...Fiber Optics: The Super Highway of Information We live in an information age. Broadband is the foundation of economic growth and telecommunications is making its mark in all parts of the world. It is what enables the internet that drives e-commerce, education and universal access to information. Rapidly increasing communication density in this growing field and the ever increasing information flow is resulting in massive expansion in worldwide networks. The need for quick and reliable transmission and retrieval of ever increasing volumes of information over great distances is getting more and more important every day. This paper explains the history, the fiber optic theory, and the future of worldwide fiber optics networks already in progress. One would normally think that fiber optics is relatively new to this century, but looking back in history, there are many concepts which lead to the creation of fiber optics. The transition to optics concurred with the conversion from analog to digital transmission in the telephone network and with the growing necessity of computer data transmission. Long before fiber optics was first discovered, many signals were carried through a copper coaxial cable. Invented by Oliver Heaviside in 1880, copper conductors are used for mostly analog signals, such as high frequency radio waves, cable television signals, and power lines (Nahin 1988). He determined by wrapping an insular layer around a transmission line both improves the quality of...
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...Proposed regulation: Georgia Super Speeder Law 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you. -Office of Highway Safety controls this Georgia Super Speeder regulation. This agency and regulation interests me because as a Georgia resident I have seen the damages that speeding on a Georgia highway can cause. I have had colleagues face bad accidents as a result to speeding and this regulation punishes those drivers that break the new regulation. -This law will directly affect me so much as if I was in violation of the law; I can face an additional $200 in the ticket fee just for being in violation. This fee does not include the actual speeding ticket. 2. Describe the proposal/change -The new law will increase the amount of money that an individual pays along with the speeding ticket fee. The proposal is in place to decrease the number of deaths and accidents from the result of driving above the given speed limit. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. -I am in favor of the new super speeder regulation. I believe this law will decrease the amount of ‘speeders’ on Georgia highways. Georgia has a high rate of motor vehicle accidents a day and with a new law that will punish these drivers with higher fines, I believe that more drivers will take caution and actually...
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...mid-90’s the word information super highway was the buzz word. I was very young and clueless when I started hearing about the information super highway. I understood the terms highway and super, however I didn’t get the totality of what an information superhighway encompassed. The business dictionary defines information superhighway as "Internet-type global network of computers that, potentially, will connect most of world's individuals, firms, and organizations. It is envisioned to provide very high speed access to information in all forms (text, graphics, audio, video) via a telephone or wireless connection. The term was first used in 1985 by the 45th US Vice President (1993-2001) Al Gore (born 1948) in an American context where every citizen is aimed to be so connected". As a kid, I hardly knew what a personal computer was, but I was kind of familiar with a word processor. I became a little familiar with the Apple computer because of a work study program that I was involved in. Based on the information I had at that time, I thought a computer was something that you stored information solely for an individual’s use. While I was familiar with using my computer at work to interface with other departments within the organization, I had no idea that the electronic information system would one day be an absolute necessity in my everyday life, both at work and in my personal life. I didn’t know that I would rely so heavily upon information technology to further...
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...On 7/27/2016 at 2:44 am the Pascagoula Police department reported to the Gautier Police Department that a black 2013 Hyundai Elantra was reported stolen approximately five minutes prior to the pass on of the information. The vehicle was believed to be heading west on highway 90 into Gautier. I Officer Hunter spotted a vehicle matching the description of the stolen vehicle at the intersection of Dolphin Rd and U.S Highway 90. The vehicle did not have headlights on and was traveling west on highway 90 at approximately 50 mph. After running the tag dispatch confirmed that the vehicle (Ms Tag JKU478) was the vehicle stolen from Pascagoula. I activated lights and siren and began following the vehicle. The vehicle proceeded west on U.S 90 Sgt...
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...favorite food of many Filipinos, according to European nutrition research on the eating habits of people with cancer of the mouth, esophagus, throat or colon, showed those who ate pizza at least once a week had less chance of developing cancer. B. Name and Location of the Firm A business name is one of the most essential things to be prepared in starting a business. PIZZAPA came from the words, pizza and pasta which serve as the specialty of our business. Aside from that the reason why we choose that name “PIZZAPA” because it is originated from the word “Pizza pa” (pizza + isa pa = PIZAPA) so that customers would easily recognize what is our product. The exact location of the said business will be at area situated at Maharlika Highway Brgy Burgos, Lopez, Quezon. This site is appropriate for its accessibility to its target market. C. Nature of the Product and Service offered PIZZAPA is a midscale pizza shop offers the casual dining experience at an affordable cost. As the name...
