Business

Fibercore, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of specialty optical fibre has appointed Karen Moore as its US account manager. Karen brings 17 years of technical sales and sales management experience to the role.

Karen joins Fibercore having demonstrated success within both large established public companies, having spent 10 years at Corning, and smaller private companies including Nufern, Xanoptix, Precision Filters, and Photonic Controls. Karen also spent six years as a lieutenant in the Civil Engineer Corps in the U. S. Navy.

MRV Communications' OptiDriver optical transport platform has been named a finalist by the TechAmerica Foundation for an American Technology Award in the telecommunications category.

NORDUnet, an international collaboration between the Nordic national computer networks for research and education (R&E), is transforming its network to offer flexible, high-capacity and resilient network connections to the Nordic National Research and Education Networks (NREN) community.

A report revealing the challenges for deploying superfast broadband to connect the final five per cent of the country is to be presented at NextGen Expo Scotland.

The Carnegie UK Trust report Making Digital Real: Case Studies of How to Help the Final Fifth Get Online will be discussed at the show during a special superfast broadband masterclass.

The event is set to bring together digital suppliers and key decision makers to share ideas on how best to strengthen the economy through a digital future.

Adtran, a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, has announced the expansion of its TL 9000 Certification across facilities and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) product categories.

Plans have been announced for the inaugural BroadbandVision show, which will be held from 1 to 3 October at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Organisers say the trade show will facilitate discussions and discovery on the most relevant topics related to the services, technologies and applications that will define the future of the broadband industry as well as 'providing an insight into the opportunities for success at every layer of the broadband carrier ecosystem'.

Vello Systems, a provider of software solutions for customer-defined data centre and cloud services networks, has added six partners in key global markets to meet service provider and enterprise demand for the company’s customer-defined networking software solutions.

The new additions to the Vello Partner Network are PRO-ZETA, HCL, Espo Systems, Accunet, DifferenceIT, and SDN Solusi.  These IT solutions providers will use Pacnet’s ‘Pacnet-enabled network’  to drive Vello’s software into new global markets with new applications.

Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract worth approximately €730 million to design, produce and install the power cable systems for the offshore wind park cluster, West of Adlergrund, in the German Baltic Sea.

The connection projects will involve the design, supply and installation of multiple high-voltage submarine cable systems between planned offshore wind parks, approximately 40 km north-east of the island of Ruegen, to the Lubmin substation in north east Germany (and consequently with the mainland electricity grid) along a route approximately 90 km long.

Chorus, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications infrastructure company, has selected IP routing technology from Alcatel-Lucent to build the core network that will power its ‘Chorus Accelerate’ program, which will offer customers broadband services over both copper and fiber networks.

Prysmian Group has been awarded an Australian contract worth approximately €30 million (AU$44 million) for 132 kV underground high voltage cables for the North Shore cable upgrade project by Ausgrid, a state-owned utility of New South Wales managing distribution and transmission assets.