The Washington Post visited the Corning factory in Midland, N.C. — the largest optical fiber facility in the United States — to see how these cables are made.

Fiber optic cable internet service is on the rise, with Google Fiber rapidly expanding into metro Phoenix cities. The COVID-19 pandemic showed cities and internet service providers the need to bring ...

This seashell could help improve nanotechnologies, fiber optic cables and more A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could ...

Fiber optic cables have now been extended throughout my small town in New Hampshire, and I’m ecstatic about their arrival. I remember using a 300-baud modem back in the 1980s.

In January, sea ice severed a fiber-optic cable running along the floor of the Beaufort Sea several miles off the North Slope. The line is a key piece of Northwest Alaska’s broadband ...