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What advantage does this technology offer over alternative ANSWERS What advantage does this technology offer over alternative infrastructures? • Speed (custom built to your needs, guaranteed) What advantages are there to connecting to the Agilis network? The applications of new technology promise to be as pervasive as those evolving from the discovery of electricity. At the centre of this transformation is the development of fibre optics and its capacity to transmit and receive vast amounts of data with the highest levels of speed, reliability and security. Greater Sudbury’s high-speed, broadband, fibre optic telecommunications network is a state-of-the-industry network that allows you to take advantage of new data, Internet, voice and video applications and scale your capacity needs as your business grows. What is a Network Access Provider? Typically, a Network Access provider provides the connection from your building to a high-speed telecommunications network. As Network Access Provider for Greater Sudbury’s network, our focus is building and maintaining a high capacity, fibre optic broadband telecommunications network to meet the present and future networking and Internet demands of the Greater Sudbury business community. What is fibre optic technology? Fiber optics (optical fibers) are long, thin strands of very pure glass about the diameter of a human hair. They are arranged in bundles called optical cables and used to transmit light signals over long distances. Fibre Optics have several advantages over conventional cable: • unlike electrical signals in copper wires, light signals from one fiber do not interfere with those of other fibers in the same cable. Optical fibers are immune to electromagnetic interference (from lightning, nearby electric motors, and similar sources), and tapping into them is more easily detected. • signals in optical fibers degrade less, lower-power transmitters can be used instead of the high-voltage electrical transmitters needed for copper wires. • no electricity is passed through optical fibers, there is no fire hazard. • one of the most secure connections available • cables of optical fibers can be made smaller and lighter than conventional cables using copper wires or coaxial tubes, yet they can carry much more information, making them useful for transmitting large amounts of data between computers and for carrying data-intensive television pictures or many simultaneous phone conversations. Because of these advantages, you see fiber optics in many industries, most notably telecommunications and computer networks. It is the future of communications! Why is it considered to be the technology of the future? Fibre optics is the technology of the future! Fibre optics technology is bandwidth intensive. The capacity and processing power of computers continue to grow. New data, Internet, voice and video applications continue to demonstrate the advantages for your business. Fast, reliable and secure communications is becoming imperative to achieving economies in day-to-day business operations. More users, more powerful computers and larger applications leads to greater bandwidth requirements. It is definitely the technology to empower your business to grow forward!
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