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Consumer and tech giant Amazon has made inroads across North Carolina in recent years, including the largest economic development announcement in the state’s history through the $10 billion initial in
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Engineers just pushed a single optical fiber past 1 million gigabits per second — fast enough to beam every movie ever made around the world in a minute
A team of researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has transmitted 1.7 petabits of data per second through a single strand of optical fiber, shattering the previous record for throughput in a cable that could slot directly into existing telecommunications infrastructure.
SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AFL, an industry-leading manufacturer of fiber optic cable, connectivity, accessories and equipment, today announced the launch of the Apex® X-1. As the most compact sealed dome splice closure in the Apex Fiber Optic ...
Wednesday was day one of the two-day fusion splicing seminar at Ivy Tech Community College. Fusion splicing is the process in which fiber optic cables are connected by heat, a process often used in data centers. Instructors say the need for fiber optic ...
Over the last twenty years the increasing transmission speed of optical fiber has been transformational, but what's next on the horizon? The development of optical fiber was arguably the single most significant enabler of digital communication. It has ...
SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AFL enhances fiber preparation and protection for fusion splicing with Fujikura’s new lineup of specialty fusion splicing accessories: the FSR-115, FSR-116 and FSR-117 Optical Fiber Recoaters and the CT-114, CT-115 and ...
3D printing of silica glasses and silica optical fiber preforms has recently been proved experimentally. One challenge of 3D printing silica optical fibers performance is how to extend the recent reports of small-scale glass “bulk or slice” printing ...
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — We hear the term fiber optics but many of us may not know what that is. ”It is basically pulses of light traveling down a glass strand that is about the size of a human hair. The glass strand itself and the speed of light it, can ...