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...ADVA Optical Networking Public company based in Munich, Germany Chief Strategy Officer: Brian Protiva What it does: Wave division multiplexing, a low-cost way of boosting transmission capacity of existing fiber facilities Why it is hot: Big companies are running out of room to store data. ADVA's products allow flexible ways to deal with data storage, such as monster warehouses renting space www.advaoptical.com...
...Optillion Private company based in Kista, Sweden CEO: Patrik Evaldsson What it does: Produces fiber-optic Ethernet 10-Gbps (and above) transceivers, which offer better, lower-cost Ethernet at 10 times the current speed Why it is hot: Its innovations are expected to lead to low-cost, high-speed connections for consumers www.optillion.com...
...waste in irrigation (providing more drip to the drop); desalinating (where energy sources and funds permit, as in Saudi Arabia); recycling; making appropriate local choices of crops and grain-fed animals (growing corn rather than wheat in areas where water is not plentiful, raising chickens rather than pigs); employing low-cost chlorination and solar disinfectant techniques; increasing water "harvesting" - from sources like rain and fog - for agricultural use, particularly at village level; and transportation of potable water in giant polyurethane bags to dry areas (as has been done in Cyprus and the Greek islands for years...
...trees, or swanning around an art deco bathhouse with its own artificial beach, pay a visit to www.thermes.org, a guide to continental Europe's natural thermal baths. The site offers a listing of spas from the Ahr-Thermen in Germany to Zurzach in Switzerland. All recommended resorts are low-cost and open to anyone: they don't require visitors to sign up for a cure or a stay at a thermal hotel. Other delights include solariums, waterfalls, fountains, waterslides, saunas and mud baths. If you like to soak or wallow in a large town or ski resort...
...international. WaveRider Communications, based in Toronto, a maker of wireless Web equipment, has just opened a South Florida office to prospect for new business in such places as rural Venezuela, where the government's peculiar radio-frequency allocations drive up costs fourfold for some components. "If we could get low-cost, 128K wireless connections into their schools, offices and homes, they'd go crazy for it," says Scott Winn, the firm's South America manager...