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...with almost unimaginable power: high-speed computer-graphics chips that can create millions of bright colors and flash them on a screen in a fraction of a second; digital compression schemes that can squeeze the equivalent of a complete set of an encyclopedia onto a single silver disc; fiber-optic cable that can beam limitless quantities of data around the world at nearly the speed of light; simulation techniques that can immerse players in a three- dimensional world of illusion...
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...