The UK's leading telecoms provider BT has been trialing a new type of optical fiber that could significantly boost the performance of future 5G networks. Called hollow core fiber, the technology ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. JIANG Haihe from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) designed a 6-hole micro-structure anti-resonant air-core ...

When you’re comparing internet providers, you want the most reliable connection. Read now The company claims it's the first ISP in the US to deploy the advanced fiber type and believes its 40km ...

Estonian telco RETN has launched a new fiber-optic cable connecting Cēsis, Latvia, with Tallinn, Estonia. The line has a capacity of up to 40Tbps (terabits per second), along with a DWDM (Dense ...

Google has announced plans to build a new network of high-capacity subsea cables and fiber-optic routes connecting India with ...

An optical fiber about the thickness of a human hair can now carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full capacity. An optical fibre about the thickness ...

The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new study. In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the ...