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/

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

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/

Recently, crews excavated a small area of Bishop Beach in order to lay the base for a fiber optic cable broadband link that is going to connect 65 Alaskan villages in the western region.

This project, the TERRA-SW, is supported with a $44 million grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as well as a $44 million loan to United Utilities Inc.

The first step to this project was that a “bore” endpoint was buried below the Elks Lodge at Bishop’s Beach and into the tide line. As was brought out by Krag Johnsen, director of rural broadband for GCI.

“The next step is from a ship out in Cook Inlet. From Homer to Williams Port that last week in June and first week of July, they will begin to lay cable off the back of a ship,” Johnsen said. “The cable will lay on the bottom of the bay. It’s a heavy armored fiber optic cable that works its way into silt and mud and gets down embedded in the inlet.”

Each of these 65 villages, who are now depending on Satellite, will benefit from this soon to be available fiber optics; villages include those around Lake Iliamna. It will extend terrestrial broadband services to more than 9,000 homes.

The TERRA-SW project is a colossal undertaking that entails running nine fiber segments, totaling 290 miles of submarine and land-based cable. There will be seven cable landing stations and 14 new microwave towers.

“We’re hoping to be finished with the major construction by the end of the summer, then complete the network pieces toward the end of the year,” he said.

To see this article in full length, you can find it here: http://homertribune.com/2011/06/high-speed-buzz-line/

A bay area residence, Shalini Bhargava; along with many others, has been getting up to speed on the new all-fiber network recently installed in her home. All of her Telecom services, such as television, internet, and phone will be delivered through this all-fiber network.

This ABC7 article quoted Ms. Bhargava commenting, “I feel good then, if that is the new technology and that is where things are moving. It feels good.”

In another survey given to about 70,000 readers by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, a lot of the highest levels of satisfaction were documented by those who got their telecom services from either Verizon Fios or AT&T U-Verse, the phone company services that are using fiber optics.

“Both companies scored equally high in satisfaction, but Verizon Fios outscored AT&T U-Verse on performance factors like internet speed, call quality and reliability across all three services,” said Consumer Report’s Roselind Tordesillas.

The most likely reason for customers having more satisfaction with Verizon Fios is because of the fact that their fiber cables are ran directly into the house. Whereas AT&T U-Verse installs their fiber-optic lines up to a neighborhood station and then uses copper cabling the remainder of the way.

SDN Communications; a company that provides fiber optic networks for broadband connectivity, internet, network surveillance, networking equipment and phone systems, will be starting a $25 million project in Vermillion, South Dakota that is to bring about broadband access to 75 communities within the next two years.

FOX44 brought out how broad this project will be by stating, “More than 300 hospitals, schools and government facilities will benefit from construction of the statewide network.”

The impact of this $25 million project upon these South Dakota communities will benefit them greatly. The project’s organizers are lead to believe that faster network connections will improve the state’s marketability.

The deadline of installing these 359 miles of new fiber optic cable is to be by December 2012.

To view the original article, please click the link here: http://www.kpth.com/Global/story.asp?S=13129812

The number of subscribers to Global Broadband continues to increase, in particular, mobile wireless growth is exceeding expectations. The appetite to acquire the Internet with a high-speed connection, truly is the principle market driver accountable for the growth of broadband subscribers. The increasing popularity of bandwidth-intensive applications, for instance using IP-based telephony services, downloading music files, and watching online videos, is plainly impelling demand for higher-speed Internet connections; pushing the number of global broadband subscribers to 763 million in 2010.

“From 2007 through 2009, there was a continued growth rate of 25% in broadband subscribers worldwide,” says Vahid Dejwakh, Industry Analyst. “Though this is expected to slowly decrease to 10% by 2014 as the broadband market matures, there are still some substantial gains to be made. The Asia/Pacific region will continue to see very high growth rates, along with Latin America and the Middle East/Africa regions.”

Additional examination results include:

• By the end of 2010, the United States will have over 179 million broadband subscribers.
• Again, by year-end 2010, the total worldwide DSL subscribers will reach 371 million; provoked primarily by strong demand for DSL in the Asia/Pacific region.
• Subscribers to mobile wireless broadband connections continue to increase swiftly as mobile telephone service providers offer 3G and 4G services.
• Approximately 76% of the world’s FTTH subscribers live in the Asia/Pacific region.
• The largest market for cable modem services continues to be North America.

This research is part of In-Stat’s Multimedia Broadband Services which provides comprehensive analysis and forecasts of the worldwide markets for consumer broadband voice, video, and data services, including subscribers, revenue, competitive business models, industry agendas, and consumer perspectives.

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By way of the 2009 economic stimulus act, the $795 million in grants and loans funded will create 5,000 construction and installation jobs. Along with achieving $200 million in associated private investment; according to information provided by the White House.

“We’re moving forward” in the creation of a twenty-first century economy, Obama said. “Studies have shown” that such an investment can eventually “lead to hundreds of thousands of new jobs.” It will also accelerate the country’s switch to a “smarter, stronger, more secure electrical grid.”

Many will benefit from the investment. It is noted that over 685,000 businesses, 900 health care facilities and 2,400 schools in all of the 50 states will gain from the government’s investment. All of which is according to a White House document.

The money will bring broadband services to communities that “currently have little or no access, to help them better compete and do business in the global marketplace,” the document said.

The advantages of this investment are abundant and will benefit numerous people within the United States.

To see this article in full, you can find it at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/01/obama.broadband.connection/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

“Monday the government would make a series of low-interest loans to telecommunications groups, to encourage them to develop fiber-optic networks outside major cities.” states Prime Minister Francois Fillon. “We are at the dawn of the era of high-speed Internet and fiber-optic networks.”

To boost productivity, the French governement wants to dispense high-speed internet connections in to minor cities and rural territories.

“Under the proposed system, telecommunications groups France Telecom SA, Vivendi SA’s SFR and Iliad will be encouraged to invest together to build out local fiber networks.” said Mr. Fillon

11% of French homes have access to a fiber connection, but essentially few of the households have joined the service, according to Taylor Reynolds, an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“The government is betting its €2 billion of funds will encourage operators to pump between €6 billion and €7 billion into France’s fiber networks.” proclaims Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the minister responsible for the development of the digital economy

The €2 billion loan is part of a wider national loan program yeilding €35 billion, which includes €4.5 billion designated for information and communications projects.

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