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NEWS:
Barack Obama's Internet Agenda
President Barack Obama announced an ambitious plan to build up the nation’s Internet infrastructure as part of his proposed economic stimulus package; Obama's call to bring high-speed Internet to all Americans has set off a scramble among service providers for a piece of the action...
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Washington Post
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New York Times
Industry Response to Obama Proposals
Fiber-To-The-Home Council:
Letter to Congress
Telecommunications Industry Association:
Open Letter to Obama Proposal to Congress
Ultra-Broadband's Economic Bounty
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg discusses investment in fiber networks to revolutionize the way we live, and revitalize our cities...
100 Gigabit Ethernet Leader in Two Years
standard is expected to complete in 2010... Verizon has said it is going to 100Gbps this year...
ABOUT FIBER OPTICS:
TECHNOLOGY BASICS
*NOTE: at time of writing (2005), article correctly listed SMA connector as obsolete; SMA now seeing resurgence in Medical field due to validation for high power application
Fiber Based LANs - Application Profiles
(FOLS: Fiber Optics Lan Section)
Case histories profiled discuss how optical fiber used in specific applications and touch on why network designers selected a fiber-based solution
ARTICLES
Fiber To The Home / Premises
(Fiber Optic Association)
Overview and Tutorial: FTTH / FTTP / FTTx...
FTTH Primer
(Broadband Properties)
Fiber-To-The-Home online book
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Expand Fiber Capacity with WDM
(CIO Today)
technology allowing independent and simultaneous data streams to be transmitted over a single fiber-optic connection using different wavelengths, or colors of light...