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What optical-networking companies do is provide the equipment--filters, amplifiers, converters--and systems to companies that are feverishly building out the Internet, such as Level 3, AT&T and Qwest. Although optical fibers that transmit light waves have been around since the 1970s, only in the past few years have companies like JDS Uniphase and Corning figured out how to send prodigious amounts of information through those fibers by dividing light waves into channels and then packing data into each channel. A single channel is like a light bulb going on and off 10 billion times a second, flashing...
...companies point to what they call the "metro" business as a huge untapped market. After the national optical-fiber backbone is in place, the task will be to wire the cities and local networks, and eventually get that fast fiber to your neighborhood, and finally replace the copper wires and coaxial cable that go into your home. The trouble is, the metro market doesn't really exist today--and the technology that will make it possible, if not necessarily profitable, is only now being invented...
PHILADELPHIA--Tent city is a lonely place. There are 6,500 miles of fiber-optic cable, millions of inches of wires, more than 10,000 like-minded souls--and there's no one to talk to. It is Monday night, 7:26 p.m., inside the temporary Philadelphia headquarters of a major television news organization. The evening news has ended, the union crews are on a break and there are a few hours until we next go on the air. Most of us are just sitting here, clicking through our news wires...
...managed to run a campaign like an incumbent. Someone intuited the prevailing mood of the electorate: that the country can basically run himself, so long as the next guy doesn't leave any fluids in the Oval Office and makes sure Alan Greenspan's getting his soluble fiber. Who really cares - just as long as we like the guy? In fact, who needs some guy with big ideas that just might mess things up? If the nation is secure, who cares if the guy with his finger on the nuclear button pronounces it "nuke-yoo-ler"? Today, Bush's film...
...accounts, the gamble has already proved worthwhile. For 25 years, the Genmar factory at Little Falls, Minn., has used the same caustic, grubby process to churn out Wellcraft and Glastron fiber-glass runabouts. Men and women in blue coveralls layer or spray fiber glass over each hull. Half-finished boats are scattered around the warehouse, overshadowed by stacks of used molds. The stench of styrene is overpowering. The manual layering process is so imprecise that each hull is different; imperfections have to be corrected by hand...