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...offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, pronounced dee slam). This refrigerator-sized box deftly flips video data from the speedy fiber-optic networks that form the backbone of the phone system to the "final mile" of copper wires. DSLAMs have been around since 1997, but until two years ago they couldn't handle high-speed, high-density video traffic. Now, thanks partly to improved and cheaper chips, they run internally about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Box | 9/19/2004 | See Source »

...added that the current optic fibers along which the weak light impulses are sent would only allow for two locations a maximum of 60 miles apart to communicate securely. Myers said this barrier could be overcome either with improved optic wiring, or by finding a way to send the weak light to a satellite...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Work On Quantum Code | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...most important ingredients is a frisson of Asian American spice. Born in Korea and raised in the States from the age of eight - Korean Americans call such immigrants "1.5"s - Kim's comix stand virtually alone in their depiction of Asian American lives. Only Adriane Tomine, author of "Optic Nerve" and obviously a major influence on Kim, has attempted to explore the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Top-Flight Debut | 4/27/2004 | See Source »

...acre Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City on the outskirts of Bombay is a showcase for India's high-tech sector. There, some 8,000 employees of Reliance Group, the country's largest private conglomerate, operate call centers, monitor the company's fiber-optic network and update data services provided to cell-phone subscribers. Many would not associate the gleaming campus with Reliance, which blossomed under legendary founder Dhirubhai Ambani in traditional industries such as textiles and petrochemicals. But Knowledge City is evidence that a new generation of Ambanis is reinventing India's most powerful business enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambani | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...operate a call center if what you really do, your core competence, is run a credit-card business? So credit-card companies hired independent call centers to take over the phones, and that industry put down roots in places like Omaha, Neb., which early on had a fiber-optic hub. But as the price of information technology fell and the Internet exploded, capacity began popping up around the world. Which meant that all you needed to run a call center, or a customer-service center, was information technology (IT) and employees who spoke English. Hello, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: '04 The Issues: Is Your Job Going Abroad? | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

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