fibre optics
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This is because Starlink, rather than relying on fibre optics or cables to transmit data, uses a network of satellites in low Earth orbit.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
Dr Ori Henderson-Sapir, project investigator at the UoA's Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, says that Australia has a long history of developing innovative fibre optics technologies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
By 2000, Binney, using fibre optics, had set up a computer network that could chart relationships among people in real time.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2019
Israel "will be the first country in the world to go end-to-end digital," he said, noting it will be boosted by an ambitious project to build a super-fast fibre optics network.
From Reuters ● Jun. 19, 2013
Rather than bouncing around in a plastic space bubble, Coyne, cradling a baby doll, stands atop a futuristic chrome dome smothered in tentacle-like fibre optics.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
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