Northampton Community College recently hosted a Fiber Optic Fusion Splicing Certificate Course, a two-day training event held ...

‘ Fiber optics ’ is now a common term in the modern lexicon, but it hasn’t always been that way. Back in November 1960, physicist Narinder Singh Kapany published a groundbreaking article in Scientific ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish ...

Scientists recently deployed about 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to test whether internet cables can monitor endangered orcas. If successful, the world’s 870,000 miles of existing ...

Verizon customers reported service outages across Los Angeles County after vandalism of fiber optic cables, a spokesperson for the company said. Starting Friday morning, Verizon customers reported ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- When a communications cable is cut, it can be hundreds of fiber lines serving thousands of customers. Fixing it has been described as putting spaghetti back together. "It is ...

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...

One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the ...