Word: optic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images of his stomach, small intestine and colon ($75); antibiotics and Tagamet for the ulcer ($25); plus five days of hospitalization...
...Instruments, are developing proposals for HDTV standards in the U.S., which will be chosen by the Federal Communications Commission by spring 1993. Even a digital system has its disadvantages. For one, the signal is so rich with information that it may have to be delivered to homes on fiber-optic cable, which is expensive to install...
Under the FCC proposal, telephone companies would be allowed to package and deliver a smorgasbord of television programming, including shows already carried by cable systems and broadcast stations. The programs would be transmitted via a so-called video dial tone, carried over fiber-optic cable, which would cost the phone companies billions of dollars to install. Defending their turf, cable-TV operators contend that the phone companies would have an unfair advantage because they could subsidize their video service with profits from their phone business...
...telecommunications services. Last year a software glitch at a New York City switching center disrupted AT&T's nationwide network for seven hours, and last January a repair crew in Newark shut down service to millions of consumers and businesses when workers accidentally cut a high-capacity fiber-optic phone cable. Last week's misadventure will not enhance AT&T's reputation for reliability and could persuade some customers to farm out more business to the company's rivals MCI and Sprint...
...real explosion in electronic services may have to wait until U.S. homes are rewired with hair-thin fiber-optic cables that can carry hundreds of times as much information as old-fashioned copper cable. So far, the fiber-to- home project has been bogged down in Washington politics. The technology exists, but the question is, Who pays? It will cost an estimated $150 billion to $500 billion to rewire America. Regulators have opposed phone-industry attempts to stick ratepayers with the bill. Cable-television companies, meanwhile, are also overlaying their old networks with optical fiber. With fewer restrictions...