The benefits and drawbacks of using fiber or cable for home internet broadband may not be immediately obvious. Here's a ...

Patented in 2001 as U.S. No. 6301405, these joints rotate and are linked in such a fashion as to bring the fiber optic strands into optimal signal strength at all times. This technology is used in ...

The build starts by removing the fiber optic bundle from the wand. One end is left as a round bundle. At the other end, the strands are then fed into plastic frames to separate them out individually.

They achieved this breakneck speed by sending infrared light through tubular strands of glass — which is how fiber-optic broadband works generally. But they tapped into a spectral band that has ...

According to KMI Corporation, specialists in fiber optic market research, by the end of 1990 there were approximately eight million miles of fiber laid in the U.S. (this is miles of fiber ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s ... that their shells are designed with translucent areas consisting of hair-thin strands, arranged in bundles, that deliver ...

The build starts by removing the fiber optic bundle from the wand. One end is left as a round bundle. At the other end, the strands are then fed into plastic frames to separate them out individually.

The fiber line that was cut is made up of ropelike sections of wire internally consisting of many hair-like fiber strands.