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Fiber-optic lines offer much higher data rates than the copper wiring that's more common for bringing broadband Internet access to homes. Copper wiring is convenient, since it's typically already ...

The animated Doodle depicts Kao, widely known as "the father of fiber optics," using a green fiber laser to transmit data from one end of the Doodle to the other. Charles K. Kao, holding a single ...

Ukraine's 63rd Mechanized Brigade shared a video showing an area of the battlefield riddled with the wires from fiber-optic drones.

Fiber-optic wires connected to a drone during a test flight in the Kyiv region in December. Global Images Ukraine/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Ukraine then began using them as well.

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.

Scientists have transmitted quantum and conventional internet data through the same fiber-optic channel, meaning a future quantum internet could theoretically use existing infrastructure.