When people think about fiber optic cables, it's usually about how they're used for telecommunications and accessing the ...

Fiber is also used to replace copper cable for LAN backbones. An optical fiber is constructed of a transparent core made of nearly pure silicon dioxide (SiO2), through which the light travels.

These bundled 'fiber optic cables' project images through the shell," the researchers wrote. "Heart cockles have evolved transparent windows in their shells with what is, to our knowledge ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers recently published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network.

The sub-sea cable is owned by Quintillion, but affects companies delivering internet access to residents, schools, and local ...