For more than a year Intel has talked about graduating from copper wires to fiber optics for Thunderbolt ports on Apple’s Mac computers, and Sumitomo Electric Industries has became one of the first ...

Back in March, we noted that optical Thunderbolt 3 cables were starting to become available some four years after the standard's debut. Availability of these high-end optical cables has taken another ...

If you’ve ever dabbled even a little bit into the tech world, you’ve probably heard of fiber optics. But what is it and why is it so important? Fiber optic cable is a whole new way of communication.

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Why not take the same strands of light that already power the world’s fiber-optic cables and let them travel freely through ...

Several factors are driving the popularity of optical fiber cabling. Chief among those is the growth of high-tech applications that require the massive bandwidth fiber-optic cabling makes possible.

Fiber optic cables are commonly used for core network lines and connections that must span long distances, such as those used by Internet service providers. This is due to the fact that fiber optic ...