Corning Brings Fiber to the Home to Las Vegas; Home by Design/Connected by Design Showcase Includes Corning Pre-Terminated Fiber-Optic Cable Deployed to the Home.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 2004 International CES CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004 Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ), a world-leading supplier of optical fiber, cable and hardware, announced today that it is a sponsor and featured fiber-optic cable, hardware and equipment supplier for the Home by Design Showcase and Connected by Design Home tour in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada. The Home by Design features a fiber connection to the home as well as broadband connectivity and applications within the home. The home, designed by internationally known architect and author Sarah Susanka Sarah Susanka (born c. 1957) is an England-born American architect and author. Susanka is a proponent of the "Not So Big" philosophy of residential architecture, which aims to "build better, not bigger". , demonstrates that fiber to the home (FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. ) and complementary within-the-home technologies have practical, affordable and life-enhancing application in the lives of today's typical consumers, not solely technology enthusiasts and experts. As part of its sponsorship, Corning Cable Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Corning Incorporated, is providing its SST-Drop Dielectric Cable with Corning(R) SMF-28e(R) optical fiber pre-terminated with SC APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. connectors. The SST-Drop Dielectric Cable is intended primarily for operation in the last portion of an all-optical network A communications network that works completely in the optical domain. It uses optical switches connected by optical fibers. See optical switch and optical computer. , bridging the space between the distribution network and the customer premises. Corning Cable Systems SST-Drop Dielectric Cables may be installed as self-supporting aerial cables, in ducts or trenched to the customer premises, and the all-dielectric cables eliminate any bonding and grounding requirements. SMF-28e fiber is the world's most widely demanded low water peak fiber, compliant to all major industry standards. The Home by Design showcase home, which has been built on-site at the Stardust star·dust n. 1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. 3. Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and the Connected by Design tour of the home will be open January 8-30. It is also a feature exhibit for three major home and consumer industry events in Las Vegas: the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (Jan. 8-11), the 2004 International Builders Show (Jan. 19-21) and Surfaces 2004 (Jan. 28-29). Corning will also exhibit the Corning Cable Systems Evolant(TM) Solutions for Access Networks with Corning(R) optical fiber - a cost-effective and flexible tip-to-tip FTTH solution - at the 2004 International Builder Show. The Home by Design and Connected by Design tour is a multiple-media, digital and interactive experience. Visitors will take an audio-enhanced tour using digital headsets, with opportunities to specifically select and interact with important elements in the house, enabling them to learn about the applications that broadband and connectivity make possible. The tour highlights the four "connected by design" elements to enrich the way people live: -- 1) Broadband to the home, with video entertainment, video on demand, personal video recording, high-speed Internet access and IP telephony service delivered to the home over Corning's fiber-optic cable solutions. -- 2) Broadband in the home, including structured cabling and networking solutions, as well as wireless technologies. -- 3) Broadband-enabled appliances, including a media center PC and digital media adapters to connect PCs to existing audio and video systems. -- 4) Connected applications, such as large "jukeboxes" stored on home personal computers and played on existing audio and video systems, as well as technologies that can help reduce energy consumption and improve the environment. For more information on the Home By Design, visit www.homebydesignshowhouse.com. About Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time , environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries. |
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