Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway
Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway

Author: C. David Chaffee

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-27

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0306469790

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A re-working of C.D. Chaffee's previously published The Rewiring of America (Academia, 1988), this professional book describes the fiber optics revolution. There have been many changes in the fiber optics field since the book's first publication. These include advances in optical networking; the additional bandwidth created by the Internet and associated data services; liberalization of the global telecommunications industry; and the rewiring of the world's oceans with fiber optics. Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway details all these developments. C.D. Chaffee writes: `One thing is clear: as our networks become primarily data-driven, they need to be built differently, to be able to handle data first, but also voice. It is a different way of looking at the world.'

Instructor's Manual for Understanding Fiber Optics Fifth Edition
Instructor's Manual for Understanding Fiber Optics Fifth Edition

Author: Jeff Hecht

Publisher: Jeff Hecht

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13:

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An instruction manual for use with the fifth edition of Understanding Fiber Optics by Jeff Hecht. This book includes an overview for instructors, answers to quizzes and "questions to think about" published in the book, worked-out solutions to selected problems with equations, and additional material to supplement the book. This is the original manual prepared and published in 2006 along with the fifth edition of Understanding Fiber Optics, with only minimal updates.

Understanding Fiber Optics
Understanding Fiber Optics

Author: Jeff Hecht

Publisher: Jeff Hecht

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 1511445653

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A tutorial introduction to fiber optics, which explains fundamental concepts of fiber optics, components and systems with minimal math. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Understanding Fiber Optics has been widely used in the classroom, for self study, and in corporate training since the first edition was published in 1987. This is a reprint of the 5th edition, originally published by Pearson Education and now available at low cost from Laser Light Press.

Handbook on Geographies of Technology
Handbook on Geographies of Technology

Author: Barney Warf

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1785361163

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This Handbook offers an insightful and comprehensive overview from a geographic perspective of the numerous and varied technologies that are shaping the contemporary world. It shows how geography and technology are intimately linked by examining the origins, growth, and impacts of 27 different technologies and highlighting how they influence the structure and spatiality of society.

Engineering Earth
Engineering Earth

Author: Stanley D. Brunn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-03-19

Total Pages: 2248

ISBN-13: 9048199204

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This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.

City of Light
City of Light

Author: Jeff Hecht

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780195162554

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This text presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology.

Signal Traffic
Signal Traffic

Author: Lisa Parks

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0252097416

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The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri.

Frontiers in Surface Nanophotonics
Frontiers in Surface Nanophotonics

Author: David L. Andrews

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-23

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0387489517

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This book explores the role of surface effects in optical phenomena in nanoscience, from two different perspectives. When systems are reduced in volume, the ratio of surface versus volume increases. At the level of single nanostructures this translates into an enhanced role of interfacial chemistry and thermodynamics. At the level of systems of nanostructures, it translates into larger density on interfaces, which in turn leads to such intriguing collective effects as plasmonics or multiple reflection and refraction phenomena. The book highlights both perspectives presenting sample applications. Without claiming to be exhaustive, the book aims to stimulate readers in this potentially rewarding field.

Digital Dilemmas
Digital Dilemmas

Author: Cristina Venegas

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2010-01-19

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0813549108

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The contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists. Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.