'A relatively new technology with vast potential importance, fiber optics is the channeled transmission of light through hair-thin glass fibers.' [ Less expensive than copper cables [ Raw material is silica sand [ Less expensive to maintain [ If damaged, restoration time is faster (although more users are affected) [ Backbone to the Information Superhighway Information (data and voice) is transmitted through the fiber digitally by the use of high speed LASERs (Light Amplification through the Simulated Emission of …showed first 75 words of 1215 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1215 total…to business and residential customers. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. 2. 1994 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, Compton's NewMedia. 3. Fiber Optics abd Lightwave Communications Standard Dictionary, Martin H. Weik, D.Sc., Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, New York, 1981. 4. Fiber Optics and Laser Handbook, 2nd Edition, Edward L. Stafford, Jr. and John A. McCann, Tab Books, Inc., Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, 1988. 5.5. Fiber Optics and Optoelectronics, Second Edition, Peter K. Cheo, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990.