By Michelle Collier, RCDD. Fiber optic cable provides a low loss medium for high-speed communications. While. the continuous fiber cable itself is low loss, terminations at each access point provide a. potential Achilles heel. The biggest cause of signal loss across fiber optic connectors is. contamination.
The blue crab's scientific name, Callinectes sapidus, is from Latin and Greek: calli, beautiful; nectes, swimmer; and sapidus, savory-beautiful, savory swimmer. Like insects, blue crabs have stalked compound eyes and can see in almost every direction at once.
The Florida Brown Snake has historically had other scientific names, including Tropidonotus dekayi, Tropidonatus dekayi, Storeria dekayi, Ischnognathus dekayi, Storeria tropica and Storeria dekayi victa. They are known to inhabit Florida, Georgia and perhaps other southern coastal states.