Pak-China
fibre optic cable to start functioning by year-end
International Resource News-December 14, 2017--Southern California Gas Company breaks ground on
fibre optic cable installation in California
The wiring found in the latest generation of computer chips is much finer than any conventional
fibre optic cable, which operate effectively at diameters no smaller than one-thousandth of a millimetre.
The new
fibre optic cable has been running on a test set-up 1 m long in the igus technical centre for more than 1 million double cycles.
Brian Herbst, director of specialty cables, received a patent for breathable down hole
fibre optic cable. Used in the oil and gas industry, this cable has an outer protective tube which itself has a plurality of optical fibres contained therein.
Airtel Nigeria is planning to add more than 2,000 kilometres of
fibre optic cable to its network, which currently consists of 4,000km of fibre cable serving 20 million customers, according to a report from Nigerian publication, Leadership.
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For the Libya Silphium project, which will connect Libya and Greece, Nexans is supplying 440 km of
fibre optic cable.
The company said, on 14 August the
fibre optic cable was damaged between Omuthiya and Ondangwa and again on 18 August between Tsumeb and Oshivelo when thieves used unknown objects to cut the lines.
And engineers from telecoms company Thus plc were stunned to find a stretch of
fibre optic cable running between Elgin and Macduff had been eaten.
Fibre optic cable has glass or plastic strands that are used to carry the signals.