The latest FTTH Market Panorama figures, prepared by IDate, were released at the FTTH Conference in Amsterdam.
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The first months of 2019 – as with any year – are a good opportunity to look ahead to what the future holds in store for the networking and communication domains
The European Electronic Communications Code has been finalised and formerly adopted. How will it aid European fibre deployment, and what factors could impact the end goal of copper switch-off? Keely Portway finds out
News
22 March 2019
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has committed a £4.9 million grant to fund a national research facility to support UK researchers in creating communications networks for the future.
21 March 2019
Openreach has opened a consultation to agree a framework to switch off the UK's copper networks
21 March 2019
Orange is to offer its services in France as an internet service provider (ISP) on all public initiative networks deployed in the market, regardless of the infrastructure operator deploying the network.
21 March 2019
Microsoft and Facebook have partnered to form the Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) Collaboration.
20 March 2019
Bournemouth and Northampton are the next two UK locations to benefit from alternative network provider, CityFibre’s full fibre roll out.
20 March 2019
Salisbury is the UK’s first entire city to access Openreach’s new fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology under the Fibre First programme.
Analysis & opinion
27 February 2019
Ana Pesovic takes a look at the evolution of fibre networks beyond 10G PON
25 February 2019
Mike Jones looks at the 5G lottery and asks: 'Are you gambling with your fibre’s performance?'
14 February 2019
Geoff Bennett outlines three myths surrounding optical capacity, and how they can be dispelled
Features
01 March 2019
The European Electronic Communications Code has been finalised and formerly adopted. How will it aid European fibre deployment, and what factors could impact the end goal of copper switch-off? Keely Portway finds out
25 February 2019
Work has started to hone an idea from Google Fiber to increase the reach and number of customers served per fibre of FTTH services. Andy Extance explains
15 February 2019
The data centre has created demand for an infrastructure that provides greater bandwidth and higher data rates, but how has this impacted the market for optical components?
30 January 2019
To exploit machine learning and artificial intelligence, optical transmission systems require greater automation, finds Andy Extance
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Product News
15 March 2019
INNO Instrument revealed its advanced Ribbon Splicer, View 12R, at both the recent OFC and FTTH events.
12 March 2019
The recent FTTH Conference in Amsterdam saw CommScope introduce its new FIST Modular Splice Closure that assists network operators with building a fibre foundation for future networks.
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11 March 2019
Installing FTTH doesn’t need to be a headache. Your challenge: mass deployments mean managing multiple contractors and untrained personnel. Evolving PON technologies, new test gear and training mean keeping your teams updated to deliver the outstanding quality expected.
11 March 2019
Visitors to this year’s OFC Conference and Exhibition in San Diego were able to see, for the first time, a collection of optical module solutions for 5G wireless networks from Finisar.
07 March 2019
The new 3M Expanded Beam Optical Connector System is a scalable single and multimode interconnect system for data centre applications.
Press releases
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS – Outstanding contributions to the acceleration of FTTH in Europe were rewarded at the FTTH Conference in Amsterdam, with Orange Spain and Dana Tobak, chief executive officer of Hyperoptic taking away prizes. In addition, Greg Mesch, chief executive officer at CityFibre picked up the inaugural Charles Kao Award.
WETZIKON, SWITZERLAND - R&M, the global developer and provider of cabling systems for network infrastructures has made available the ‘Data Center Handbook 2019.’
FREMONT, CALIFORNIA - For 20 years, OIF has worked closely with network operators, system vendors, component vendors and test equipment vendors to collaborate, test and validate the interoperability of the electrical, optical and control solutions that directly impact the industry.
BARCELONA, SPAIN — EXFO has joined the O-RAN Alliance, a group formed in 2018 by network operators with the vision of creating standards and clearly defined requirements for open, intelligent radio access networks (RAN). With 5G networks heavily dependent on virtualised, software-defined RAN architectures, interoperability among diverse network components is key to fast, successful implementations.
ABINGDON, UK – Rural full fibre broadband provider Gigaclear has appointed Gareth Williams as its new chief executive.
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Work has started to hone an idea from Google Fiber to increase the reach and number of customers served per fibre of FTTH services. Andy Extance explains
Mike Jones looks at the 5G lottery and asks: 'Are you gambling with your fibre’s performance?'
The European Electronic Communications Code has been finalised and formerly adopted. How will it aid European fibre deployment, and what factors could impact the end goal of copper switch-off? Keely Portway finds out
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic right now, with the potential to help improve efficiency both across the network, and from a cost perspective.