KPN network-trials sustainable fibre cabling
24 August 2020
Dutch provider, KPN is to install a fibre optic network made using 90 per cent recycled plastic.
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5G fuelled by full-fibre diet
5 May 2020
A look at how the kind of full-fibre infrastructure that will be essential to support 5G can be realised in line with roll-out targets
Prysmian to help bring high-speed connection to 52 Mexican cities
16 January 2020
Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract by Mexican government-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to supply fibre cables to connect some of the country’s most remote regions.
Prysmian selected for 10G project in Australia
6 November 2019
TPG Telecom has chosen to partner with Prysmian Group for the ‘10 Gigabit Adelaide’ project in Australia.
Prysmian, Comtec partner to aid UK FTTx market
16 September 2019
Prysmian Telecoms UK and Comtec have joined forces for the distribution of the former’s range of connectivity and optical cable for the growing domestic full-fibre market.
UK wholesale provider appoints strategic fibre partner and selected as last mile provider
20 June 2019
Alternative network provider, CityFibre has awarded a strategic supplier agreement to Prysmian Group, and joined SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ last-mile metro network providers.
Prysmian marks return to submarine telecoms with €50 million Chile contract
26 February 2019
Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded Prysmian Group a new contract worth around €50 million to develop a turnkey repeaterless submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.
Overblow system from Prysmian Group allows faster cable deployment
8 October 2018
Now available from Prysmian Group is the Karona Overblow System, which is designed to aid installation of high-density optical fibre cable into pre-existing sub-ducted routes that contain existing legacy cable.
Prysmian Group enhances flexible ribbon technology
2 August 2018
Prysmian Group recently rolled out two enhancements to its line of FlexRibbon products. This new line, which feature MassLink with FlexRibbon technology, is designed to support large-scale data centres operated by major companies worldwide.
Prysmian implements new organisation for General Cable integration
11 June 2018
Having now completed its acquisition of General Cable, Prysmian Group is launching a new organisation to begin the company’s integration.
Prysmian described the newly created group as a ‘world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry.’ It has global headquarters in Milan and reported sales of more than €11 billion (pro-forma as of 31 December 2017). There are approximately 30,000 employees across 112 plants and 25 research and development centres in more than 50 countries.
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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.
Looking into the future of telecommunications, it could be argued that AI and telcos will effectively transform each other, explains Raf Meersman
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Altnets could be the key to connecting rural areas in 2021, argues Michael Armitage
A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
