Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network. It took the team nearly four years to put ...

French police investigating multiple cuts to fiber-optic cables in France’s second-largest city. Operators said the cables link Marseille to other cities in France and Europe and that internet and ...

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 ...

Monitoring seismic activity all over the world is an important task, but one that requires equipment to be at the site it’s measuring — difficult in the middle of the ocean. But new research from ...

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 ...

For months, large orange coils at street corners in Spring Township have stood as beacons for a fiber optic network under construction. Crews and their equipment threading fiber cable under curbs and ...