fiber-optic [计] 光导纤维
fiber-optic[ adj ]
of or relating to fiber optics
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- The fiber-optic approach also would clear the way for digital, high-definition television later in the 1990s.
- In recent months, the company has been working on an alternative to the Trans Soviet Line, the fiber-optic cable that would cross the Soviet Union.
- The testing program, which has been running for several decades with funding from the telecommunications industry, has become increasingly popular as phone companies have laid more fiber-optic cable.
- Light beams piped through glass-like fiber-optic strands can carry more information more quickly than can electrons traveling in wires.
- He told stockholders that US Sprint's fiber-optic long-distance telephone network and other technological advancements would boost its share of the market and help trim losses.
- A year later, AT&T suffered a second major outage when a high-capacity fiber-optic cable in New Jersey was accidentally cut.
- "This is a major step toward making (fiber-optic transceivers) a commodity," as opposed to low-volume, highly specialized gear, he said.
- He cited increased traffic in the casino since the opening of the World of Caesars, a simulated Roman temple with audio/visual and fiber-optic displays.
- FCC Commissioner Patricia Diaz Dennis has said repeatedly that the federal government should now establish rules to assure that fiber-optic phone lines carry a "cornucopia" of voice, video and data into the nation's homes.
- A recent page-one article on research in fiber-optic data transmission erroneously gave the equivalent as five million 200-page books.
- Only last year did GTE Corp. and United Telecommunications Inc. junk their existing long-distance networks and combine to build a new fiber-optic network.
- A production increase of 30% to 50% is in the plans this year for the Spain-based Seiko Instruments Espana SA fiber-optic subsidiary.
- The fiber-optic project was rejected by an international body that determines which technologies can be shipped to Communist countries.
- The most intense fighting will center on a group of fiber-optic products built to a new industry standard called Sonet, or Synchronous Optical Network.
- The high-speed computer network would enable the transmission of 1 billion bits of computer data per second via fiber-optic cables currently used for telephone service.
- However, Friday's disruption turned out to be a severed fiber-optic communications cable that carried more than 100,000 two-way communications circuits in and out of Manhattan.
- This goes beyond corporate happy-face advertising, which typically implies that billions of dollars of capital are deployed in fiber-optic communications so Grandma can hear Little Earl's first burp by long distance.
- The fire crippled key elements of the company's fiber-optic system and knocked out service to 35,000 customers.
- Customers will also eventually benefit considerably from the use in the new mainframes of fiber-optic channels.
- Volume totaled 140,820,000 shares on the New York Stock Exchange, where advancing issues outpaced decliners, 790 to 698. Trading was partially restricted by telephone problems caused by a cut American Telephone & Telegraph fiber-optic cable in New Jersey.
- And fiber-optic sensors that the Naval Research Laboratory has designed to report ship damage under intense battle conditions are generating a new high-tech industry.
- In coming months US Sprint should benefit from its part-ownership of a trans-Atlantic fiber-optic cable and from its participation in a federal government phone contract, it said.
- Currently, light signals transmitted on fiber-optic cables must revert every 20 to 100 kilometers to an electronic signal, then be reconverted to light by a laser, a process that limits the system's capacity.
- It is the first major undersea fiber-optic phone cable.
- Transicoil makes integrated switch panels and fiber-optic displays, among other things.
- After years of study, cable operators are moving forward with plans for new fiber-optic technology that could give consumers hundreds of new channels.
- IBM said it was interested in doing the study with Rogers, the largest cable-TV provider in Canada, because it has been especially quick to switch to fiber-optic cables, which are needed for high-speed transmission.
- Much of MCI's future traffic will travel through the trans-Atlantic high-capacity fiber-optic cable being constructed with its partner, British Telecommunications PLC.
- China plans to run more than 1,500 miles of fiber-optic cable from Shanghai in the north to Guangdong in the south by 1993.
- Mr. Finkelstein says the company plans to spend $35 million in the next five years strictly for leases for fiber-optic lines.