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5 College Consortium Seeks to Buy Its Own Fiber Cable Who is looking: Five Colleges Inc., the consortium comprising Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, all in rural western Massachusetts. What they are looking for: To buy existing and ne ... read more>>   Fiber Optic AV Cables According to ASM Labs, Inc. (410 East O'Dell Street, Marionville, MO 65705), their new Mongoose cable is the first fiber-optic cable system for stereos, VCR's, and other home audio and video gear. The Mongoose cable uses analog optical signals to sen ... read more>>   Fiber Optics Technician Fiber optics is the communications technology that works by sending signals from one location to another in the form of light guided through hair-thin fibers of glass or plastic. These signals can be analog or digital-voice, data, or video informatio ... read more>>

New Networking Articles edition... FIBER OPTICS Introduction The development of optical fiber technology has been a critical milestone in the global telecommunications and information technology revolution. The ability to communicate worldwide on demand would not have been possible without the development of l ... read more>> Fiber Optic Network Brings York County Schools High Speed Access Several school districts in York County, Pennsylvania have joined forces with the York Area Technology in Education Consortium (YATEC) to bring extended network capabilities to students. Using an infrastructure designed by Hyperion Communications, a ... read more>> Fiber Optic Network Brings York County Schools High Speed Access-Choosing A Network Choosing a Network Four YATEC member school districts are actively tied into the network. Central York has eight buildings connected, York Suburban and Dallastown each has five, and West York has four. The York City and Dover districts also are memb ... read more>> Fiber Optic Network Brings York County Schools High Speed Access-Strength In Numbers Strength in Numbers With the network design in place, each school district is connected with 3 to 10 Mbps of bandwidth to the ISP. The network's total backbone capacity is 45 Mbps. One concern about the network was whether it could handle simultaneo ... read more>> History Of Optical Fiber Technology Traditional telegraphy used wire to transmit voice signals. However, the practical frequency limit for metal wire is a few megahertz, since the increase in resistance with frequency causes intolerable loss. Coaxial cables developed in the 1940s enabl ... read more>> Networking Cable HOW WILL EXPANDING DATACOM/NETWORKING technologies affect connector manufacturers? The vast majority of nonresidential computers are linked in a network and more and more home computers are networking as well, creating many connection opportunities. ... read more>> Robotic System Installs Fiber Optics In Sewers The city of Mississauga, Ontario, recently served as the testing ground for a new robotic system that can install fiber-optic cables inside sewer systems. The robot, known as the Sewer Telecommunications Access by Robot, or STAR, was developed by Str ... read more>>