to Lay Own Transpacific Cable, Furthering Benevolent World Dominatio
2008-03-12 21:59:00 Google is not leaving anything to chance, and according to an Australian newspaper is now planning to span the Pacific Ocean with its own undersea fiber optics cable to blast the world with its do-no-evil goodness. Owning a fat pipe like this will make Google the Big Dick of the high seas, making it cheaper ... More About: Google , World , Cable
Hong Kong Fiber Optic Rates Prove Verizon?s FiOS is a Rip-Off
2008-03-12 21:56:00 While Verizon is out aggressively trying to sell the country on their FiOS fiber optic web connection packages, which range from $40 per month for 5Mbps to 30Mbps for $180 (extra for TV and phone service!), Hong Kong residents can now enjoy their own fiber optic connections from Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited… which happen ... More About: Fiber , Rates
Why Does Japan Get All The Super-Fast Fiber Optic Love?
2008-03-12 21:54:00 The New York Times just took a peek into the world of Japan ese fiber optic broadband, which we all know is much faster and cheaper than ours. While we here in the States might view the Japanese broadband market as some utopia where entire HD movies can be downloaded in seconds, it’s not quite that ... More About: Love , Fiber , Super , Fast
Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500 Miles
More articles from this author:2008-03-12 21:50:00 FiOS, you ain’t got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing speed of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles. The transmission was done with the goal of achieving a 100 Gbps Ethernet connection, which, as I’m sure you’d agree, is a goal we can ... More About: Optical , Data , Miles 1, 2, 3 |
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