Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is ...

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 ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

UK awards £2.2M grant to six universities to research ‘flat’ fiber for new composites. Research into flat fiber for new composites. A £2.2 million ($2.8M) grant from the UK Government’s Engineering ...

- The world's first successful petabit-class transmission over more than 1,000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber, achieving a transmission rate of 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to fiber-optic cables that carry the internet across oceans. Stanford physicists ...