Broadband Forum’s latest technical report has highlighted how fibre-based access could be provided using existing copper infrastructure instead of installing fibre to end-users’ premises.
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.
The Department for Enterprise has selected its preferred supplier, with designated fibre provider status, to deliver the Island’s National Broadband Plan.
Access network division of BT Group, Openreach has revealed its next steps for upgrading the UK’s old analogue phone network to a new digital 'All-IP' world.
Vodafone has struck a deal with Openreach, allowing it to expand its Gigafast broadband roll-out in the UK.
Philip Jansen has announced plans for the company to increase its FTTP ambition to 15 million UK premises passed.
Construction has started on a privately funded project to bring full-fibre to Braintree in Essex, UK, under County Broadband.
Openreach has opened a consultation to agree a framework to switch off the UK's copper networks
Salisbury is the UK’s first entire city to access Openreach’s new fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology under the Fibre First programme.
To support growing traffic demands of 5G and FTTP, BT has chosen to deploy Ciena’s Waveserver stackable data centre interconnect (DCI) platform to increase the capacity connecting its data centres to the UK’s main internet peering nodes.
BT’s has plans to deploy 5G in 16 cities in 2019, while forecasting residential broadband growth to remain at roughly 40 per cent annually. This means that significant new capacity is required in all areas of the network, and particularly on the main core links carrying this traffic.
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.
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A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
