Optical Fiber Is Gold To Upstate New York
11 September 2000 - 12:30pm
An usual partnership between Corning Inc. and upstate New York government has transformed its Southern Tier hometown into a boom town.
Corning is a gorgeous antique of a community in the Chemung Valley in upstate New York, 135 miles southeast of Buffalo. Corning is luckier than Buffalo or Binghamton or Baldwinsville -- it's home to Corning Inc. -- which, as the world's largest producer of optical fiber, is essentially laying the pavement for the information superhighway. Good planning paved the way for this success story.
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The Buffalo News, September 11, 2000
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