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 ...

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

Spectrum internet and phone service customers in the eastern Coachella Valley experienced service interruptions Friday after fiber optic lines were cut in what Indio police believe was vandalism.

More than a dozen physical attacks on the fiber optic Internet cables appear to be the work of vandals, not terrorists, experts and the FBI suggest. Criminals have sliced fiber-optic cables that form ...

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.

Salinas has moved one step closer to having a “dark fiber network” spread beneath it. This is not as sinister as it may sound. The proposed network is simply a network of fiber optic cables that ...

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

Someone hacked through yet another fiber optic cable in the San Francisco Bay area early Tuesday morning, continuing a rash of incidents that have disrupted Internet traffic and vexed law enforcement ...

As the new millennium approached, the future of the Internet at Smith College appeared a little, well, apocalyptic. The college projected that its need for bandwidth, or network capacity, would grow ...

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 ...

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 ...