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

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/

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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/

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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.