fibre optics
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In Melbourne, A Telco Is Rolling Its Own Gigabit Fibre Internet
Following the lead of Google in the US, Melbourne telco DGtek is launching a 1 Gbps suburban GPON fibre service this month to serve homes and businesses hungry for bandwidth. The service will begin connecting customers at the end of August, starting in the beachside suburb of Elwood and extending across Melbourne’s densely-populated inner south-eastern…
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This Technicolor Dream Cloth Is Woven From Optical Fibres
We live in a magical age filled with robot maids, flying cars and mechanical guard dogs. And now, finally, that list includes colour-changing home furnishings, like this fibre optic throw pillow. This is the 21st century for crying out loud.
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World’s Biggest Fibre LAN Is At This Nuclear Weapons Lab
Sandia National Laboratories is America’s premiere nuclear weapons research facility. For more than 60 years, its researchers have poked and prodded the interiors of atoms to suss out their secrets — a task that has produced mountains of data that the facility’s copper network struggles to contain. But now even the most remote building’s on…
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MIT Scientist Controls Your Brain With Fibre Optics
MIT scientist Ed Boyden invented a way to implant optical fibers into your brain and activate them on command using light. As neurons are turned on and off, the researchers can see what the circuits do.