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Fiber Optics and Their Benefits

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Development a. Specifics b. Speed c. fiber optics 2. New optical technology will have far reaching consequences. III. Applicability to Modern Life 1. Fiber  optics is cost effective. 2. Chase Manhattan has its own network. a. New York b. New Jersey c. Delaware 3 Advantages a. less expensive b. thinner c. better  reception IV. Conclusion Fiber optics have most of the advantages, but traditional cable is also useful in some circumstances.  Many think of fiber optics as a new innovation. One has heard television commercials over the past decade that contend that the  advent of fiber optics is rather revolutionary and that it is so advanced that one can hear a pin drop over telephone wires. Yet, one might be surprised to learn  that Alexander Graham Bell weighed the advantages of copper and light , and decided that the former is better. In fact, the notion of sending information with the use of  a beam of light is perhaps as old as the telephone itself (Shinal & Mullaney, 2000, 144). Alexander Graham Bell experimented with the concept of photonics during the nineteenth century  and in fact, in 1880, four years after receiving a patent for a telephone using copper wire, the inventor created something called a photophone that carried voice signals on a  beam of light (2000, 144). He used it to speak to his assistant, Sumner Tainter, over a distance of 1,300 feet but ultimately found that using copper wires had actually  been more workable (2000, 144). Photonics has improved a lot since that time and when the first transcontinental fiber network had been installed around 1980, a single stream of