Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places -- a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers have ...

LEVERETT — Inside a green metal building in Leverett, lightning-fast internet connections pulse through yellow-coated fibers, one per customer. One strand belongs to Susan Valentine, an artist who ...

Ammon, a town of roughly 16,000, shares its entire western border with Idaho Falls, a town of roughly 62,000. The two towns share a sibling rivalry that at worst leads to bouts of squabbling, but at ...

Its “dark fiber” project in Huntsville creates a model that might finally thrust US Internet access into the 21st Century Illustration by Patrycja Podkościelny This week, Google launched what amounts ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series about the fiber-optic internet revolution taking place in Bonneville County, where the cities of Ammon and Idaho Falls have used public network ownership to ...

The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new study. In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the ...

The FlexScan (R) FS300-HDR series brings OTDR testing to new levels with higher dynamic ranges, faster test times and ease of use for all levels of experience. Designed for today and tomorrow's ...

In 2000, internet access was a bit of a luxury. It was useful, but you could easily get by without it. Today, that’s no longer true. Work, commerce, schooling and participation in the public sphere — ...