DSL, satellite, fiber-optic, and cable are all options for internet and TV service across the country, and keeping track of the differences can be a difficult and involved process.

Here’s how to make a fiber-optic cable out of air using a laser. Air-based 'waveguides' could help with remote sensing as well as laser beam weapons ...

Seeking to expand its already significant presence in Africa, Google has announced it is building the first-ever fiber optic route to connect Africa with Australia. The "Umoja ...

A worldwide shortage of fiber-optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, endangering companies’ ambitious plans to roll out state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure.

Google has been backing and constructing undersea, intercontinental fiber optic cables since 2008, helping build a $300 million trans-Pacific subsea cable network connecting Japan to the west ...

About 30 miles west at an intersection in downtown Lewiston, Maine, Heidi Leighton, Hawkeye Fiber Optics’ most recent hire, is in another bucket learning how to splice cable to an existing strand.

Fiber optic cable is being laid in Whitfield for Fastbridge internet service. Angel Rodriguez of Allentown, working for subcontractor Signs advertising FastBridge fiber optic broadband internet ...

A bird’s nest incorporating fiber optic cable is a striking sign of how much debris from fiber-guided FPVs now litters the landscape of Ukraine. Other images show fields glittering with fibers ...

When people think about fiber optic cables, it's usually about how they're used for telecommunications and accessing the ...

IIG wants to submerge a 75,000-foot-long fiber optic cable in the Columbia River — from East Wenatchee to Rock Island Dam — to connect Microsoft's data centers in the Wenatchee ...

Google has been backing and constructing undersea, intercontinental fiber optic cables since 2008, helping build a $300 million trans-Pacific subsea cable network connecting Japan to the west ...