Word: optically
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...first phase, which Steen says has alreadybeen completed, calls for the installation offiber optic data wires and communication switchingdevices in all first-year dorms (excluding 29Garden St.). First-years living in the Yard andUnion dorms can link up once they fill out anapplication with HASCS...
Forming the backbone of the HSDN are tens ofthousands of feet of fiber optic cables,ultra-thin glass wires which transmit digital datain the form of laser-generated light. "Fiber isthe only vehicle that will support us for the longhaul," says Holmes...
Unlike conventional metal wires, according toHolmes, fiber optic cables are cost-effectivesince they will not rust or break...
...storage devices for machines built by Sega, Philips, Commodore and all the major computer manufacturers. But unlike most of his competitors, Hawkins sees CDs as a temporary solution. Ultimately, he says, interactive motion pictures will be delivered to home game machines not on a disc but through the fiber-optic networks being built by cable and telephone companies. This summer he announced plans to sell a new version of the Multiplayer that plugs directly into a coaxial cable, where it can serve both as a cable TV and VCR controller and as a gateway to the information highway...
...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...