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  • Fiber-optic cable was the most efficient, robust, and speedy means of moving data.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Fiber-optic cable was the most efficient, robust, and speedy means of moving data.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Fiber-optic network companies Sidera Networks and FiberLight LLC are on the sales block, people familiar with the matter said, hoping to fetch high prices amid the explosive national demand for high-speed communications services.

    Sidera, FiberLight to Go on the Auction Block Anupreeta Das 2011

  • Four-zone climate control with charcoal filter and solar sensor that automatically adjusts temperature Heated seats upholstered in Grand Nappa leather Fiber-optic network with DVD player and dual 9.5-inch video screens Bose stereo system with 21 speakers that automatically corrects volume based on ambient sound Refrigerator in rear center console Two Champagne flutes in 925 sterling silver Trunk-mounted, handcrafted Dunhill umbrella Source: Daimler

    A Handful of Maybachs Isn't Enough Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

  • More Traders Mostly Shrug Off Oil's Spike Fiber-optic equipment maker Finisar tumbled 15.43, or 39%, to 24.61, after its fiscal third-quarter earnings more than tripled, but it offered a weak forecast for the current quarter.

    Stocks Ease Lower; Boston Beer Loses 4.3% Kristina Peterson 2011

  • PHILLIPS: Fiber-optic cables that connect most of the world to the Internet are pretty much nonexistent in Africa.

    CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009 2009

  • PHILLIPS: Fiber-optic cables that connect most of the world to the Internet are pretty much nonexistent in Africa.

    CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009 2009

  • Fiber-optic strands of plastic beads drizzled down like rain to a long, sleek stainless steel bar.

    Abrahm Lustgarten: What They're Really Fighting for in Tibet 2008

  • Fiber-optic cable transmits huge masses of it, and good old telephony allows the dialogue.

    Big Brother's Holding Company 2008

  • Fiber-optic cable - a multichannel communications cable using a thread of optical glass fibers as a transmission medium in which the signal (voice, video, etc.) is in the form of a coded pulse of light.

    Notes and Definitions 2008

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