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.

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

Laying an undersea cable in Spain, one of the 600,000-plus miles of fiber optic submarine cables. Photo: ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) Many miles off the western coast of the ...