Beneath the conduit we just disconnected," Sen said, "there is a sheath of optical cabling.

He'd cleared away optical cabling from a junction port near the helm, and stripped the box down to bare metal, the corners of which were very sharp indeed.

It has a transfer speed of 10 Gbit/s per channel over copper wire and 20 Gbit/s per channel using optical cabling.

All but cloaked in shadow, the corridor was illuminated only by a series of emitters strung haphazardly along the tunnel's low ceiling and connected by optical cabling.

All of it was banded together with a length of optical cabling.

Thunderbolt ports on the latest Macs already support optical cabling, according to Intel.

Similar plates covered most of the ship's corridors and overhead maintenance conduits, offering easy access to the networks of pipes and optical cabling running throughout the ship.

OM3 and OM4 are the preferred choices for structured optical cabling within buildings.

Intel's original LightPeak prototype used optical cabling and connectors.

Still, optical cabling is necessary to move Thunderbolt beyond its current 10Gbps bandwidth.