The UK’s Liverpool City region is to benefit from a full-fibre, gigabit-capable network following the announcement by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram of a £30m partnership.
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400G ZR+ successfully trialled over more than 1,000km
24 February 2021
Windstream Wholesale has completed a live network trial in which it successfully deployed 400Gb/s single-wavelength transmission over 1,027km across its long-haul network between Phoenix and Los Angeles.
KKR’s Telefónica Chile acquisition to provide open access network
23 February 2021
Investment firm KKR has entered into a $1bn agreement with Telefónica to create an open access wholesale company in Chile.
Broadband Forum points to harnessing copper for fibre benefits
22 February 2021
Broadband Forum’s latest technical report has highlighted how fibre-based access could be provided using existing copper infrastructure instead of installing fibre to end-users’ premises.
$300m submarine cable project to connect US and Panama
18 February 2021
Ocean Networks (ONI) is to launch a submarine cable system linking Florida to Panama.
Researchers successfully measure backscattering in hollow-core fibre
16 February 2021
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK and Université Laval in Canada, have successfully measured back-reflection in next generation hollow-core fibres.
II-VI makes $6.4bn Coherent bid
12 February 2021
The race to acquire Coherent has taken another turn as II-VI announced that it too has made an offer for the laser technology firm.
Researchers demo metasurface that could aid optical comms
11 February 2021
Researchers from Duke University and Facebook’s Connectivity Lab have created a new plasmonic metasurface that achieves record high light efficiency over the entire centimetre-scale metasurface.
400+ UK apprenticeship, graduate and intern roles created
11 February 2021
UK cable operator Virgin Media is to hire more than 400 new employees in graduate, intern and apprenticeship roles this year.
Bogotá to gain neutral fibre network
11 February 2021
Bogotá is set to become the first city in Colombia, Latin America to benefit from a neutral fibre network in the wholesale telecommunications market.
OFC 2021 plenary speakers announced
10 February 2021
This year’s OFC event, which will take place 06-10 June 2021 has announced its plenary speakers.
Subsea systems strengthened
08 February 2021
Southern Cross Cable and Bulk Fiber Networks have selected coherent optical solutions to enhance their latest submarine cables.
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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
