Vanesa Diaz discusses building advanced cable TV networks for gigabit services
Ana Pesovic discusses the three core elements required in creating a smart city
For centuries, humanity has looked for new ways to build smarter cities; ways that improve city operations, grow the economy and create a better place for people to work and live. From the aqueducts in Rome to the more recent technology innovations that help simplify the challenges of urban life, cities are, and have been, getting smarter throughout history.
With demand for fibre to the premises increasing, Keely Portway looks at the role training plays in ensuring installation skills remain available to meet this growing demand
Switching off copper networks where fibre has been deployed is the end game, so why are so few operators doing it, wonders Pauline Rigby
Duncan Ellis shares his views about the increased focus on automation from network operators, and how the physical layer has so far stubbornly resisted the move
As data demand ramps ever higher, researchers are looking to innovative amplifier designs to help transport a broader light spectrum through optical fibres, finds Andy Extance
Daniel Schall’s experiments in 2009 quickly demonstrated to him and his colleagues ‘that the optical properties of graphene were absolutely unique’.
Multimode fibre has long been the mainstay of data centre networks due to its ability to provide an economical system for high-speed connections between servers, switches and storage.
A look at building future-ready terrestrial networks with hybrid optical fibre cables, with Sergei Makovejs and Matthew Guinan
Jay Tourigny discusses the challenges of cleaning high-density fibre connections in giant data centres and how they can be overcome
PIC your test to deliver reliable optical component performance in a next-generation world, says François Couny
The UK’s nationwide rail network should be a strategic component of digital Britain, says Mark Weller
Raf Meersman offers three routes to 5G that could ensure less capital and operational expenditure for operators, for all of which, convergence is key
