Fiber cables can also carry more data than a bundle of copper cables of the same diameter. For traditional cable, data is transmitted via electricity. It uses coaxial cables to transmit data.

The Washington Post visited the Corning factory in Midland, N.C. — the largest optical fiber facility in the United States — to see how these cables are made.

Both sides are now using large numbers of attack drones controlled via fiber optic cables which are immune to radio jamming ...

“In the last 60 days, somebody came down the road and put a fiber-optic cable in my front yard,” he said. “I do appreciate the irony of it. And I will say that I’m looking forward to which ...

Your fiber optic cable may be one of two sizes. The outer diameter of the more robust cable is about the size of a standard No. 2 pencil. A much smaller cable can also snake its way through your home.

When a spectrometer is being configured for a given experiment, one of the commonly overlooked considerations is in selecting the best fiber optic cable. While there are many different factors to ...

The conduit and cable system would consist of three 1.25 inch-diameter high-density polyethylene buried conduits that contain the fiber optic cables. Legend Cider, ...

Fiber-optic cables, which are about the diameter of a garden hose, enclose multiple pairs of these fibers. Google’s new cable is so fast because it carries more fiber pairs.

Amazon’s plans to install an undersea fiber-optic cable off the Tillamook County coast gained approval from state leaders last week, though with some reluctance. During a state land board ...

To understand how it works, one has to look more closely at how the data actually passes through the cables. A standard fiber-optic cable laid across land consists of 144 individual glass fibers ...