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  1. ShowMeCables Releases New MPO Fiber Breakout Cables Available In OM3, OM4 And OM5 Models 5/1/2020

    ShowMeCables, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading supplier of connectivity solutions, has launched a new line of Multi-Fiber Push On (MPO) breakout cables that allow for the redistribution of various optical fibers to individual devices without additional networking equipment

  2. Seaborn Chooses JaxNAP To Host Endpoint To AMX-1 Subsea Cable In USA 5/1/2020

    Seaborn Networks (Seaborn), a leading developer-owner-operator of transoceanic subsea fiber optic cable systems, and Jacksonville's Network Access Point (JaxNAP), servicing specific needs, datacenter needs and local area networks in Northeast Florida, announced today that JaxNAP will host Seaborn as their endpoint for the AMX-1 Subsea cable between Jacksonville, Florida and Rio de Janeiro Brazil

  3. Mohave Electric Cooperative Moves Forward To Build Fiber Optic Network In Partnership With TWN Communications 4/23/2020

    Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) announced they have received approval from the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), in a unanimous 5-0 vote, to proceed with a planned broadband network deployment project

  4. HKBN Provides Next-Generation All-Fibre Backhaul To SmarTone Offers Ultra-High Speed And Reliable Backhaul Connectivity For SmarTone 5G Cell Sites 4/1/2020

    SmarTone and HKBN Group ("HKBN”) announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to use HKBN’s next-generation all-fibre backhaul for SmarTone’s advanced 5G network

  5. LS Networks Completes Fiber Network Expansion Into Salem 4/1/2020

    LS Networks, the largest, locally owned, fiber-optic network in the Pacific Northwest, recently announced the completion of a new fiber build in Salem, Oregon. This footprint expansion will bring reliable, high-speed connectivity to businesses in south Salem

  6. Study Shows Potential For Using Fiber-Optic Networks To Assess Ground Motions During Earthquakes 3/31/2020

    A new study from a University of Michigan researcher and colleagues at three institutions demonstrates the potential for using existing networks of buried optical fibers as an inexpensive observatory for monitoring and studying earthquakes.

  7. Using Fiber Optics To Advance Safe And Renewable Energy 3/30/2020

    Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, groundwater mapping, earthquake detection, and monitoring of Arctic permafrost thaw

  8. Researchers Develop A Black Phosphorus All-Fiber Humidity Sensor 3/27/2020

    A research group led by Prof. LI Jia and Prof. XU Xuefeng from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. YANG Dexing from Northwestern Polytechnical University, developed a highly responsive all-fiber humidity sensor with an ultrafast response time as fast as 7ms.

  9. Photocatalytic Optical Fibres Convert Water Into Solar Fuel 3/27/2020

    Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibres into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy

  10. Long-Distance Fiber Link Poised To Create Powerful Networks Of Optical Clocks 3/17/2020

    An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical telecommunications fiber network stable enough to remotely interrogate optical atomic clocks