# Fiber-optic cables [How Charles Kao Beat Bell Labs to the Fiber-Optic Revolution](https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-charles-kao-beat-bell-labs-to-the-fiberoptic-revolution) <!-- #case-study/technology --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Fiber-optic+cables) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Fiber-optic+cables) <!-- {BearID:ED9F24D6-63A5-428C-9AAC-726C6BEADE69} -->