An optical fiber ribbon is made by arranging optical fibers, each as thin as a human hair, in a horizontal row and bonding them together at regular intervals. When you hold the ribbon by both ends and spread it out, it resembles a spider's web, hence the name Spider Web Ribbon™. A Ukrainian front-line city has been smothered by a giant web of fibre optic cable from hundreds of drone battles in the skies. Video footage of Lyman, Donetsk, shows entire rows of houses and a field draped in sheets of translucent wire left behind by the aircraft. It is compliant with the latest issue of the outside plant cable standard, Telcordia GR-20. The brigade stated the video was filmed by pilots from its reconnaissance company. "The intensity of the fighting can now be measured not so much by destroyed. The battlefields in Ukraine are being left strewn with 'spider web' like cables as a terrifying new type of weapon is being deployed. Through ongoing technological innovation, Fujikura.
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