Sentences with phrase «fiber optic cable called»

Verizon, which sells high - speed internet access using fiber optic cable called FiOS, has stopped expanding the reach of FiOS in New York state, instead focusing on increasing subscription to the system in existing areas, most of which is located in densely populated metro areas.

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• Britain's GCHQ taps fiber - optic cables to collect and store global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories, and calls, and then shares the data with the NSA.

Starting next year a global project called Neptune, for North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, will lay wire - and - fiber - optic cable over a 200,000 - square - mile region of the seismically active Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the northwest coast of the United States.

In a pair of recently published papers, a team led by Berkeley Lab researcher Jonathan Ajo - Franklin announced they had successfully combined a technology called «distributed acoustic sensing,» which measures seismic waves using fiber - optic cables, with novel processing techniques to allow reliable seismic monitoring, achieving results comparable to what conventional seismometers can measure.

The surveillance program is supposed called «OAKSTAR» and is actually a set of secret partnerships with various corporates that allows the NSA to pull data directly from fiber optic cables and monitor communications.

The crux of the problem appears to be Magic Leap's gamble on a so - called fiber scanning display, which shines a laser through a fiber optic cable that moves rapidly back and forth to draw images out of light.