ADVISORY/Scientists at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs Calculate Theoretical Limits of Fiber Optic Communications.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 28) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Scientists from Lucent Technologies' (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LU) Bell Labs have calculated the maximum amount of information that can be transmitted over optical fiber, demonstrating that fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber technology will result in robust, long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. and scalable communications networks The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. . You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3394 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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