SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems and startup Qunnect said on Wednesday that they have built and operated a ...

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...

Google has announced plans to build a new network of high-capacity subsea cables and fiber-optic routes connecting India with ...

The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new study. In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the ...

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Teknovus, a Petaluma startup that makes computer chips and software for fiber optic communications, has accepted a $123 million takeover offer from Broadcom Corp., the two companies said Wednesday.

SAN JUAN ISLAND — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working ...

Turkey and Syria’s 7.8-magnitude quake on Monday is a brutal reminder that deep down, planet Earth still hides secrets. Scientists know full well that faults are prone to earthquakes, but they can’t ...