• Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) is a 28,000-kilometre-long (17,398 mi; 15,119 nmi) fibre optic mostly-submarine communications cable that connects...
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    road. It was the site of RAF Sennen, and is now the site of a Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe building. Skewjack became well known in the Second World...
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    2004. As of 2020, over 5 billion kilometers of fiber-optic cable has been deployed around the globe. In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles...
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  • December 1996, on the subject of the history of undersea communication cables and a modern-day effort to lay the Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe. It was later...
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    Porthcurno (category Commons category link from Wikidata)
    12/13 (TAT-12/13), Gemini, Fibre-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG), and RIOJA. Each of these has thousands of times the capacity of all of their predecessors'...
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    cables, the Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe, Europe India Gateway, and the SEA-ME-WE 3 feature landing stations in the Iberian Peninsula. The West Africa...
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    8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic cable system that would link Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil (the BRICS economies), and the United States as well...
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  • Telecommunications in India (category Commons category link from Wikidata)
    Landing sites at Mumbai and Chennai. Capacity of 1.28 Tbit/s. Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG-FEA) with a landing site at Mumbai (2000). Initial design...
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  • Telecommunications in Bahrain (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the World Factbook)
    country's first fibre optic cable was installed. Batelco was a monopoly in the telecommunications sector until 2003. By 1999, the company had around 100,000 mobile...
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    the brain through the fibres of the optic nerve. Neural signals from the rods and cones undergo processing by other neurons, whose output takes the form...
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    Türk Telekom started building the fibre optic substructure for IPTV in late 2007. IPTV has been widely used since around 2002[citation needed] to distribute...
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    (passive) fiber optic splitters to divide the fiber bandwidth among the endpoints. Passive optical networks are often referred to as the last mile between...
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  • CNCP Telecommunications (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    replacement with fibre optic links. Rogers Communications purchased a major stake in the company in 1984, and CN sold its remaining share in 1988. The network...
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  • involves the installation of a fibre-optic cable along the length of pipeline being monitored. The substances to be measured come into contact with the cable...
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  • links provided by CityLink. Most of New Zealand's current international connectivity is provided by three under-sea fibre optic cables with a combined...
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  • (Batam-Singapore Cable System) (Indonesia – Singapore) BSFOCS – (Black Sea Fibre Optic Cable System) (Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia) BT-MT1 – (British Telecom –...
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    Gyroscope (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    fibre optic gyroscopes, and the extremely sensitive quantum gyroscope. Applications of gyroscopes include inertial navigation systems, such as in the...
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  • Google Fiber (redirect from Google fibre)
    Google was in the process of deploying about 4,000 linear miles (6,500 km) of fiber-optic cable throughout San Antonio. In advance of the imminent deployment...
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    Tailored Access Operations (category Cyberwarfare in the United States)
    Specially equipped submarines, currently the USS Jimmy Carter, are used to wiretap fibre optic cables around the globe. S3283 – Expeditionary Access Operations...
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    Communications in Gibraltar (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the symbol caption or type parameters)
    own redundant fibre and microwave infrastructure into and around Gibraltar. Sapphire is currently a self-sufficient, 100% optic-fibre provider, and sells...
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    Albinism in humans (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    abnormal decussation (crossing) of optic nerve fibres Photophobia and decreased visual acuity due to light scattering within the eye (ocular straylight) Photophobia...
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  • BATM (category Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange)
    focusing on developing high-performance communications equipment, mainly fibre optic networking, multiservice transport, access solutions[buzzword], and integrated...
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    Eye (redirect from Ocular globe)
    signal to the optic nerve fibres. The optic nerves send off impulses through these fibres to the brain. The pigment molecules used in the eye are various...
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    Duane syndrome (category Syndromes affecting the eye)
    absent, and the lateral rectus muscle was innervated by the inferior division of the third oculomotor nerve. This misdirection of nerve fibres results in...
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  • working primarily for the Reliance Communications division. This site was earlier owned by ICI and housed the first polyester staple fibre plant in India. Upon...
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    Rwanda (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    submarine fibre-optic cable connecting communication carriers in southern and eastern Africa. Within Rwanda the cables run along major roads, linking towns...
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  • Ervia (category Natural gas companies of the Republic of Ireland)
    utilise the former's extensive gas pipeline network to lay fibre optic lines, principally in Dublin, though with a network now stretching from the capital...
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    frequency link connecting Paris and Braunschweig, using 1,415 km (879 mi) of telecom fibre-optic cable. The fractional uncertainty of the whole link was assessed...
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    Submarine communications cable (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    fiber-optic cables may be useful in detecting seismic events which alter cable polarization. In the 1980s, fiber-optic cables were developed. The first...
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  • single-seat aircraft; the planned Lockheed YF-22 (the Advanced Tactical Fighter) would cost £70m each; passive electro-optic/infrared sensors; the German Air Force...
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