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About Fiber Optics

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Does LUS currently utilitize fiber optics?

LUS is proud to be a technology leader as the first municipality in Louisiana to build a 100% fiber-optic network. LUS employees operate and maintain this network.

In 1998, the City-Parish Council authorized LUS to expand its infrastructure beyond traditional utilities by constructing a 65-mile, 96-strand SONET-based telecommunications system (LUS Powered Network) with direct connections to Tier 1 providers. The network reaches within one mile of most businesses and residences in the City of Lafayette including major areas of development and primary traffic routes.

The network began transmitting working traffic in December 2000 including data from the LUS electric transmission and distribution system. In January 2002, LUS activated the LUS Powered Network for wholesale and governmental telecommunication customers.

Is this technology currently available in Lafayette?

No. This Fiber to the Home & Business technology is not currently available and current telecommunications providers have stated that they do not have plans to execute such a network in a city the size of Lafayette.

What is fiber optics?

Fiber-optics is hair-thin filaments of very pure glass or plastic used to transport pulses of light, carrying vast amounts of data.

Fiber optic communications is different from any other data transmission method, in that it does not use electricity to transmit information. Instead of electrical signals, modulated light is used to quickly transmit data over long distances through an insulated glass fiber. Fiber provides much faster data transfer speeds when compared to traditional interconnection media such as copper wire, coaxial cable or wireless. Fiber optics can support voice, video, and data all at once over a single line.

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Will there be a better technology soon after this project is completed?

There is no technology that comes close to the bandwidth capacity of fiber.