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ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2011) Stretching for thousands of miles beneath oceans, optical fibers now connect every continent except for Antarctica.
With less data loss and higher bandwidth, optical-fiber technology allows information to zip around the world, bringing pictures, video, and other data from every corner of the globe to your computer in a split second.
But although optical fibers are increasingly replacing copper wires, carrying information via photons instead of electrons, today's computer technology still relies on electronic chips.