Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fiber optic cables, which should be ready by next year.

Taiwanese company Areca has recently launched optical Thunderbolt 3 cables, available in 10-, 20- and 30-meter lengths.

Corning's thunderbolt Optical Cable (left) coiled in concentric circles next to Apple's identically wound 2m Thunderbolt cable.

Back in March, we noted that optical Thunderbolt 3 cables were starting to become available some four years after the standard's debut. Availability of these high-end optical cables has taken ...

Sumitomo Electric Industries has became one of the first companies to deliver optical cables for Thunderbolt ports on Macs.

Corning's USB 3.Optical cable replaces copper with fiber optic filament for faster sustained data transfer over much longer distances than standard USB 3.0 cables, but that speed comes with a few ...

HDMI ARC and optical are the two go-to connections for sending digital sound from one device to another, but is there a difference between them? Let's find out.

Tossing the optical drive left a big gap inside the Mac, with a SATA cable dangling into it, ready to be hooked up. There was, though, one problem: Apple’s optical drives don’t use a standard ...

Enter the Corning 33 foot Thunderbolt optical cable: Now I can leave my Mac in a closet about 20 feet away from my desk next to the UPS and the cable modem.

Wireworld has updated its Supernova optical digital cable, and is making it available in with a choice of standard Toslink connector or the 3.5mm MiniToslink used by many laptop computers.

The solution for those who do need an optical drive is simply to get a standalone one, and in the case of Apple, the company still sells an external SuperDrive for MacBook owners who still use ...