Conax Technologies of Buffalo, NY, USA (a manufacturer of temperature sensors, compression seal fittings and feedthroughs, probes, sensors, wires, electrodes and fiber-optic cables) has acquired Quartz Engineering of Tempe, AZ, USA (which ...
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A fiber optic cable consists of a bundle of glass threads, each of which is capable of transmitting messages that modulates into light waves. A fiber optic is made out of glass. The glass used in making optic cable is in its purest form. ...
The U.S. National Security Agency reportedly hacked into over 50,000 computer networks around the world as part of its global intelligence gathering efforts, and also taps into large fiber optic cables that transport Internet traffic ...
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Fiber optics is the heart of the system that allows driving high bandwidth to customers. Optical fibers with low attenuation are like big pipes that will ensure high quality internet connectivity. Many tele-communication companies are in ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, ...
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SEACOM has embarked on an ambitious effort to dominate Africa’s regional and global Internet transit market by signing agreements with three European Internet Exchange points. The partnership with France IX, London Internet Exchange ...
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More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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Fiber optic cables are the high-speed wires of glass or plastic that is generally used for communication purposes. These days, many large networks of universities, campuses, corporate and government sectors rely on this fast communication ...
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Avago Technologies says it has joined fiber infrastructure and cabling vendors to solve significant interconnect challenges in ever-growing data centers, especially for modern mega data centers that demand higher data rates over an extended ...
A cable assembly is defined as a set of wires with supporting components such as a connector, handle, retention system, or shielding. Cable assemblies are used in just about any application where information or signals need to be ...
Google said Tuesday it is starting to connect homes in Kansas City, Kan., to its Google Fiber broadband service. The installation will have two phases, starting with pulling fiber-optic cables from the street to the side of the home, and ...
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Sprint 4G engineering manager Viet chu shows off a new Alcatel Lucent router for LTE service in Baltimore. Sprint officials showed off new 4G LTE cellular service today in Baltimore, the carrier's 16th market in the U.S. to get the ...
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Glassware veteran Corning (NYSE: GLW ) has fallen on hard times lately. Is it time to give up on the stock, or will Corning have a banana and a comeback? The stock has lost 18% of its value in just over a month. The slide was punctuated ...
November 21, 2012 - AFL says it has closed its acquisition of Alta Group, a provider of services for the telecom industry with operations in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Headquartered in Atlanta, ...
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