That began to change in 1988 with the laying of the first transatlantic fiber-optic telephone cable, TAT-8. With a capacity of 40,000 simultaneous phone calls on just two pairs of single-mode ...

It’s more widely available, cheaper up front, and often bundled with TV and phone services ... congestion. Fiber internet uses thin glass strands called fiber-optic cables to carry data ...

Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.

Fiber-optic cable would go overhead on utility poles for a stretch and then dive underground, joining my phone company's eight-million-mile (12.2-million-kilometer) nationwide fiber-optic network.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, telephone companies began ... Fiber is also used to replace copper cable for LAN backbones. An optical fiber is constructed of a transparent core made of nearly ...

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 ...

That’s why phone providers such as AT&T are aggressively moving to fiber optic internet, which has big advantages — for now — over cable. AT&T has been installing fiber as fast as it can ...

ABUJA – The Federal Government has established a Joint Standing Committee on the Protection of Fiber Optic Cables to curb the persistent damage to fiber networks caused by road construction and ...