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Photos: Take a tour through BT's 'secret WWII tunnels'
Photo The trunk exchange was the terminal for the first transatlantic cable, called TAT1, according to Subterranea Britannica society. The tunnels are shown above being constructed in the 1940s. During their 60-year history,... [20 Oct 2008]
Photos: Some creative uses for USB ports
Photo Sadly the slippers are only available up to size 10 and only come with a metre long cable. The switch can also be configured to carry out different tasks and with a whopping six-foot cable you can hide... [18 Aug 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo This funky looking car is charged using the cable that comes out of the car's front grille. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest cars in the world - on display at this week's British International... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo The fibre runs through these cable ducts - which are too wide for rats to get its teeth around, so no danger of outages caused by hungry vermin. silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water... [22 Jul 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured are the different layers of the cable, including the fibreoptic itself, a protective steel sheath, copper sheet which carries 12kV of charge to power the optical amplifiers, and finally white plastic insulation. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive
Photo Installing an internet connection can be difficult - especially if the cable is about 9,000km long and very deep underwater. The Ile de Sein (pictured) is a massive ship that sports a crew of 60, who work in shifts to... [14 Apr 2008]
Photos: Broadband goes down the drain
Photo It's a common sight - streets ripped up so companies can lay cable. Putting fibre optic cable into sewer pipes is faster and cheaper than digging up the road to lay cable, according to... [16 Nov 2006]
Photos: The secrets of BT Labs
Photo It has also been used to help test Rolls-Royce engines - wrapped in copper to shield the cable from the intense heat - by checking the engine is making the right noise. To show off some of the gee-whizz stuff being... [02 Oct 2006]
Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly
Photo Here Tony Soady, BT Wholesale client development manager and a long-serving member of the Goonhilly team, holds a chunk of the cable. This is Guinevere, aka Goonhilly 3, one of the dishes at BT's Goonhilly satellite... [22 Aug 2006]
