New ‘Glass Straw’ Fibers Could Speed Up the Internet

A cable design that sends light through air rather than solid glass could cut signal loss and make long-distance transmissions cheaper ... Read More

Fiber Optics Breakthrough Promises Faster Internet

A new type of hollow optical fibre promises to boost the amount of data that can be carried in each glass strand, and to do so over longer distances. This could help to make telecommunications systems ... Read More

New hollow glass fiber design carries internet in air with 1,000x transmission power

Instead of the solid glass cores that dominate today’s internet cables, researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a fiber that guides light through tiny air-filled channels. By ... Read More

Japan sets new world record for internet speed: 4 million times faster than the US average

Japan breaks the world record internet speed record: 1.02 petabits per second via fiber optics, 4 million times faster than broadband. Read More

Microsoft Bets On Hollow Core Optical Fiber Being The Future Of High-Speed Data

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. Read More

New hollow-core fiber outperforms glass, pushing data closer to light speed

This novel fiber, utilizing a design known as double-nested antiresonant nodeless fiber (DNANF), exhibits an attenuation of just 0.091 dB/km at the 1,550-nm wavelength. For comparison, ... Read More

‘Glass Straw’ Cables Can Carry More Data, Faster and Farther: Here's How

A new kind of Internet cable might soon change how we connect online. Scientists have developed hollow optical fibres that guide light through air instead of solid glass. Because air absorbs less ... Read More

AI at light speed: How glass fibers could replace silicon brains

AI at light speed: How glass fibers could replace silicon brains Date: June 20, 2025 Source: Tampere University Summary: Imagine supercomputers that think with light instead of electricity. That s ... Read More