(TNS) — Residents of several northern Alaska communities experienced cell and Internet service disruptions Tuesday after another fiber optic breakage. Broadband provider Quintillion noticed an outage ...

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 ...

A new type of hollow optical fibre promises to boost the amount of data that can be carried in each glass strand, and to do so over longer distances. This could help to make telecommunications systems ...

Why it matters: Data transfer speeds over fiber optic cables seem relatively finite. After all, even light has a speed limit. There's only so much data that can be crammed into a light package and ...

ENID, Okla. — The newly franchised broadband company officially will begin construction Thursday on its state-of-the-art, fiber cable system set to run throughout Enid. Bluepeak CEO Rich Fish will be ...

Researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. have teamed up with fiber engineers from Microsoft Azure to reduce attenuation in optical cables, where weakened signal power leads to data ...