The purpose of this document is to guide UK network planners and engineers through the design, selection, and identification of the necessary components for fibre optic networks that best suit their specific application needs.
Orange Polska is to create a new company to increase fibre roll-out in the country and is looking for investment partners.
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is set to deploy a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network.
A new fibre-optic network is set to bridge the digital divide in the Ukraine, connecting 200 towns and villages.
Emtelle has collaborated with CommScope to further expand its fibre connectivity portfolio.
Niall Looney summarises his business experience to date in dealing with the current Covid-19 pandemic, from a network design consultancy’s point-of-view
Bethells Beach, New Zealand
New Zealand’s National Government has pledged $270m further investment to fast-track the roll-out of ultra-fast broadband.
Jay Tourigny discusses the challenges of cleaning high-density fibre connections in giant data centres and how they can be overcome
Emtelle has opened a new fibre termination facility to help continually meet the growing appetite for pre-connectorised fibre solutions.
Nigerian internet service provider (ISP), Spectranet has chosen Nokia to help bring high-speed access to customers in Lagos and Abuja.
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has changed many areas of our daily life, from going to a place of work, how we spend our holidays, to eating out and socialising with friends and family. For fibre engineers, it has arguably had a much greater impact.
In 2020, video calls have become ubiquitous thanks to Covid-19, revealing many people’s ‘lousy home broadband’, according to Geoff Bennett, director, solutions and technology, at Infinera.
It’s reasonable to say that the biggest disruptive influence this year has been the global pandemic that still currently has a grip on our lives.
PIA has proven its value in a project to build a carrier-independent dark fibre route between Bristol and South Wales in the UK. Mark Weller explains
Koji Okamoto underlines the importance of rebooting test processes for the ‘new normal’
Geoff Bennett evaluates how 50 years of innovation in optical communications has more recently helped to bring light from the shadow of Covid-19
Guillaume Baral outlines some of the significant benefits of adopting a more agile, modular approach to product development for fibre networks
There is a massive commercial opportunity that fibre network providers are leaving in the ground, says Stuart Large
Mattias Fridström looks at the role of software and collaboration in maximising optical networks in the future
