March 30, 2010 – The FTTH Council has announced that President Joe Savage has resigned, effective at the end of this year. Applications are now being accepted for his replacement. Mr. Savage has served as president of the council since 2006. The council hopes to be able to announce his successor at the 2010 FTTH [...]
March 16, 2010 – The Light Brigade unveiled a new website and their new four-day technical training course entitled, “Fiber Optics for Utilities”. The course is specifically developed to help the power utilities address their training needs to increase deployment speed and reduce operation costs by improving the fiber optic technology skills of their personnel. [...]
March 6, 2010 – Now this is certainly exciting news! Popular Science magazine has put their entire 137-year archive of issues online for free viewing. Each issue has been fully scanned and contains all of the original content including the period advertisements! I for one have fond memories of reading Popular Science at my local [...]
This is an excellent lecture given by Professor. S. Ghosh from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology. The lecture covers the individual components which make up fiber optic computer networks. Check out the selection of new and used fiber optic fusion splicers on eBay. You won’t find lower [...]
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World by George Gilder is a rather interesting audio book on the subject of the internet and the telecommunications companies and how greatly increased bandwidth is changing our lives and the world around us. It’s highly recommended if you want to get a good idea of where we [...]
November 18, 2009 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a staff workshop tomorrow, November 19, to learn more about the current experience with and future possibilities of advanced fiber networks. Entitled “Future Fiber Architectures and Local Deployment Choices,” the FCC says the goal of the workshop will be to understand fiber and partial [...]
November 16, 2009 – Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world’s thinking on what light is capable of. The researchers in the University’s new Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) have discovered that light within optical fibers can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than was [...]
This is part 2 of a pretty good video guide to fiber optic fusion splicing in the field.
This is part 1 of a pretty good video guide to fiber optic fusion splicing in the field.
