Tehran Times
July 7 2005
National fiber optics network to be operational soon
Tehran Times Economic Desk
TEHRAN – Iran’s 31,000 km fiber-optic cable network will soon be
operational, Fars News Agency (FNA) reported. `The network will link
all the cities, provinces, and border points together, once the
required infrastructures for implementing this plan are fully taken
care of. The network is to be extended from Bandar Genaveh in Iran
all the way to Kuwait, and the extension of it would also reach other
neighboring countries such as Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Armenia.’
After the invention of laser in the early 1960s, the idea of
employing fiber optics for relaying information took shape gradually.
According to the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI), the
research in this field assumed its initial theoretical development in
the early 1980s. The work eventually led to the establishment of
Fiber Optics Production Complex in Punak area of Tehran, and the
actual production with the capacity of 50,000 km began in 1994.
Fiber optics is used in the form of cables made of thin glass or
plastic fibers for sending information; however, it does lend itself
to be used in the other fields such as measuring electrical currents
and medical and military applications.