Elgin is set to replace an aging microwave radio system with a high-speed fiber optic cable to transmit data used by public safety and utilities departments. The City Council Wednesday night voted 8-0 ...

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 ...

A research team from the University of Electro-Communications in Japan has invented a fiber optic system that transmits both data and power over the same cable. A research team from the University of ...

Anderson Productions systems manager Mike Hannau, pictured above, said his Bristol-based company relies on fiber optic cable to send international sports feeds to its neighboring client ESPN. PHOTOS ...

Google says the fiber-optic cable it's building across the Atlantic Ocean will be the fastest of its kind. When the cable goes live next year, the company estimates it will transmit around 250 ...

The data center and telecommunications industries are having trouble acquiring the optical fiber cables needed for network infrastructure, the result of lingering manufacturing and supply chain ...

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

Researchers have broken the current broadband speed record with a new development that allows data delivery up to 4.5 million times faster than currently possible. And they achieved it using standard ...

Scientists have turned a long-standing sci‑fi idea into working hardware, using pure light to move data wirelessly through the air instead of relying on radio waves or copper traces. The result is a ...

Fiber optic sensors - used in critical applications like detecting fires in tunnels, pinpointing leaks in pipelines and predicting landslides - are about to get even faster and more accurate. EPFL ...

tvONE has introduced new DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 active fiber-optic products. The newly launched tvONE Active Fiber Optic Cables provide integrators a choice of long-range DisplayPort 1.4 and ...