News tagged with copper infrastructure

Biggest 2 Australian telcos join broadband rollout

(AP) -- Australia's two largest telecommunications companies signed lucrative deals with the government to join the rollout of a fiber optic national broadband network that will be among the world's fastest.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fiber-optic speeds achieved over copper lines

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, has demonstrated industry record broadband download speeds of up to 300 Megabits per second using two traditional twisted pair copper telephone lines. ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report




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Study cracks a secret of methanol production

(Phys.org) -- What’s the best way to make methanol? The question is more pressing than it sounds. Not only is methanol an important industrial chemical – some 50 million tons are used each year to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Record-speed wireless data bridge demonstrated: Takes high-speed communications the 'last mile'

A team of researchers in Germany has created a new way to overcome many of the issues associated with bringing high-speed digital communications across challenging terrain and into remote areas, commonly referred to as the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An electronic green thumb

If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensures a problem-free communication ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kaneka, imec develop high-efficiency heterojunction silicon solar cells with copper electroplating

At the 21st International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, held on November 28 – December 2 in Fukuoka, Japan, Kaneka and imec present silver-free heterojunction silicon solar cells. The results were ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Trouble lurks for Indonesia's 'last paradise'

Huts on stilts perch above the coral of the turquoise lagoon, hammocks awaiting a lazy siesta and sunset cocktails. The Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat is a modern-day garden of Eden. But for how long?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

GPM satellite takes a spin on the high capacity centrifuge

In the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md., the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core satellite is steadily taking shape. Set to measure rainfall worldwide after ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alcatel-Lucent: We've seen the future and it's (still) copper

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alcatel-Lucent is promoting a commercial broadband-over-copper solution. Its new equipment design will deliver better broadband speeds with standard VDSL2 (stands for Very-high-speed Digital ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

Hoping for mining boom, Canada opens last frontier

Dropping beneath low-lying clouds, a float plane circles a rocky landscape on the edge of the Arctic Circle grooved by the last ice age eight millennia ago and since then bathed by hundreds of rivers and lakes.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 12

Shape memory materials ready for mass production

Five years ago, Professor Mirko Gojic, a researcher at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, wondered what his small team of researchers could do to lower the price of 'smart metals': a type of high-tech materials that can ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Red wine offers clue to superconductive future

Japanese scientists at a boozy office party stumbled across a discovery they hope will help revolutionise efficient energy transmission one day: red wine makes a metal compound superconductive. ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6


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