Your home internet just became a dial-up relic overnight. Japanese researchers at NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), working with Sumitomo Electric, shattered ...

Forward-looking: Fiber optic cables are the backbone of modern internet-based communications, moving zettabytes of data per year from every corner of the digital world. Fiber optic technology must ...

Engineers have set a new speed record for data transmission through a standard diameter optical fiber. By beaming 55 “modes” of signals down a single-core optical fiber, the team was able to transmit ...

There is enormous interest in space-based internet, but the web wouldn't work without its fiber optic backbone. These cables are ideal for shuffling large volumes of data around, and it's a relatively ...

Scientists break data transmission rate world record for a second time this year — boosting fiber-optic speeds by 25% to a staggering 402 Tbps. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

ELKHART, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surf Internet ® has reached 250,000 homes passed with fiber-optic internet across Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, its strongest construction year to date and a ...

A team of international researchers say they’ve set a new world speed record for an industrial standard optical fiber that’s as thick as a human hair and contains a groundbreaking 19 cores. All of the ...

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