Fiber Optic Wiki

The term "fiber-optics"

December 8, 2011

Fiber-optics are made of a bundle of thin glass or plastic strands. This bundle allows light to pass through without leaking out. Since the light is unable to escape, crystal clear images are passed through the fiber-optics from the point of origin to the destination, where they can be viewed by the user. Fiber-optics is used to create Internet data and images, images of internal organs, vocal sounds in telephones, and more than 80% of cable and satellite television images. Due to the clarity of the wiring in fiber-optics, images and sounds can travel at extremely high speeds without becoming distorted at any point.

What is Dark Fiber?

December 8, 2011

Dark fiber is a term used to describe fiber optic cable that is not being used at the time. The amount of dark fiber, particularly in the United States, is very high. Dark fiber is contrasted with active fiber optic cable, often referred to as lit cable.

The principles behind optical fiber

December 8, 2011

Optical fiber is a term for any sort of plastic or glass conduit meant to transport light. The principles behind optical fiber are actually quite old, but in recent years it has become an incredibly important technology, as communications infrastructure has begun to use optical fiber to transmit data at extremely high rates. Aside from fiber optic communications, however, optical fiber has a number of applications in medicine, consumer products, and physics.

What is Fiber Reinforced Concrete?

December 8, 2011

Conventional fiber reinforced concrete, sometimes called FRC, is concrete that has been strengthened by adding shreds of other materials to the wet concrete mix. Concrete is quite brittle; it has very good compressive strength but comparatively little tensile strength, which makes it likely to crack under many conditions. Cracking leads to further damage. Fiber reinforced concrete is less likely to crack than standard concrete.

Access provider

December 7, 2011

ISPs employ a range of technologies to enable consumers to connect to their network.

Wireless broadband

December 7, 2011

Wireless Broadband refers to technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area.Originally broadband had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

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