News tagged with fiber optic internet


Broadband ISPs test download caps, face resistance from more data-heavy users

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

All-you-can-eat buffets lose a lot of their luster when you have to pay by the pound. Will the same hold true for broadband Internet access?





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Ad watchdog: Cablevision Internet not 'fastest'

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. should stop saying its Internet service is "the fastest around," the advertising industry's self-regulatory body said Thursday, in response to complaints from competitor Verizon Communications ...


New light source may up inspection quality

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U.S. engineers have created fiber-optic light technology designed to improve the inspection accuracy of "line-scan" cameras.


Remote Wash. community to get phone service

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- One of the most remote communities in the lower 48 states is finally set to get phone service.


FCC clears deep-sea fiber-optic cable linking Asia, California

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given the green light for a trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable funded by an international consortium that includes Google. The new cable, expected to be carrying data traffic by ...


Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation ...


Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (35) | comments 0

More and more of our communications -- from text messages to high-definition television -- travel over optical fiber. At last count the United States was crisscrossed by more than 80 million miles of it, with ...


Biden unveils federal broadband stimulus projects

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities.


Workers haul part of a fibre optic cable onto the shore at the Kenyan port town of Mombasa

Kenya gets undersea broadband fibre optic cable

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An undersea fibre optic cable bringing broadband Internet connectivity to east Africa, reached the Kenyan coast from the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the president said.


GigaBeam wireless links used in NYC net

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created Apr 17, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Telkonet subsidiary has purchased five wireless fiber links from GigaBeam that will provide "quadruple play" broadband service in New York City.


Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...



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