Built from a single erbium atom, a hybrid quantum bit encodes data magnetically and beams it through fiber-optic wavelengths.

Quantum networking has long sounded like science fiction, but a series of recent lab results is turning it into a practical ...

LOVES PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metronet today announced plans to bring multi-gigabit internet service to homes and businesses in Loves Park. The company’s private, $9M investment will fund the ...

New Australian research offers a tantalizing promise–fiber optics that could make Internet speeds 100 times faster. The research relies on fiber optics that imitate the basic structure of life: DNA.

Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

Cityside Fiber, an Orange County-based provider of 100% fiber-optic internet, is launching its state-of-the-art network in ...

How does cable internet work? In its simplest form, cable internet operates by way of broadband internet connection operating over copper cable TV lines called coaxial (“coax”) cables. Data is ...

Valparaíso, Chile, has the fastest fixed broadband Internet in the world, according to Speedtest Global Index, which ranks ...

Vandals who slashed fiber-optic cables are being blamed for phone and internet service outages across Southern California's high desert Sunday, according to officials. Officials for Spectrum, an ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An RV fire in South Portland damaged the fiber optic cables on a utility pole, knocking out internet and cell service for many customers in the area for most of the day. It’s ...

When it comes to earthquakes, the earlier the warning, the better. While current seismometers can pick up minor tremors with precision, they're relatively short-ranged and expensive, but now, a ...