You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern University have shown that quantum teleportation can work inside fiber-optic ...

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 ...

According to a story by Margo Anderson in IEEE Spectrum this week, a new world record for fiber optics data rate has been set – 33 percent better than the previous record and 4x faster than commercial ...

Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, groundwater mapping, earthquake detection, and monitoring ...

Andreas Fichtner strips a cable of its protective sheath, exposing a glass core thinner than a hair — a fragile, 4-kilometer-long fiber that’s about to be fused to another. It’s a fiddly task better ...

Some say fiber-optic internet is the gold standard. But new Trump administration rules paved the way for more Starlinks.

FARGO — Two fiber-optic internet companies plan to install networks in Fargo starting this summer. According to a release from the city of Fargo, Gateway Fiber and Ubiquity Fiber plan to separately ...

Damage to fiber optic lines operated by AT&T was to blame for the statewide outages, which lasted more than two hours on Thursday, officials said. By Alexandra E. Petri They’ve been a mainstay in ...