Partnership demo’s 800G Ethernet interoperability
21 April 2021
Optical transceiver manufacturer, InnoLight Technology and test and measurement vendor, Spirent Communications have successfully validated 800G optical transceiver interoperability.
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Virgin Media UK trials reach speeds of 2.2Gb/s
21 April 2021
UK cable operator, Virgin Media has successfully conducted trials of its DOCSIS 3.1 network in Southampton and Manchester.
(Left) Ben Wu, director – consumer & mass market, HGC; (right) Andrew Kwok, chief executive officer, HGC, pictured at the project's opening ceremony
Fibre network brought to remote Hong Kong village
20 April 2021
Hong Kong operator, HGC Global Communications (HGC) has committed to extending its optical fibre network to Lung Kwu Tan in Tuen Mun via service provider arm, HGC Broadband.
Cable partner selected for UK fibre build
15 April 2021
UK access network infrastructure provider, Openreach has selected a key partner to provide optical cable solutions for its new full fibre broadband network.
Virgin and O2 merger provisionally cleared by regulator
14 April 2021
UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed merger between Virgin Media and O2.
Cignal AI: 400G+ coherent shipments tripled last year
12 April 2021
Market research firm Cignal AI has published its latest Transport Applications Report, covering the fourth quarter of last year.
Netherlands to gain €700m infrastructure
7 April 2021
Investment firm, KKR and investment management platform, DTCP have teamed up to launch independent infrastructure platform, Open Dutch Fiber.
Zayo increases capacity across pan-European network
30 March 2021
Zayo Group has committed to providing increased optical network capacity and reach between Dublin, Ireland and Amsterdam, Netherlands in what the firm calls an ‘important step’ towards enabling 400G in the region.
Update: II-VI wins Coherent bidding war
26 March 2021
II-VI Incorporated is to acquire Coherent for approximately $7.01bn.
Update: New Ofcom regulations - industry responses
23 March 2021
UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom has confirmed how it plans to regulate the wholesale telecoms markets for the next five years and beyond.
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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
