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“This project from Canadian Fiber Optics means that for the residential and business communities of Valleyview, new opportunities are available in education, innovation, and growth. Every investment that helps overcome the urban-rural divide is important and I’m excited to see this project move forward.”

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If Canada is going to thrive, compete, and build back better, the people and businesses in rural communities need fast, reliable fiber internet networks.

Field of View or Field Diameter is very important in microscopy as it is a more meaningful number than "magnification". Field diameter is simply the number of millimeters or micrometers you will see in your whole field of view when looking into the eyepiece lens. It is just as if you put a ruler under the microscope and counted the number of lines.

Get a metric ruler and place it on the stage of your microscope. Illuminate from above (if you are using a compound microscope, get a transparent ruler or illuminate it with a flashlight). See how many millimeters you can see from left to right. What would be the field of view of this image? (Answer located at bottom of page).

If rural Canada is going to survive, thrive, and compete economically, the people and businesses in these communities need fast, reliable internet networks. Canadian Fiber Optics funds, designs, builds, and operates fiber networks to get Canada connected faster, with fiber technology and fewer government dollars.

This means that an object 20mm (2cm, or about 3/4 inch) wide would fill up the whole viewing area at 10x and an object about 6.7mm wide would fill up the whole area at 30x. As you can see, having the highest power may not be best for your particular application. When you move to greater magnifications, you sacrifice field of view.

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Canadian Fiber Optics did what they said they would do. Their contract terms were clear and they delivered slightly ahead of schedule and right on budget, we’ll use them again.

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This page with pennies at different magnifications might be helpful to get a visual idea of what you can see at different magnifications.

At Canadian Fiber Optics, we believe rural Canada deserves equal access to the economic and social benefits of the internet. Unlike other companies, we focus only on connecting rural Canadian communities and enterprises with high-speed fiber networks.

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Wireless solutions aren’t the only solutions for rural Canada.We make rural fiber networks possible with a three-step plan for connecting communities and enterprises.

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High power microscopes usually have 10x eyepieces lenses, so there is only one column above the 4x objective. If you wanted to look at an amoeba that is 150µm long (0.15mm) then you would use either the 40x or 100x objectives. There are 25mm in an inch and there are 1,000um (micrometers) in a single millimeter.

Instead of using a cookie-cutter network design across projects, we design unique solutions based on the challenges and opportunities in each rural area.

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The chart below will tell you (approximately) what to expect when looking through a microscope with varying combinations of eyepieces and objective lenses. As an example (in green below), a dual power stereo microscope with 10x eyepiece lenses and 1x and 3x combinations of objective lenses, would have total powers of 10x and 30x and your field of view would be 20mm and 6.7mm respectively.

Wireless solutions aren’t the only solutions for rural Canada.We make rural fiber networks possible with a three-step plan for connecting communities and enterprises.

We build our networks and manage operations in-house to keep residents and businesses connected to fast, reliable internet with better customer service.

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“High-speed internet is a need-to-have versus a nice-to-have for our residents and businesses, which is why we approved the broadband strategy and are investing up to $7.3 million for the pilot project area. Sturgeon County is very excited to be working with Canadian Fiber Optics to help fulfill Council’s vision for a connected community. Their experience with rural connectivity solutions and appreciation of the challenges faced by rural communities made them a clear front-runner for the Sturgeon County broadband project.”

Other considerations: The working distance is the distance from the bottom of the microscope (lens) to the part of the specimen that is in focus. As you increase the magnification, you decrease the working distance. If you need to work under the microscope, you will need a large working distance. Some special microscopes have extended working distances for these purposes. Zoom microscopes have a fixed working distance throughout the zoom range. When using a 100x objective lens (1000x total power) your working distance might only be 0.04mm (40µm). The lens will be extremely close to the specimen! The working distance and the amount of vertical motion of the microscope will also affect the maximum specimen height. Maximum specimen height is how tall an object you can put on the stage and still be able to focus on the top part of the specimen.

We collaborate with enterprise and community leaders to ensure any network we build will be financially viable, better residents’ lives, and boost the economy.

“CFOC will not only speed up connectivity services for all existing businesses and residents alike with no interruptions or slow service through a 10 Gbps fiber optic network, it will also set our community up for growth opportunities enabling local and global commercial and industrial companies the ability to compete at international levels.  Here’s to our future as the Town is ready for all opportunities – we are open for business!!”

✓ Funding, designing, constructing, and operating our networks in-house to reduce the risks and costs for communities and enterprises

“Our team was experiencing internet problems, then we found Canadian Fiber Optics, which quickly resolved our connectivity issues, and our business began to increase. We highly recommend Canadian Fiber Optics if your business is facing similar problems. It changed everything for us!”