BellSouth tests fiber-optic service
By Staff -- Purchasing, 7/15/1999
This autumn BellSouth will wire 400 homes in an Atlanta suburb with direct optic links for Internet and video service. The links will test a super-fast "fiber-to-curb'" connection that one day may replace copper phone wires. Lucent Technologies and Oki Electric Industry of Japan developed the technology, called passive optical networking. While BellSouth and other companies have already installed fiber-to-the-curb systems shared by several homes, the new system will run into each home individually and requires no power source between the network and the home. In theory, the new link can carry data at 100 megabits per second, which is up to 150 times faster than the copper phone-wire technology (DSL or digital subscriber line) that phone and Internet-service companies have been introducing around the country.
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