Building The Global Fiber Optics Superhighway

Author : C. David Chaffee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780306469794

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Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway by C. David Chaffee Pdf

A re-working of C.D. Chaffee's previously published The Rewiring of America (Academia, 1988), this professional book describes the fiber optics revolution. There have been many changes in the fiber optics field since the book's first publication. These include advances in optical networking; the additional bandwidth created by the Internet and associated data services; liberalization of the global telecommunications industry; and the rewiring of the world's oceans with fiber optics. Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway details all these developments. C.D. Chaffee writes: `One thing is clear: as our networks become primarily data-driven, they need to be built differently, to be able to handle data first, but also voice. It is a different way of looking at the world.'

Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher : Jeff Hecht
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Instructor's Manual for Understanding Fiber Optics Fifth Edition by Jeff Hecht Pdf

An instruction manual for use with the fifth edition of Understanding Fiber Optics by Jeff Hecht. This book includes an overview for instructors, answers to quizzes and "questions to think about" published in the book, worked-out solutions to selected problems with equations, and additional material to supplement the book. This is the original manual prepared and published in 2006 along with the fifth edition of Understanding Fiber Optics, with only minimal updates.

Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher : Jeff Hecht
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781511445658

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Understanding Fiber Optics by Jeff Hecht Pdf

A tutorial introduction to fiber optics, which explains fundamental concepts of fiber optics, components and systems with minimal math. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Understanding Fiber Optics has been widely used in the classroom, for self study, and in corporate training since the first edition was published in 1987. This is a reprint of the 5th edition, originally published by Pearson Education and now available at low cost from Laser Light Press.

Author : Barney Warf
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785361166

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Handbook on Geographies of Technology by Barney Warf Pdf

This Handbook offers an insightful and comprehensive overview from a geographic perspective of the numerous and varied technologies that are shaping the contemporary world. It shows how geography and technology are intimately linked by examining the origins, growth, and impacts of 27 different technologies and highlighting how they influence the structure and spatiality of society.

Author : Lee, In
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1211 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781605661957

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Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business by Lee, In Pdf

"This book provides original, in-depth, and innovative articles on telecommunications policy, management, and business applications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048199204

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Engineering Earth by Stanley D. Brunn Pdf

This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.

Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199883080

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City of Light by Jeff Hecht Pdf

City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a lively account of both the people and the ideas behind this revolutionary technology. The basic concept underlying fiber optics was first explored in the 1840s when researchers used jets of water to guide light in laboratory demonstrations. The idea caught the public eye decades later when it was used to create stunning illuminated fountains at many of the great Victorian exhibitions. The modern version of fiber optics--using flexible glass fibers to transmit light--was discovered independently five times through the first half of the century, and one of its first key applications was the endoscope, which for the first time allowed physicians to look inside the body without surgery. Endoscopes became practical in 1956 when a college undergraduate discovered how to make solid glass fibers with a glass cladding. With the invention of the laser, researchers grew interested in optical communications. While Bell Labs and others tried to send laser beams through the atmosphere or hollow light pipes, a small group at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories looked at guiding light by transparent fibers. Led by the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics, Charles K. Kao, they proposed the idea of fiber-optic communications and demonstrated that contrary to what many researchers thought glass could be made clear enough to transmit light over great distances. Following these ideas, Corning Glass Works developed the first low-loss glass fibers in 1970. From this point fiber-optic communications developed rapidly. The first experimental phone links were tested on live telephone traffic in 1977 and within half a dozen years long-distance companies were laying fiber cables for their national backbone systems. In 1988, the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable connected Europe with North America, and now fiber optics are the key element in global communications. The story continues today as fiber optics spread through the communication grid that connects homes and offices, creating huge information pipelines and replacing copper wires. The book concludes with a look at some of the exciting potential developments of this technology.

Author : Lisa Parks,Nicole Starosielski
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252097416

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Signal Traffic by Lisa Parks,Nicole Starosielski Pdf

The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri.

Author : David L. Andrews,Zeno Gaburro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387489513

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Frontiers in Surface Nanophotonics by David L. Andrews,Zeno Gaburro Pdf

This book explores the role of surface effects in optical phenomena in nanoscience, from two different perspectives. When systems are reduced in volume, the ratio of surface versus volume increases. At the level of single nanostructures this translates into an enhanced role of interfacial chemistry and thermodynamics. At the level of systems of nanostructures, it translates into larger density on interfaces, which in turn leads to such intriguing collective effects as plasmonics or multiple reflection and refraction phenomena. The book highlights both perspectives presenting sample applications. Without claiming to be exhaustive, the book aims to stimulate readers in this potentially rewarding field.

Author : Cristina Venegas
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813549101

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Digital Dilemmas by Cristina Venegas Pdf

The contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists. Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.

Author : Myung Oh,James Larson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781136813139

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Digital Development in Korea by Myung Oh,James Larson Pdf

This book explores the role of digital information and communications technology in South Korea’s development, starting with and building upon the crucial developments of the 1980s. Its perspective draws on the information society concept and on a conceptual model of strategic restructuring of telecommunications. It also draws on firsthand experience in formulating and implementing policies. The analysis identifies aspects of the Korean experience from which developing countries around the world might benefit. Oh and Larson describe the revolutionary developments of the 1980s including the TDX electronic switching system, a major surge forward in semiconductors, the start of privatization and color television and the thoroughgoing restructuring of Korea’s telecommunications sector. They further explore government leadership, the growing private sector and international trade pressures in the diffusion of broadband, mobile communication, and convergence toward a ubiquitous network society. The role of education in these developments is explored in detail, along with both the positive and negative aspects of Korea’s vibrant new digital media. The book also looks at Korea’s growing international involvement, its role in efforts to build a world information society, and finally, its future place in cyberspace. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and policy makers interested in communications technologies, Asian/Korean Studies and development studies.

Author : Joseph P. Stoltman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781412974646

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21st Century Geography by Joseph P. Stoltman Pdf

This is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Author : Bahaa E. A. Saleh,Malvin Carl Teich
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124267605

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Fundamentals of Photonics by Bahaa E. A. Saleh,Malvin Carl Teich Pdf

Fundamentals of Photonics: A complete, thoroughly updated, full-color second edition Now in a new full-color edition, Fundamentals of Photonics, Second Edition is a self-contained and up-to-date introductory-level textbook that thoroughly surveys this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of photons and atoms, and semiconductor optics. Presented at increasing levels of complexity, preliminary sections build toward more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, guided-wave and fiber optics, semiconductor sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, optical interconnects and switches, and optical fiber communications. Each of the twenty-two chapters of the first edition has been thoroughly updated. The Second Edition also features entirely new chapters on photonic-crystal optics (including multilayer and periodic media, waveguides, holey fibers, and resonators) and ultrafast optics (including femtosecond optical pulses, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and optical solitons). The chapters on optical interconnects and switches and optical fiber communications have been completely rewritten to accommodate current technology. Each chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, exercises, problems, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755644

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Kenneth M. Mead
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0788114212

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Information Superhighway by Kenneth M. Mead Pdf

Discusses: (1) managing the transition to a more competitive local telecommunications marketplace, (2) ensuring universal service in a competitive marketplace, and (3) ensuring network security, privacy, reliability, and interoperability. Charts and tables