View. comments. The richest 80 people in the world have been revealed... and 35 of them are American. According to a new report from Oxfam International, the combined wealth of the 80 richest billionaires is the same as that of the bottom 50% of the Earth's population - 3.5 billion people.
Remote relay beacon. Dellis Tantor plants a remote relay beacon. Remote relay beacons were tall communication structures which could retransmit data through a line-of-sight network. Once deployed, the beacons would search out any nearby beacons and establish a laser connection thourgh which data could be transmitted.
The switchhook is the device that senses whether the handset or receiver is in its cradle. The term flash originated from the cord circuit of the early telephone switchboard that telephone company operators used to connect calls. The calling party and called party each had an indicator light on the cord circuit. When the subscriber cycled the telephone on-hook/off-hook, the light would flash.