Breaking Ground: How are fiber-optic cables made?
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Bringing high-speed internet access to every U.S. household is one goal of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. To do that, we’re gonna need a lot more fiber-optic cables. Per the Build America Buy America Act, the $42 billion in federal funding designated for expanding high-speed internet access has to be spent on American-made cables and the optical fibers that make them up. So in this episode, we’ll visit a factory in Claremont, North Carolina, to see how they’re made and learn why the U.S. wants fiber prioritized over other ways to connect to the internet.
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| 1:36.1 | You know, the thing about this job is that you get to go places and you get to talk to people that make |
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| 1:44.6 | Sometimes that's people in private companies, sometimes it's people in government, |
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| 1:58.4 | the broadband equity access and deployment program, BED for short, it's part of the bipartisan infrastructure |
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