Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

Many miles off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso, Chile. Stretched end-to-end, it’s equal to four-fifths of the Earth’s diameter. The ...

Even as AT&T installs a GigaPower network in Winston-Salem, the city itself is getting ready to link departments together with its own stand-alone fiber optic network. Last week, the Winston-Salem ...

Beneath the mighty oceans across the world lie hidden something just as mighty: The submarine cables that have been carrying ...

In a recent Science study, researchers used 15 kilometers of telecom fiber near Mendocino, Calif., to record the region’s ...