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 ...

Many miles off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso, Chile. Stretched end-to-end, it’s equal to four-fifths of the Earth’s diameter. The ...

For those of you that don't know who The Engineer Guy is, his name is Bill Hammack and he's made it his business to pull back the shroud of mystery from the world of science and engineering. He's done ...

The more than 1.2 million km of fiber-optic cables that crisscross the planet carry the world's phone calls, internet signals and data. But this summer, researchers published the eerie sounds of blue ...

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 ...

SLICFiber, based in the state’s northernmost county, will build out a fiber optic network across nearly all of the north ...