The Missouri-based company has begun construction of a network in the city that may reach as many 23,000 homes.

A thin strand of glass designed for light transmission. A single hair-thin optical fiber is capable of transmitting trillions of bits per second. In addition to their huge transmission capacity ...

Fiber-optic cables are composed of thin strands of glass or plastic fibers that carry data ... be transmitted through a standard fiber-optic cable, but this new experiment marks the first time ...

But the key to this build is in the 16 pieces of side-glow plastic fiber optic tubing. Side-glow is designed to let light escape along the length of the tube as opposed to end-glow, which is made ...