The company, along with Lucent, in recent decades has dominated the production of fiber-optic cables that can carry tens of thousands of times more voice and data calls than standard copper phone lines.
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The so-called steel bullets sold in the United States are generally lead-core bullets with copper-washed steel jackets, and these do not present a significantly greater risk of ricochet than a standard copper-jacketed projectile.
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AT & AMP; T recently announced new technology that could allow high-quality video and interactive services transmitted, at least for short distances, over the standard copper wire that connects homes to the telephone system.
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The USB 2.0 specification requires that cable delay be less than 5.2 ns per meter km / s } }, which is close to the maximum achievable transmission speed for standard copper wire ).
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DSL and cable modems both work by adding electronics to take advantage of vast amounts of previously unused capacity on either the standard copper telephone wires or coaxial cables that carry television signals to homes.
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The carrot is a standard for ADSL ( asymmetric digital subscriber line ), a technology that offers simultaneous voice and data calls at speeds up to 8 million bits per second over standard copper wires.
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For most customers, BellSouth counts on digital subscriber line technology, which _ under the right circumstances _ lets a standard copper phone line carry millions of bits of data per second along with voice conversation.
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DSL offers Net connections with download speeds 50 to 125 times faster than dial-up modems by enhancing the carrying capacity of the standard copper telephone wires that serve the vast majority of homes and businesses.
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Artel Video Systems Inc . of Marlborough, Mass . is launching another bid to crack the market for delivering television over standard copper phone lines, a potentially huge business when and if it finally takes off.
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ISDN uses standard copper wire and the public telephone network to deliver from three to 24 " channels " ( 64, 000 bits a second ) capable of carrying digital voice or data signals into homes and businesses.
