Ultra-thin fiber-optic cables have been deployed across Ukraine’s front line, marking a significant development in the ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...

Fiber-optic networks are coming to more areas every year, and as more utility companies (think internet service providers and cable TV companies) add the feature as an option, more people are ...

The more than 1.2 million km of fiber-optic cables that crisscross the planet carry the world's phone calls, internet signals and data. But this summer, researchers published the eerie sounds of blue ...

Fiber uses fiber-optic lines that transmit data at the speed of light, whereas cable uses coaxial cables, which are traditionally used for TV service. Fiber typically offers faster upload and download ...

The UK's leading telecoms provider BT has been trialing a new type of optical fiber that could significantly boost the performance of future 5G networks. Called hollow core fiber, the technology ...

The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new study. In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the ...

Tiny fiber-optic cables on seabed can do a lot more than you can imagine as researchers have found that these underwater ...

An enthusiast is DIYing his own Steam Machine through ancient, lost methods known as cables that turn his existing PC into ...

Whether utility companies are allowed to install underground fiber-optic cable on railroad-owned land with a public ...

The city of Fremont is set to award a roughly $7.7 million grant to a New Jersey-based internet provider to operate the ...