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Article: Fiber optic finally connects.(Electronics Purchasing)
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- December 12, 1996
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Made a long-distance phone call lately? Sent an e-mail? If so, you've probably used a fiber optic network.
Long considered to be unreliable and too pricey for mainstream use, optical fiber has become the cabling mechanism of choice for telephone, cable TV, and data networks everywhere. And, according to fiber optic executives like Bob Bennett, vice president of telecommunications at Augat, "The real growth is still to come."
Indeed, the recent deregulation of the U.S. telecommunications industry, coupled with the ever-increasing demand for networks that support complex voice data and graphics applications worldwide, is expected to boost the global ...