As reported by The Daily Star’s Mohamad El Amin, Lebanon is anticipated to reveal a new submarine telecommunications optical cable.

This cable has been designated “EUROPA”, aimed at greatly increasing international capacity, hindering Internet breakdown and drastically advancing the country’s impending fiber-optics network.

“We expect to iron out the final details of project within six months. The project [hopefully] will be finalized in 30 months from now,” Firas Abi-Nassif, adviser to the telecoms minister, told The Daily Star.

The new cable system is calculated to be finished in two years, falling at the perfect time for an expected increase in demand on telecommunications. This increase in demand is due to the completion of the first phase of the fiber-optical network.

Along with reinforcing the country’s overall telecommunications efficiency, it aims to supply a secure backup to the CADMOS and IMEWE cable systems used now.

“The CADMOS cable to Cyprus has been built since 1997. The average age of these cables is around 20 years, so we had to start thinking about alternatives,” Abi-Nassif explained. “IMEWE, as we saw last week, is prone to breakdowns. The new cable will avoid such situations in a very transparent and efficient manner.”

The cable intends to promote all telecommunications channels. It will feature both data and voice telecommunications abilities. This permits boosting Internet and telephone networks, Abi-Nassif added.

To read this article in full, click the following link: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2011/Nov-22/154830-submarine-cable-to-speed-up-internet.ashx#axzz1l4AG8RhY

According to Tim Pipher with Majorleaguevideo.com, fiber optic cabling is a wise investment.

Through a Majorleaguevideo.com internet video, Tim Pipher asked the question “Do you need Fiber Optics?” He explained that the best studios have fiber optic cabling running all over, from the control room to the edit stations to the sound booths. In these superior studios, fiber optic cabling is laid to help these companies instantly send audio and video to different places, helping speed up the process.

He stated, “Rather than having to make copies of things, run it over here to get that, copy it over, bring it back over there. Fiber optic is the way to go, and I’m pleased to say that we’re complete with fiber optic lines running everywhere throughout our facility.”

For this company and many others, fiber optic transmission has helped in lessening time consumption, helping the job get done in a fast and organized way, while yielding high quality results.

Also adding to the praise of Fiber Optic Transmission, MajorLeagueVideo.com stresses the frugality of investing in Fiber Optic Transmission.

“You can rent a satellite truck and satellite time, but this will cost huge money. Why not use Fiber Optic transmission instead? You’ll save tens of thousands.” Stated Tim Pipher.

The company Time Pipher is representing is southeasternstudios.com, which is the actual facility that they operate from. He also represents majorleaguevideo.com, of which is the facility they use to produce online video productions and website video productions.

Despite Fiber Optics being comparatively young in relation to the numerous channels of communications today, it uses advanced technology and is getting the recognition it deserves.

For more information, you can find the video here: http://starlightfibreoptics.com/fiber-optic-transmission-vs-satellite-delivery-transmission/

In a recent blog, Comunidadlashormigas.org explained the basics of fiber optic technology.

They explained the materials used to manufacture fiber optics, of which are materials that transport light and are made from a collection of super thin glass or plastic fibers enclosed in a tube. They also expounded on the basic structure of fiber optic cabling. The first end being at a source of light, whereas the other end is a camera lens, intended to channel images and light around the bends and corners.

Fiber optics have an extremely transparent core of glass, or plastic enclosed by a covering called “cladding”. Light is stimulated through a source on one end of the fiber optic and as the light travels through the tube, the cladding is there to keep it all inside. A bundle of fiber optics may be bent or twisted without distorting the image, as the cladding is designed to reflect these lighting images from inside the surface. This fiber optic light source can carry light over mass distances, ranging from a few inches to over 100 miles.

In this article, we also learn that there are two kinds of fiber optics.

1. Single-mode fiber optics, used for high speed and long distance transmissions. These are used in long distances because they have extremely tiny cores and they accept light only along the axis of the fibers.

2. Multi-mode fiber optics, fibers that have much larger cores, accept light from a variety of angles, and can use more types of light sources. Multi-mode fiber optics use less expensive connectors, but they cannot be used over long distances as with the single-mode fiber optics.

Fiber optics are commonly used in communication systems. Fiber optic communication systems are installed in large networks of fiber optic bundles all around the world and even under the oceans. Many fiber optic testers are available to provide you with the best fiber optic equipment.

The result of this fiber optic configuration, messages transmitted in numeric code by flashing on and off at high speeds. This code can represent a voice or an electronic file containing text, numbers, or illustrations. The light from many lasers are added together onto an individual fiber optic enabling thousands of currents of data to pass through a single fiber optic cable at one time. Industries also use fiber optics to measure temperatures, pressure, acceleration and voltage, among an assortment of other uses.

For more information, you can visit this website: http://comunidadlashormigas.org/technology/a-brief-introduction-to-fiber-optics-technology.htm

Supposedly, the common squirrel has a particular tendency of nibbling through the country’s fiber optic cables.

According to Level 3 Communications; a company that runs a vast majority of the cables providing the internet’s keystone in the United States; stated that 17% of the damage to its network comes from squirrels chewing on the lines. No one is positive as to why these squirrels like fiber optic cable so much.

While the squirrels settle at about 17% of the complete damage, they do about 100% of damage done by animals to the company’s lines, blogs Fred Lawler, SVP of Global Field Services at Level 3.

Lawler stated, “Honestly, I don’t understand what the big attraction is or why they feel compelled to gnaw through cables,” he writes. “Our guys in the field have given this some thought and jokingly suspect the cable manufacturers of using peanut oil in the sheathing.”

Lawler says the amount of chewing happenings is down 28% from 2010 since the company added cable protectors to the plant.

So, if it happens that your internet is down, think twice about getting angry with your cable provider right away. First take a look outside and see if there is a little furry animal sitting on the line gnawing at it like corn on the cob.

To see this article in full you can find it at: http://blog.level3.com/2011/08/04/the-10-most-bizarre-and-annoying-causes-of-fiber-cuts/

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