fibre optic cable


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Noun1.fibre optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light
transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
fiber-optic transmission system, fibre-optic transmission system, FOTS - a communication system using fiber optic cables
glass fiber, glass fibre, optical fiber, optical fibre - a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images
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Pak-China fibre optic cable to start functioning by year-end
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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.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-May 5, 2011-CWC announces new fibre optic cable system for the Maldives(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com
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.