Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.

Fiber is also used to replace copper cable for LAN backbones. An optical fiber is constructed of a transparent core made of nearly pure silicon dioxide (SiO2), through which the light travels.

An curved arrow pointing right. Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers recently published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network.

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MOX Networks, LLC (“MOX”), a leading fiber-optic network specialist, is excited to announce its acquisition of spectrum from Google on the Transpacific, Topaz subsea cable ...