A cable consisting of one or more thin flexible fibres with a glass core through which light signals can be sent with very little loss of strength.
digital cable TV is delivered via a network of high-speed fibre-optic cables
mass noun in total, 86 kms of underground fibre-optic cable are to be laid
Example sentencesExamples
- About 150 km of new fibre-optic cable is being laid in Bombay, the first target.
- The internet is coming to the South Pole following a decision to lay a fibre-optic cable across the polar ice.
- All but a few of the UK's households have can broadband access via standard phone lines or fibre-optic cable services.
- BT, the major installer, already has over 4.4m km of fibre-optic cable installed in the UK.
- Bandwidth capacity of fibre-optic cable is much greater than that of copper wire.
- The 911 emergency call service was affected in both provinces after the main and back-up fibre-optic cables were severed.
- As individual computers are wired together with the fibre-optic cables of the internet, the boundaries between them blur.
- The vehicle is controlled via a 2,000m fibre-optic cable.
- The internet's backbone runs mainly via laser light transmitted along fibre-optic cables.
- In many urban areas fibre-optic cable is available, which dramatically increases broadband speeds.