Sentences with phrase «laid fiber optic cable»

In the runup to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a private venture, Seacom, laid fiber optic cable from Johannesburg to Europe to guarantee high - definition broadcasts of the games.

Such laws have been compared to «dig once» policies that mandate laying fiber optic cables during road construction or similar projects.

Not exact matches

Vusirikala said that cloud computing providers and other tech companies with vast data center infrastructure have increased the pace of laying undersea fiber - optic cables over the last three years.

Think about the fiber - optic cable laid during the dot - com boom, funded by investors willing to drive the share prices to the moon.

Refitting the city to be the media capital of the world led to an absolute glut of fiber optic cable laid right on the eve of the tech boom.

«The barriers to entry of laying down coaxial cable in an entire city, or laying down telephone lines in an entire city are enormous,» Weiner said, in 2013, as cities across the country are more interested in fiber - optic cable, which is far faster, than they are in coax.

Finally, in the late spring of last year, the cable - laying vessel Dependable began stringing 560 miles of fiber - optic line from Pacific City, Oregon, to Hydrate Ridge and Axial Seamount.

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.

Using fiber - optic cable laid under the water in sewer pipes, together with microwaves sent across the air above the water, three distinct states were teleported across the Danube.

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.

Picked up by antenna and streamed into the shelter over an ethernet cable, Dark Fiber depicts the artists laying a single fiber optic cable across the United States, from west to east, hopping across landscapes, industrial infrastructure and media apparatuses, and moving through walls, conduits, lived spaces, and imagined woFiber depicts the artists laying a single fiber optic cable across the United States, from west to east, hopping across landscapes, industrial infrastructure and media apparatuses, and moving through walls, conduits, lived spaces, and imagined wofiber optic cable across the United States, from west to east, hopping across landscapes, industrial infrastructure and media apparatuses, and moving through walls, conduits, lived spaces, and imagined worlds.

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.

This map shows how new infrastructure can be bundled together, with the needs for new electricity power lines, natural gas pipelines and the fiber optic cables for the National Broadband Network can all be laid at once.

Despite the fact that major international fiber optic cables (JASAURUS) connect the Pilbara to Asia, there are no plans for the NBN to lay significant links in the region.

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

At its most extensive, it could also involve laying natural gas pipelines alongside bundled HVDC / fiber optic cables.

Through my hands - on experiences, I developed expertise in diagnosing and repairing faults in pre-laid cable TV networks and laying down fiber optic.