You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

You know about fiber-optic cabling. You know it’s made up of glass strands that transmit data at the speed of light and with nearly unlimited bandwidth. So why aren’t you using it? It’s fragile. It’s ...

A worldwide shortage of fiber-optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, endangering companies’ ambitious plans to roll out state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure. Europe, ...

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 ...

A fiber cable cut in Park County left residents without 911 access for three hours. The situation was caused, in part, by the ...

Spectrum, which on Dec. 24 noted similar damage to lines in Chino Hills, is offering a $25,000 reward for information that ...

The war that began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has now entered its 3 years and 10 months, with new battlefield ...

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 ...

What started as a dispute over fiber-optic installation landed a woman in handcuffs after she allegedly refused to let crews ...

There are several kinds of internet technologies in use today, including satellite, DSL and fixed wireless, but none of them come close to cable and fiber when it comes to offering fast, reliable ...

RIGA - Information obtained by the Latvian State Police does not currently indicate that the ship in the port of Liepaja is connected with the damage of an optical cable in the Baltic Sea.