CityFibre’s recruitment programme will include the identification and training of thousands of unemployed UK residents
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UK rural broadband provider, Gigaclear is looking to recruit 120 new, full-time field engineers by the end of March next year, to help build network capacity.
The county of Northamptonshire in the UK has seen some 10,000 rural properties upgraded to ultrafast-fibre.
Matthew Hare, chief executive, Zzoomm
Zzoomm, the recently launched full fibre network operator is partnering with Hexatronic for full fibre network delivery.
Gigaclear has installed its first pure fibre broadband cabinet in Birchanger, Uttlesford, under Essex County Council’s broadband improvement programme, Superfast Essex.
Matthew Hare, founder and former CEO of rural fibre network Gigaclear has launched Zzoomm, a new full fibre network operator, serving the UK.
Abingdon, UK – Gigaclear has been ranked no. 23 in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100, as a new entrant for 2018. This positions the company as one of the fastest growing tech organisations in the UK.
ABINGDON, UK – Gigaclear has been crowned Best Rural Broadband provider for a second consecutive year by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA).
The UK has fallen to 35th place in the global broadband speed delivery rankings, compared with 31st place in 2017. This is according to the latest data gathered and published by research group M-Lab and UK broadband comparison site Cable.co.uk.
Matthew Hare, chief executive at rural full fibre broadband provider, Gigaclear has stepped down from the company he founded eight years ago. Hare is succeeded by Mike Surrey, previously chief operating officer, and now interim chief executive at the company.
As the pandemic underlines the value of the internet more than ever, its underlying technology is making one of its biggest transitions for years.
The data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data centre or cloud service provider.
As the world struggles to settle into the ‘new normal’, today’s optical networks need to be flexible in their architecture blueprint, while adapting to new technologies to provide the kinds of new capacity and service options to meet accelerated demand for higher bandwidth.
To address the undeniable growing demand for higher bandwidth, optical vendors have been playing their role with the development of various coherent optical transceivers for different areas of the market, each with its own set of design considerations.
The demand for bandwidth has unarguably skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to the increased appetite for online gaming, content streaming and social-media use.
The importance of reliable connectivity has never been more recognised than it is now. While ambitious targets have been in place across the world for fibre deployment for some time, the ongoing pandemic has served to push it to the forefront.
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A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
