Word: optic
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Modern enough to settle for a Belgium on sand? Let us hope. Because only in this case, only if the vision of Israelis and Palestinians building fiber- optic cables together is no fantasy, does this peace have a chance...
Hawkes and Carbone said the new system, based on the University's fiber optic network, will have more readily available information about disabled students who live in a building where there is a fire. A new system would also be capable of "automatic retransmission," sending the alarm through the control center straight to a fire department...
...Jersey outpost is crackling. Rather than worry about their jobs or fret about the future, workers walk the corridors smiling and high-fiving each other. AT&T Microelectronics is now a leading source of computer chips used in cellular phones, modems, disk-drive controls and fiber-optic communications. Sales surged about 50% last year, including a 90% increase in Japan and a 110% jump in Europe. AT&T's computer business is in the black and ranks No. 7 in sales, coming up fast behind such world-class firms as IBM, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard...
...backbone of AT&T's communacopia strategy is the company's 2 billion- circuit-mile telephone grid. First built in 1879, the network has been continually upgraded. In the past 10 years, AT&T has replaced most of its old- fashioned copper-cable network with advanced fiber-optic wires, which give the grid a massive carrying capacity, or bandwidth. AT&T's long-distance system handles 150 million phone calls and data transmissions a day. It has the capacity to carry at least twice as much traffic, at no greater cost...
...family members will learn that they do not carry the gene. That does not means that they are immune to colon cancer, just that they bear an average risk (a 1-in-20 chance during their lifetime). The other 25% will probably undergo a colonoscopy, in which a fiber-optic scope is used to search for growths in the colon. The $1,000 procedure would then become an annual routine...