Sentences with phrase «first fiber optic cable»

The first fiber optic cable was laid in 1995 while Basslink went into operation in 2006.

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Google is hardly the first company to run into cost issues while trying to provide consumer Internet and cable TV service, even before the era of high - speed fiber optic connections.

This week the Glens Falls Common Council voted in favor of a measure that paves the way for company First Light Fiber to wrap fiber - optic high - speed internet cable on existing utility lFiber to wrap fiber - optic high - speed internet cable on existing utility lfiber - optic high - speed internet cable on existing utility lines.

According to Spectrum, the outage first began at approximately 2:00 AM on Monday, June 26 due to fiber - optic cables damaged by vandalism; the outage affected 60,000 customers in Queens.

The NEPTUNE observatory — a ring of six underwater research stations connected to the Internet with fiber optic cables — is the first online observatory to brave the depths of the abyss.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

That was in 1988... that's right, the year the first transatlantic fiber - optic cable was laid, «Rain Man» was the top film, gas was 91 cents a gallon and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were running the free world.

The Anchorage - based company that's been laying fiber - optic cable on - and offshore around northern Alaska over the past two years will activate the first part of its system tonight, giving the Prudhoe Bay area a big boost in broadband capacity.

Thomas Edison's company's first light bulbs were manufactured here, and the fiber optic cable was invented here as well.