Fiber optic cables have long been the backbone of global communications, enabling the high-speed Internet that connects billions of people daily. Now, these same cables are being tested as ...

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 ...

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.

A new type of drone, operated using fiber-optic cables, appeared on the battlefield in Ukraine last year. This new weapon offers decisive advantages over earlier drones and could strengthen Kyiv ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology, using fiber-optic cables, enables real-time detection of subsurface magma movement with millimeter precision. In ...