fiber optics

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Goldberg said he was literally losing sleep six years ago when he realized the company’s business model was in peril as Netflix and video streaming took off and fiber optics guaranteed lightning-fast internet connectivity.

From Reuters

Instead of radio broadcasts, which leak out into deep space, we now use cables or fiber optics, which do not.

From Scientific American

Fiber or fiber optics are thin cables often installed underground that allow companies to deliver internet services to homes.

From Reuters

Advances in this space must unite disparate technologies like superconducting qubits and fiber optics, while solving outstanding challenges in materials science and quantum communications.

From Scientific American

He looked frantically for work, eventually securing a position at a staffing agency that sent him on a variety of assignments — cleaning offices, landscaping and digging into the sandy earth to lay fiber optics cable.

From New York Times