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...The Information Overload This paper discusses changes that corporations may undertake to mitigate information overload. What I intend to show here is that it would be prudent of a corporation to make changes to social systems in order to return to a more productive state of organization. Certainly technical systems play an important role in controlling what information is necessary to assist in the scope of an individual’s specific work goal for the corporation. As the old adage goes, “garbage in, garbage out” and technical influences, such as fire walls, spam filters, permission and security settings can minimize or eliminate all together both input and output garbage as it were. I have served over 20 years in the Army, and continue to work for the DoD for example, the internet used for everyday business is very restrictive, you are not likely to get overloaded with useless information on this media, there are some exceptions that may allow you to move beyond the necessary parameters for safe computing, however, the network monitoring systems in place would have human intervention to your location within the hour. While imposing technical influences on computer systems through a well established IT program in a corporation is a must do task for any organization, social systems must be in place and supportive of the technical systems in order to successfully mitigate information overload. What I am saying here is that employees must have a corporation success oriented attitude...
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...world. It is used not only for research but communication as well. Electronic newspaper, advertisements and search engines are also available. Electronic mails (E-mail) and chatting are the examples of modes of communication found in the Internet. The Internet is no just an online service through the “Mainframe Computers”. Internet not just holds lot of users at once but also provides thousands of services, sucha as online encyclopedia, real time stock quotes, and share ware program all at one site. This great window of service and networking access opportunity makes the Internet too popular. They are known as “Matrix”, “The Cyberspace”, “The Information Super Highway”, and the “Information Infrastructure”. The Internet provides a capability so powerful and general that it can be used for almost any purpose that depends on information, and it is accessible to every individual who connects to one of its constituent works. These are reasons enough why the Internet affects the study habits of the Cebu Technological University students and the addiction to it. With the improvement and advantages, the researchers could make their investigation easier and faster especially to the Third Year students taking up Bachelor in Idustrial Technology major in Computer...
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...Ufos and People Almost every civilization in history that has kept a written history has recorded the sightings of strange objects and lights in the skies. These objects have been described as glowing wheels, colored balls of light, and disk shaped objects. Today unexplained aerial phenomena are generally referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFO's) or flying saucers. The effects of extra terrestrial sightings can have an adverse effect on people if influenced the wrong way. No solid proof has shown that UFO's are real, but many sightings cannot be proven otherwise. The media, stories, or one's own experience may often influence what one believes. The government once stated that they had captured extra terrestrials. (60 minutes, CBS) On the contrary, most scientists now agree that almost all sightings and stories of extra terrestrials are not authentic. The United States government has records of thousands of UFO sightings since 1948, including photos of alleged UFOs and interviews with people who claim to have seen them. Since UFOs were considered a potential security risk, the report on these sightings was originally classified as secret. (Craig, 917) When the report was later declassified it showed that 90 percent of all UFO sightings could be easily explained. Most of the sightings turned out to be celestial objects, such as stars or bright planets like Venus, or atmospheric events such as auroras or meteors falling through the atmosphere. Many other sightings turned...
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...Millions of pixels on a tiny screen, information being passed back and forth at the speed of light in fiber optic lines and network cables. Data full of nothing but 1’s and 0’s that enter your computer and get processed in nanoseconds, all so you can see that crazy cat video that makes you scream with joy. As a people we don’t fully understand what it takes to process all the data that comes through the internet. Older generations are mystified and confused at the wonders and horrors it has to hold. Unfortunately when a new technology confuses people they tend to lash out and completely reject the technology altogether. The older generations are claiming that the internet is dumbing down the younger generation. However, take a look back in time and the same was said about the printing press back during its invention. Fear of a new technology is not a new idea. Throughout the ages you can see people afraid of accepting new ideas or new machines out of fear that they do not understand them. This trend is so bad that sometimes a great idea will spark and an item will be created, but due to the fear of the unknown some ideas have failed and later re-booted as acceptance grew for the new idea. The internet is nothing but an information super highway and you get out of it what you put in. Wikipedia made its self the biggest fountain of knowledge on the internet or in any book form in just under 10 years, and an accumulated 100 million hours editing fixing changing and posting. During...
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...Modem | b. | Electronic mail | m. | Network | c. | Fax | n. | Online | d. | Hacker | o. | Protocol | e. | Home page | p. | Snail mail | f. | Hub | q. | Telecommunications | g. | Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) | r. | Theme | h. | Information Super Highway | s. | Uniform Resource Locator (URL) | i. | Internet | t. | Virus | j. | Intranet | u. | World Wide Web (WWW) | k. | Local Area Network (LAN) | ____ 1. the electronic preparation and sending of messages, documents, or images; the use of a computer to send and receive messages ____ 2. the rules that must be observed for two electronic devices to communicate with each other ____ 3. a term used for a person who illegally tries to access and sometimes damage the files on a remote system, using telecommunications technology ____ 4. another name for the Internet ____ 5. communications between individual computer users, facilitated by the use of a computer, modem, and telephone line. ____ 6. a facsimile machine; the document generated by such a machine ____ 7. a hidden, and often destructive, computer program that can infect or spread to other computer systems ____ 8. the first page of a web site that contains general information as well as links to other related pages ____ 9. the programming language used to write content for the world wide web ____ 10. connected and ready to receive and/or transmit data ____ 11. the electronic transmission of lessons over...
