fiber-optic

Near-term, look for silicon photonics in your data centers and fiber-optic regional, metro, and long-haul networks.

Theoretically you could use quantum key distribution, but in practice this usually requires a fiber-optic connection.

Yeah, and their patent applications telegraph the iMac with the fiber-optic shell that's been just around the corner for 10 years.

The FTL neutrino was a fiber-optic cable from a frequency generator that was slightly loose.

It heavily exploits the existing infrastructure of fiber-optic cables and standard telephone wires.

For a lot of things, we are using plain boring fiber-optic (and copper) connections.

Well Verizon (DSL, fiber-optic) bought AOL out recently.

If you wanted, you could pay for and bury fiber-optic cable from your home to every place on planet earth that you want to make a network connection to.

On April 16, 2013, suspects clipped fiber-optic cables outside San Jose before snipers opened fire on electrical transformers at PG&E's Metcalf Transmission Substation, causing more than $15 million in damage.

> the most common example being lying about u-verse being fiber-optic going to their customer's homes (while it only goes to a central box in the neighborhood).

Well, if you read the very first sentence of the article: A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research Platform as part of a five-year $5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.

> As we build new worlds with our technologies, knitted from fiber-optic light and lines of code, it is incumbent on us to ensure it does not reproduce the erasures and abuses of the old, but properly accounts for the rights and liberties of every one of us.

Fiber-optic and hardware level upgrades touch a lot fewer devices, and are transparent to users and applications.