Testing times for GPON
31 January 2014
As GPON rolls out, equipment interoperability issues abound. Will certification ease today’s rising test and measurement costs. Rebecca Pool finds out
Fibre Systems Winter 2014
Disruptive technology or just a silicon blip?
31 January 2014
The jury is still out on the significance of silicon photonics-based products in the optical component industry, writes Roy Rubenstein
Hauling back the years
31 January 2014
Siân Harris investigates the increasing role that fibre plays in mobile backhaul
Metro contextual
31 January 2014
A recent study has predicted fast growth in data traffic on metropolitan access and aggregation networks. Transmode’s chief technical officer Sten Nordell offers a perspective on the situation. By Tim Gillett
Spinning into a bright future
31 January 2014
Coriant has been going great guns since its spin-out from Nokia Siemens Networks. Tim Gillett reports
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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
