As the name suggests, fibre optic technology uses pulses of light to carry data along strands of glass or plastic. It's the technology of choice for the government's National Broadband Network (NBN), ...

The company in charge of building the national broadband network has bought enough of it to wrap all the way around the world. The company has purchased almost 50,000km of copper cabling, the bulk of ...

Although when properly installed co-axial cable will transfer a wide band of frequencies with very little loss, one of the problems with coaxial cable is that long lengths can cause a slight delay in ...