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Article: PAPER COVERS ROCK FIBER BEATS COPPER.(Technology Information)
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- September 1, 2000
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FIBER TO THE WEB IS THE LATEST LONG-TERM BROADBAND SOLUTION.
The future of communications is in your bathroom mirror. No, it's not in your deepening laugh lines or the tic that belies your irritation. Need a hint? It lies between your face and that Valium on your cabinet shelves. Give up? It's light reflecting off of coated glass, the principle of fiber optics, the current most promising answer to bandwidth bottlenecks. Also, like your reflection, fiber optics is close; fast, and surprisingly difficult to get a hold of.
A FIBER OPTICS PRIMER Here's a bird's eye view of the technology: Fiberoptic cables are very thin strands .of purified, coated glass ...