It’s 2010, which means it’s almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes.

Staff Sergeant Brett Thomas, Task Force Atlas, 44th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, supervises two soldiers while splicing fiber optic cable to connect network equipment at the Area Hub Node in ...

I was a Telecomm Tech at Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in the late 1980s and back then people who could splice fiber cable got $2000 a splice. That would be $8000 just for this repair.

Today’s fiber-optic cable has come a long way since its inception. Attenuation has been reduced to 0.2dB/km and splices can be as transparent as 0.1dB (using a fusion splicer). Cables are stronger and ...

Most of Lake Tahoe was without internet for over 12 hours this past Friday after a garbage truck severed a Charter Communications fiber-optic line near the Minden-Tahoe Airport. The incident also ...

Wednesday was day one of the two-day fusion splicing seminar at Ivy Tech Community College. Fusion splicing is the process in which fiber optic cables are connected by heat, a process often used ...

I recall a statement from one Fiber optic tutorial. It said, “Never, never, NEVER take a new connector in the field until you have installed enough of them in the office that you can put them on in yo ...

According to Herzog, the idea began with Soldiers learning to splice fiber-optic cables. "Fiber cable is made of glass, so you have to know what you're doing in order to run lines from the main ...