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 ...

At least four undersea fiber optic cables, which carry approximately 97% of all Internet traffic, were damaged last week in the Red Sea, telecommunications providers are reporting, and instability in ...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. has announced the SEL-2820 Fiber-Optic V-Pin Transceiver is now available for purchase with a list price of $150. This transceiver allows instrumentation and ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

The global network of seafloor cables may be good for more than ferrying digital communication between continents. These fiber-optic cables could also serve as underwater earthquake detectors, ...

Healthy corals are colorful and full of life. And under normal conditions, corals and algae depend on one another. The corals offer the algae protection and the photosynthesizing algae provide the ...

A few days ago, Google announced that it was investing in a $300 million undersea fiber optical cable system called FASTER. The FASTER cable system will offer much higher broadband speeds for ...

Congress has authorized trillions of dollars in new spending through the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS and Science Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In the series “Breaking Ground,” ...

The UK's leading telecoms provider BT has been trialing a new type of optical fiber that could significantly boost the performance of future 5G networks. Called hollow core fiber, the technology ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. The global telecommunications industry faces an imminent crisis in the growth of mobile data traffic, and the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Verizon customers in Los Angeles County reported service outages after vandalism of fiber optic cables, the ...