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The City of Two Rivers and the Two Rivers School
District cooperated on the installation of our
city-wide system of 96 strands of fiber optic.
The network is also available to local
businesses. Other fiber facilities have been
installed in the community by Lakefield
Communications and Verizon. |
Nearly 60 strands
of fiber are available for lease in many areas
of the City for a variety of needs - challenge
us to meet yours. As we continue to plan
expansion of the system we can work with you to
meet your fiber needs. |
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Two Rivers is one of the few
competitive local exchange carriers for fiber in
Wisconsin. Contact us for information about how
we can serve you. |
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Fiber
Network Existing and Proposed
9.5 miles of fiber is already
installed in the South, Central, North and East
sides of the City. As we continue to expand, we
can work to meet your needs.
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for Large Map
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Fiber
Basics
Fiber-optics uses light pulses to transmit
information down lines made of glass fiber instead
of using electronic pulses to transmit information
down copper lines. Not only is this much faster, but
fiber optic cables can carry many times more
information than possible with traditional copper
wires. An optical fiber is a flexible filament of
very clear glass. This filament of glass is a little
thicker than a human hair. They are arranged in
bundles called optical cables.
Typical Fiber
Cable
The
fiber is wrapped in a material that reflects light
(cladding), so the light travels by constantly
reflecting off the cladding. Because the cladding
does not absorb any light, the light wave can travel
great distances.
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Go
here if you would like
to learn a lot more about fiber optics. |
It
would take 2 metric tons of copper wire to transmit
the amount of information handled by a little more
than a pound of fiber.
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