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  2. Multi-mode optical fiber - Wikipedia

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    The equipment used for communications over multi-mode optical fiber is less expensive than that for single-mode optical fiber. [1] Typical transmission speed and distance limits are 100 Mbit/s for distances up to 2 km (), 1 Gbit/s up to 1000 m, and 10 Gbit/s up to 550 m.

  3. Browser speed test - Wikipedia

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    A browser speed test is a computer benchmark that scores the performance of a web browser, by measuring the browser's efficiency in completing a predefined list of tasks. In general the testing software is available online, located on a website, where different algorithms are loaded and performed in the browser client.

  4. Prodigy (online service) - Wikipedia

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    The roots of Prodigy date to 1980 when broadcaster CBS and telecommunications firm AT&T Corporation formed a joint venture named Venture One in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. [5] The company conducted a market test of 100 homes in Ridgewood, New Jersey [6] to gauge consumer interest in a Videotex-based TV set-top device that would allow consumers to shop at home and receive news, sports and weather.

  5. Counter-Strike 2 - Wikipedia

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    A screenshot of Counter-Strike 2, demonstrating gameplay from the Terrorist side on the map Anubis. Note the volumetric smoke cloud, a feature new to Counter-Strike 2 . Counter-Strike 2 is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter , [ 1 ] in which two teams, the Counter-Terrorists and the Terrorists, compete to complete different objectives ...

  6. Google data centers - Wikipedia

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    Google data centers are the large data center facilities Google uses to provide their services, which combine large drives, computer nodes organized in aisles of racks, internal and external networking, environmental controls (mainly cooling and humidification control), and operations software (especially as concerns load balancing and fault tolerance).

  7. Transatlantic communications cable - Wikipedia

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    When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by Cyrus West Field, it operated for only three weeks; a subsequent attempt in 1866 was more successful. [citation needed] On July 13, 1866 the cable laying ship Great Eastern sailed out of Valentia Island, Ireland and on July 27 landed at Heart's Content in Newfoundland, completing the first lasting connection across the Atlantic.

  8. Vande Bharat (trainset) - Wikipedia

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    During its trial runs, Train 18 became the fastest EMU train in India after attaining a speed of 180 km/h, during its test run at the Kota-Sawai Madhopur section. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] This speed was 4 km/h shy of India's overall best record of 184 km/h achieved by a WAP-5 Class locomotive back in 1997.

  9. Airbus A350 - Wikipedia

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    The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine airliner developed and produced by Airbus.The initial A350 design proposed in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the Airbus A330 with composite wings and new engines.