Fiber optic technology is the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, and recent innovations are propelling its capabilities to new heights. In the past few years, breakthroughs in materials, ...

Every child of the ’70s remembers the first mainstream application of fiber optics: Color-changing lamps that were as cheap as they were mesmerizing. Nowadays fiber has to handle more serious but just ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to develop a fiber-optic-equivalent communications backbone on a radio frequency carrier that can be deployed worldwide to give U.S. military forces ...

A fiber-optic backbone would support municipal operations to increase efficiency. The Waterloo Municipal Communications Utility plans to build out from the backbone and deliver high-speed internet ...

The Lansing-based fiber optic Internet service provider Arialink last week completed a major network expansion, launching a direct fiber optic peering initiative at major Internet hubs in Chicago and ...

MILANO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Open Fiber a national wholesales operator awards SM Optics, part of SIAE MICROELETTRONICA group a contract to supply and deploy WSS-free WDM ROADM technology extending fibre ...

Zambia’s first optic-fiber communication backbone is now being leased to Internet service providers, telephone operators and corporate entities to provide high-speed communication channels across the ...

HUNTINGTON — Local internet connectivity could be accessible for all Huntingtonians in the near future. The City of Huntington has taken steps to establish a fiber-optic backbone across the city.