fiber

Hey everyone, I've been searching on eBay and have seen that Intel 100Gbit QSFP28 adapters have started to become affordable, and I am toying in my mind with maybe upgrading. From googling, it looks as if qsfp28 is just four sfp28 lanes, and sfp28 is backwards compatible with SFP+, so if I use...

Ok, so the title of the thread says a lot, and given my networking shortcomings, I don't know exactly what to google for and if I am even looking at the right stuff. So here is what I'm wanting to do: Got a new property which is three acres in size. There will be three residences located on...

At a recent special town meeting, voters in Charlemont, Massachusetts rejected a proposal from the Comcast Cable Co. for cable internet. Instead the town decided to build their own municipal fiber network. The cost of the Comcast proposal would have been $462,123 and would have only covered 96%...

EPFL scientists have developed a new elastic fiber that could be used in smart clothes, medical devices, and other materials. This fiber is very flexible and is already used in robotic fingers. The sky is the limit with this new tech and it's going to be interesting to see what kinds of clothing...

San Francisco and Seattle are contemplating building citywide fiber networks to connect all home and businesses in their cities. Overall the plan is to have a dark network of fiber that the city owns and then allows it to be used by multiple commercial ISPs to bring competition to the residents...

Every major city these days has optical fiber networks buried all over the place carrying data. Researchers at Stanford want to use these optical fibers to double up as seismic sensors for monitoring and studying earthquakes. For people in earthquake prone areas this could really aid in...