Fiber Optic Fun Stuff

Fiber Optic Bend Radius Protection

June 18, 2009
Fiber Optic Bend Radius Protection

  Buy Fiber Optic Cable Management Products Here There are two basic types of bends in fiber—microbends and macrobends. As the names indicate, microbends are very small bends or deformities in the fiber, while macrobends...
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Fiber Optic H2O

April 4, 2008
Fiber Optic H2O

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.

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IBM will put a fiber optic network inside your computer

April 1, 2008
IBM will put a fiber optic network inside your computer

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...
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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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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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