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...Translating a Letter CMGT/554 Dr. Jairo Garcia University of Phoenix August 30th, 2015 By Scott Schuelke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 Much like electricity, radio waves transmit the information in the form of pulses. In this case there is no voltage or amperes to produce watts of power. With radio or sound waves there is amplitude the decibels (dB) of the wave, frequency (Hz) the number of waves per second, and the phase or direction in which the wave begins. As the radio or sound wave dB increases it causes a spike to indicate the value of 1 in this representation, a normal pulse of sound with no spike represents a 0 along the phase. Much like electricity, radio waves transmit the information in the form of pulses. In this case there is no voltage or amperes to produce watts of power. With radio or sound waves there is amplitude the decibels (dB) of the wave, frequency (Hz) the number of waves per second, and the phase or direction in which the wave begins. As the radio or sound wave dB increases it causes a spike to indicate the value of 1 in this representation, a normal pulse of sound with no spike represents a 0 along the phase. -5 volts -5 volts +5 volts +5 volts Electrical transmission of the letter “A” using the ASCII numbering for the letter A. In the electrical diagram a positive voltage resembles the number 1 and the negative side a 0. In this case the ASCII unit for the letter A would be 01000001. A copper wire transmits electricity...
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...That means your super cool helmet, your killer handle bars or some other accessory may be unsafe. Helmet and accessory recalls are serious. Helmets are subject to recalls if they fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. These helmets may not adequately protect a user in the event of a head impact during a crash. Recalled accessories may have parts that can fail or come loose, or present some other serious safety issue. False, missing or incomplete labeling...
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...telecommunication was the telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. This invention would later open the door to a variety of different types of communications. Another important milestone was the created of the Bell Company monopoly in 1888. By securing patents the company was able to manufacture equipment and provide telephone services with no competition. Most young people today do not remember a time before touch tone service. They take the menu prompt they hear when calling a company for granted. This touch-tone service did not exist until 1963. We can now choose one for accounting or two for the help desk. The next major milestone in telecommunications is the internet. Many think of the internet as the “information super highway” we use today. The Internet was created in 1969 as a result of the Cold War. It was created to be an effective form of communication in case of a nuclear war. It was meant to be used by the military, but with the introduction of a new interface in the 1990s even the most unsophisticated users to “surf” the web with their personal computer. The AT&T monopoly, the parent company of the Bell system, which was created in 1888 was finally dissolved in 1984. Now this is important because healthy competition helps the industry grow and flourish. The technology gets better as one company tries to build something bigger and better to one up the...
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...about segmenting the market on benefits sought and about how to win the diffusion of innovation race. Cars are used for many different purposes. Is there a profitable usage segment out there that would be happy with the current performance limits of today’s electric car? To think about this let us think about short-distance commuting. People commute downtown and back but public transportation is and will be a serious competitor to urban eCar commuting. People also commute to major suburban business campuses where several thousand employees from the same company work together. The majority are likely to live within 20 miles of their work. They want an electric car that can be taken on a street route to work and for short distances on highways and then used to go shopping or pick kids up, a second car that only needs a daily range of 80 miles. People also commute to Universities. The great majority of students live within 20 miles of a campus. Many campuses have large car parks and...
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...Net Cash for Period 8 THE DEAL 8 40 / 60 8 Conclusion 9 Deal of a Lifetime 9 References 10 APPENDIX A 12 APPENDIX A 13 Market Analysis 13 APPENDIX B 31 APPENDIX B 32 Competition Analysis 32 UNION STREET CAFE 33 DEE’S DINER INTERVIEW 34 BOB EVANS INTERVIEW 35 APPENDIX C 36 APPENDIX C 37 Locations 37 LOCATIONS 38 APPENDIX D 40 APPENDIX D 41 Financial Spreadsheets 41 APPENDIX E APPENDIX E 53 APPENDIX E 54 Insurance 54 ULTRAFLEX PACKAGE POLICY 54 APPENDIX F 64 APPENDIX F 65 ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS 65 APPENDIX G 92 APPENDIX G 93 TAX FORMS 93 APPENDIX H 117 APPENDIX H 118 CORPORATE INFORMATION 118 HISTORY 118 APPENDIX I 119 APPENDIX I 120 FRANCHISE INFORMATION 121 FRANCHISE PROGRAMS 121 APPENDIX J 127...
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