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Hyperoptic offers Londoners 1Gbps fibre broadband

...28 per month including line rental. "There is a preconception that fibre optic is expensive and therefore cannot be made available to consumers," Hyperoptic's... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Virgin Media speeds up XL broadband service to 30Mbps

...Virgin Media has speeded up the middle layer of its fibre-optic broadband, with the XL 20Mbps service accelerating to 30Mbps as of 1... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Rich Trenholm

Researchers demo 512Gbps over single fibre channel

...would be 400Gbps per channel. "While the bar is higher for fibre-optic transmission in a laboratory setting, this record was set under real-world... Read more

5 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Police and BT target cable thieves

...Met said in a statement on Monday. During copper cable theft, fibre-optic cable is often damaged, exacerbating communications cuts, police said. Damaged fibre-optic... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Down the sewer to inspect Geo's fibre

Down the sewer to inspect Geo's fibre

...run the risk of getting tangled. Tangling would be disastrous for fibre-optic cable. Even excessive bending would disrupt the passage of the light, which... Read more

28 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Google chooses Kansas City as broadband test hub

...as Kansas City moves from traditional broadband to ultra high-speed fiber optic connections." For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Kansas City... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Caroline McCarthy

UK space industry booms in recession

...delivered by satellite, and how much by other means, such as fibre optic or copper cable. The minister said that rural broadband in Cornwall, which... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Virgin to trial super-fast broadband via electricity poles

...Tuesday that it will begin trialling the delivery of super-fast fibre optic broadband via the existing electricity pole infrastructure to a small village in... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

BT pits town against town in race for fibre broadband

The telecommunications firm has launched a survey to gauge demand for fibre broadband around the UK, with the five places showing the most interest guaranteed to get fibre activation by 2012 Read more

4 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Photos: From transatlantic telegraph cables to modern fibre optics

...global reach of modern communications is built on the high-bandwidth fibre-optic cables that snake across ocean floors, connecting continents. UK firm Cable&Wireless... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Nick Heath
Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon <endeca_term>optics</endeca_term>

Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

...Intel has debuted the prototype of a high-speed fibre optic data system based on silicon chips with integrated lasers and detectors, which... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
DxO <endeca_term>Optics</endeca_term> Pro 7.2.2

DxO Optics Pro 7.2.2

DxO Optics Pro is a multi-award winning program running on Windows or Macintosh... Read more

11 April, 2012

Bristol University demos brightest quantum optics

...for building up larger scale circuits and even algorithms. "Using an integrated optics on a chip approach that we have pioneered here at Bristol over... Read more

27 June, 2011

US plugs advanced optics into helicopter drone

The prototype A160 Hummingbird rotorcraft drones have a sensor system that lets them track people and vehicles in a 25-mile area from a height of 20,000 feet Read more

28 December, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
2D and 3D Graphical Visualization of Teeth Surface Based on the Fiber <endeca_term>Optic</endeca_term> Intensity Modulation Technique

2D and 3D Graphical Visualization of Teeth Surface Based on the Fiber Optic Intensity Modulation Technique

...graphical visualization system of teeth surfaces is presented which employs a fiber optic intensity modulation technique. The use of a graphical visualization system for acquiring... Read more

22 February, 2012

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