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.

Applications such as self-driving vehicles, 6G mobile communications and quantum communications are pushing fiber optic networks to their limits. Fraunhofer researchers have joined forces with ...

With lightning-fast performance, equal upload and download speeds, and less network congestion, fiber is the future-proof choice built for today’s connected world. That said, don’t count cable ...

If you look at websites such as the Submarine Cable Map, you can quickly see ... According to Song, the idea arose from efforts to map Africa's fiber optic networks. In the process, it became ...