Posted on 02/04/2011 12:06:18 PM PST by Slyscribe
Fiber optics — a highflying sector in the dot-boom that crashed hard in the dot-bomb — is back, riding the rising tide of video and other data traffic over networks.
Shares of optical parts maker JDS Uniphase (JDSU) roared just like in the early dot-com days on Friday, jumping 25% in midafternoon trading after the company late Thursday reported Q4 results well above analyst views. JDSU's stock has soared 140% since August.
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underground fiber optics sounds a lot better than satellites and towers...
Go slowly here. My understanding was that there is a *lot* of dark fiber in the ground from the dot bomb era.
and vice-versa.
Blast from the past alert.
Look at the 4 year chart, it doesn’t look nearly as rosy. Good, but there are better stocks if you’re into risk.
I would post the 4 year if I knew how.
Put 25 or so 40 Gbps channels of DWDM on a single fiber strand. Put hundreds of fibers in a cable. Put a few cables into a single conduit. Dig a trench and lay 16 conduits.
But hardly any of that dark fiber is lit. But video traffic is causing huge increases in capacity demand adn that fiber must be lit. That’s why JDSU is soaring.
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