Engineering firm goes hybrid for North of England full-fibre delivery
12 November 2020
Construction and engineering firm nmcn has been chosen by CityFibre to deliver its full-fibre rollouts across Barnsley and Halifax in the North of England.
FTTH in Europe
According to plan
9 November 2020
In the first of a new three-part series, Keely Portway addresses some of the challenges and opportunities during individual processes of the FTTH ‘chain.’ This issue, network planning and design
Monmouth Town (© Christopher Smith 2014)
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.
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.
Vivacom Bulgaria accelerates broadband coverage with next-generation fibre network
13 October 2020
Bulgarian fibre access provider, Vivacom is accelerating its broadband coverage across the country.
Shifting sands
28 September 2020
Georgina Williams takes a look at how voice communication in the UK has evolved and what it could look like in the future
Planner partner selected for Openreach network extension
21 September 2020
UK-based planner and systems integrator, Telent has won a contract to support a £12bn project designed to bring full-fibre to millions of UK homes and businesses.
Altitude Infrastructure to invest €2.5bn in French fibre
21 September 2020
Altitude Infrastructure has raised €500m in equity and junior debt and plans to invest €2.5bn over the next three years to accelerate the development of fibre in France.
Open Fiber accelerates Italian FTTH adoption with Nokia
10 September 2020
Italian infrastructure operator, Open Fiber is expanding its FTTH network across the country.
FTTH Conference, Berlin moves to September 2021
10 September 2020
The FTTH Council Europe has rescheduled this year’s physical FTTH Conference to take place in September 2021.
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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
