OFC 2021 goes fully virtual
10 March 2021
Organisers of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) have taken the decision to change the 2021 event’s format from a hybrid physical-digital to an all-virtual event.
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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.
Arsonists attack Essex broadband cabinets
2 February 2021
Three broadband cabinets and a mobile phone mast in the Chelmsford area of Essex, UK have been attacked by arsonists.
Can we fix it?
22 January 2021
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Update: Covid-19; a message to our readers and commercial partners
4 January 2021
We are still very much open for business!
Green future
26 November 2020
Recovery plans for a post-pandemic world have one key ingredient in common across the globe – sustainability. Keely Portway outlines how the telecoms sector is playing its not insignificant part
Key developments of 2020
24 November 2020
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
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Investment awarded for full-fibre delivery to 150,000 Welsh premises
28 October 2020
Welsh service provider Spectrum has been awarded a landmark investment from Infracapital to build full fibre broadband infrastructure across south Wales.
OFC 2021 shifts to Summer schedule
16 October 2020
The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2021) will now take place from 6 -10, June.
UK telecoms professionals royally rewarded for services during pandemic
14 October 2020
The Queen of England's birthday honours list has recently been published, and this year features more telecoms professionals than ever before.
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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
