A team of Microsoft-backed researchers has unveiled a new type of hollow core optical fiber that promises unprecedented speed and lower latency for the internet. This breakthrough was published this ...

Data travels across the cloud mainly as light via optical fibers made from solid glass. But that light—and thus that data—travels faster through air. “With hollow core fiber, the glass [has] an air ...

Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer ...

When you’re comparing internet providers, you want the most reliable connection. Read now The company claims it's the first ISP in the US to deploy the advanced fiber type and believes its 40km ...

Advancements in fiber cabling have been few and far between in recent years. The cables being laid at scale by the telecommunications industry today are pretty similar to those that were being fed ...

DARPA has succeeded in creating hollow-core photonic-bandgap optical fiber, which allows light to travel along its length at around 99.7% the speed of light, or a 30% improvement over conventional ...

Why it matters: Hollow core fibers (HCF) are not a new solution per se, but the innovative design conceived by UK-based startup Lumenisity brings this '90s tech to the next level. Microsoft will now ...

Northshore Technical Community College is in the early stages of developing a fiber optics installation component to its information technology program. Telecommunications firms have increasingly ...

A new type of optical fiber filled with nothing but thin air has been found to be particularly effective for carrying out quantum key distribution (QKD), a security protocol that is in principle ...