DSL, satellite, fiber-optic, and cable are all options for internet and TV service across the country, and keeping track of the differences can be a difficult and involved process.

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense ...

Dec. 2, 2024 — Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out ...

These fiber-optic cables could also serve as underwater earthquake detectors, researchers report online June 14 in Science. “It’s a very exciting proposition,” says Barbara Romanowicz, ...

A worldwide shortage of fiber-optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, endangering companies’ ambitious plans to roll out state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure ...

DAS can’t predict earthquakes; it just detects early tremors. “Any system, whether it is a seismometer or fiber optic cable, cannot detect things before they happen at the sensor,” says ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of ...