148 posts tagged fiberoptics

Here's the angle on my NZ talk that Stuff.co.nz picked up . . . Fibre link 'could insure against post-oil isolation' By JON HOYLE - The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 A high-speed fibre-optic network connected to the rest of the world would partly insure New Zealand against the isolation it will face after the final oil shock.

Denver Police say the “Limo Scam” is just a variation of the Nigerian scams that say they are sending you money, asking you for the change. This Limo Scam is being housed on Craigslist. A Denver man, Cary Zwern, says he was looking to do some part time limo driving to pick up some extra cash.

Google TISP, or Toilet Internet Service Provider, was one of Google’s renowned April Fool’s Jokes. It claimed to run fiber optic cables through sewage systems in order to provide super-fast, super-convenient internet service to residents. One British town has taken this idea to the next level.

Bklyn Design "Fair" is happening today in Brooklyn, New York. If you live close enough it would probably be worth going. Full Story (Via Inhabitat)

This is a dynamic collection of fiber-related photos fetched on Flickr with Yahoo!Pipes. Created and published in less than 2 minutes. This is the exact same collection, geocoded. Cool, huh ?

Here's the text of a talk that I presented in Wellington NZ yesterday at the the TUANZ annual NZ Telecom Day conference. Like other Americans before me, on whose shoulders I stand, I have a dream. I have a dream that the Internet becomes so capable that I am with you as intimately as I am right now -- but without leaving my home in Cos Cob Connecticut.

Cavalier’s network is one that spans throughout Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Washington DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, serving a vast number of cities in these states.  The network that Cavalier has created uses the most up-to-date technology in fiber optics and digital switching.  Cavalier

Since I came back in the training business a year ago or so, I decided to drop the traditional slideware stuff * for a more 21st Century stylish method : use the Web 2.0 gear such as YouTube for tutorial videos, Picasa for real world photos, and more recently Facebook for post-training social and

Since I came back in the training business a year ago or so, I decided to drop the traditional slideware stuff * for a more 21st Century stylish method : use the Web 2.0 gear such as YouTube for tutorial videos, Picasa for real world photos, and more recently Facebook for post-training social and

Fiber optics is a technology that uses glass or plastic threads to transmit data. A data fiber optics cable consists of a bundle of glass threads capable of transmitting messages that are modulated into light waves.