The Italian research center CSELT worked with Corning to develop practical optical fiber cables, resulting in the first metropolitan fiber optic cable being deployed in Turin in 1977. Ethernet was invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Labs using coaxial cable. joined Xerox to standardize ethernet under IEEE as 803. Charles Kao of Standard Telephone and Cables (UK) reveals on how to make low loss fiber suitable for communications using an optical cladding over a pure glass core and removing impurities, plus ideally singlemode operation. The history of fiber optic start In 1966, K. Hockham, published a paper: “ Dielectric-fibre. Today, telecommunication relies almost entirely on fiber optic cables. It comprised a series of towers spaced 10-30 km apart, with movable semaphore arms on top that could be oriented at various angles to signify different letters and.