KEVLAR TO AID FIBER OPTIC CABLE PLACEMENT.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  June, 2001  

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According to an article in the Washington Post of May 30, Esi-Tel, the Eskom Enterprises telecommunications arm, says it should be relatively simple to string a fiber-optic cable all the way to Europe, without using submarine cables. At a Black IT Forum conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Eskom's executive manager Ron Coney explained their plans to become part of the second national operator (SNO).

"We can connect up to West Africa through existing high-voltage wires," he said, displaying a map of the African electricity network. Eskom has developed a process to ...

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