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Fiber-optic communication October 26th, 2008

Fiber-optic communication started on a small scale, with a handful of people around the world pursuing a dream. Today it’s the backbone of the global telecommunications network. Fiber-optic transmission is among the most secure and efficient forms of communication available, becoming commonplace within buildings and in multi-building campuses for data networks and other forms of communication. This course provides an overview of fiber-optic concepts, the use of fiber-optics in data networks, and hands-on instruction in the termination and testing of several typical fiber-optic connectors, splices and circuits found today in data network systems. Fiber-optics provide higher quality and more reliable telephone services at lower operating and maintenance costs. The company plans to add digital video broadcast capabilities to this “fiber-to-the-curb,” switched broadband network by the third quarter of 1997, and broadband Internet access, data communications and interactive multimedia capabilities in late 1997 or early 1998.

Fiber-optic cables use very thin filaments (as thin as a single human hair) of glass instead of copper, and the signals are transmitted as light waves. Fiber-optic lines allow much higher volumes of information to flow than cooper wires. Advances in fiber optics and other systems steadily increase the speed and volume of information that can flow from point to point. Fiber-optic lines have been the main conduit for telecommunications since the ’80s. In the late ’90s, cable companies upgraded their networks to draw fiber closer to homes, which allowed them to offer broadband, video on demand and other services.
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