Archive for March, 2008

Free Fiber Optic Simulation Application Availble for Download

March 31, 2008
Free Fiber Optic Simulation Application Availble for Download

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...
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Fiber optics and LED technology are combined to create luminious tablecloth

March 31, 2008
Fiber optics and LED technology are combined to create luminious tablecloth

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,...
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Google Sinks Cash into Undersea Cable

March 12, 2008
Google Sinks Cash into Undersea Cable

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...
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Vietnamese Fishermen Charged With Harvesting Fiber Optic Cable

March 12, 2008
Vietnamese Fishermen Charged With Harvesting Fiber Optic Cable

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...
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How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people

March 12, 2008
How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people

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...
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Scientists Make Black Hole in Fiber Optic Cable: World Doesn’t End [Black Hole]

March 12, 2008
Scientists Make Black Hole in Fiber Optic Cable: World Doesn’t End [Black Hole]

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...
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Corning Introduces Super Bendy Fiber Optics For Your Home

March 12, 2008
Corning Introduces Super Bendy Fiber Optics For Your Home

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...
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Google to Lay Own Transpacific Cable, Furthering Benevolent World Domination

March 12, 2008
Google to Lay Own Transpacific Cable, Furthering Benevolent World Domination

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...
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Hong Kong Fiber Optic Rates Prove Verizon’s FiOS is a Rip-Off

March 12, 2008
Hong Kong Fiber Optic Rates Prove Verizon’s FiOS is a Rip-Off

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...
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Why Does Japan Get All The Super-Fast Fiber Optic Love?

March 12, 2008
Why Does Japan Get All The Super-Fast Fiber Optic Love?

The New York Times just took a peek into the world of Japanese fiber optic broadband, which we all know is much faster and cheaper than ours. While we here...
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