What is the significance of fiber-optic technology?
Fiber-optic technology is revolutionizing the communications industry. Transmissions are fast, occurring at the speed of light. The cables are composed of slender strands of high-purity glass. Buried underground or hung overhead, fiber-optic cables provide the infrastructure required to transmit large volumes of data, voice and video. The large signal carrying capacity of fiber optics makes it possible to provide not only many more, but much more sophisticated signals (like real time full-motion video) than could ever be handled by traditional copper wire communications systems.
