Tomorrow's Infrastructure

Business leaders nationwide agree: Fiber optics are the infrastructure of the future. The construction of a complete fiber optic network throughout the country is the key to determining just how successfully the U.S. will move fully into an information-based economy. "We are now in the age of i...

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Published inOutstate business Vol. 5; no. 2; p. 5
Main Author Leithauser, Helen Prescott
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boyne City Harbor House Publishers, Inc 19.02.1992
Subjects
Fiber optics
Innovations
North Central
Telecommunications industry
Boyne City
MI
US
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Summary:Business leaders nationwide agree: Fiber optics are the infrastructure of the future. The construction of a complete fiber optic network throughout the country is the key to determining just how successfully the U.S. will move fully into an information-based economy. "We are now in the age of information," says AT&T's Jim Messenger. "Fiber allows an enormous amount of information to be transmitted economically. Using fiber optics means voice, video and data signals can be sent and received simultaneously." (excerpt)
ISSN:1064-3621