Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

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, ...

Hopkinton has become the latest town to approve a cable-TV franchise to Verizon, bringing the number of Massachusetts communities with access to Verizon’s FiOS TV service to 22. The Board of Selectmen ...

Vandals who slashed fiber-optic cables are being blamed for phone and internet service outages across Southern California’s high desert Sunday, according to officials. Officials for Spectrum, an ...

Several factors are driving the popularity of optical fiber cabling. Chief among those is the growth of high-tech applications that require the massive bandwidth fiber-optic cabling makes possible.

Beneath the mighty oceans across the world lie hidden something just as mighty: The submarine cables that have been carrying data traffic around the world and connecting countries. Though invisible, ...