Sentences with phrase «fiber optic cables when»

As explained by Bush, you have tens of thousands of gap junctions between one cell and the next cell — tubules that resemble fiber optic cables when viewed under electron microscopy.

Not exact matches

Even when you send packets as light pulses down fiber - optic cables thousands of miles long, repeaters buried every 20 miles or so on the seafloor absorb incoming photons and transmit new photons to the next repeater.

While that money has helped connect almost every school in the country to the Internet, rural schools continue to find themselves at a huge disadvantage when it comes to prices and access to fiber - optic cables.

When manufacturing fiber optic cable, filaments of plastic - coated glass strands are bundled in concentric helical layers around a central core: 12, 24, 48 (or more) exquisitely thin mile - long strands piled adjacent to each other, transmitting information encoded as pulses of light, tightly bound together yet never quite touching.

More recently, Paglen has explored the ocean floor to make photographs of underwater fiber optic cables that circle the Earth and enable internet connection and developed tools to show what artificial intelligence networks and other autonomous surveillance systems «see» when they look at the world.

When the contract is up, I plan to negotiate a better deal for cable and wireless through Verizon's Fios fiber - optic service, which just entered my neighborhood.