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Article: Making the connection
- Article from:
- Engineering and Mining Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright PRIMEDIA Intertec Mar 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The digital domain expands underground as mines-move toward fiber-optic data links and wide-band communications networks
"Convergence" has been a persistent buzzword recently, as hardware and software developers steadily narrow the technology gap between older analog and newer, state-ofthe-art digital devices and protocols to achieve seamless interconnectivity for voice, data, and video signals.
Although most of the attention has been on technological progress in telecommunications and networking, the buzzword-and some of the technology-have infiltrated mining as well. Advances in communications systems now offer mining companies unprecedented awareness and control of mine status and ...