Sentence examples for backbones- from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, though, a dozen new national fibre backbones had been constructed in America, with a similar proliferation in western Europe.

But in this case there is a bottleneck: the "last mile" between the backbones and millions of home and small-business users.

They are actually chordates in other words, part of the same group of animals as humans, even though they do not have backbones.

That suggested they formed from interactions between bits of the backbones, rather than the variable side chains.Dr Dobson then went a step further and showed that even proteins that had nothing to do with disease could form amyloid through backbone interactions.

Last month the BGI, in China, announced it would take on the first 100 of these, for delivery within two years.Dr Haussler's aim is to work out the core vertebrate genome and see how it has been modified to produce the incredible diversity of animals with backbones.

Both companies credit the proliferation of social networks, the craze for internet searching, multimedia downloading, and the widespread adoption of P2P sharing for the surge in new business.While major internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast all plan to upgrade their backbones, it will be a year or two before improvements begin to show.

This involves a lot more investment rival operators need their own high-speed "backbones" to link up the exchanges but allows them to differentiate themselves from BT. Uptake of LLU has, however, been slow: fewer than 10,000 lines have been unbundled.Last week, BT said it would reduce the prices of unbundled loops by around 35% from June 1st, with further cuts to come.

It would much rather its rivals simply resold its broadband products, or built their own backbones and used LLU.With its new LLU prices, says Andrew Darley of ING, an investment bank, BT has now made LLU cheaper than DataStream.

That is when righteous politicians feel the need to do something, bankers' frail balance-sheets and vivid memories make them eschew risk, and regulators have their backbones stiffened by public disapproval of past laxity.But we reform under the delusion that the regulated, and the markets they operate in, are static and passive, and that the regulatory environment will not vary with the cycle.

Unless, that is, Bolivia's more responsible politicians rediscover their backbones.

Today only 2% or so of American homes have high-speed Internet connections that can make use of fast backbones.