Cignal AI: 400G+ coherent shipments tripled last year
12 April 2021
Market research firm Cignal AI has published its latest Transport Applications Report, covering the fourth quarter of last year.
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Access equipment spend highest since 2016, says Dell’Oro
12 March 2021
Market information firm, Dell’Oro Group has published its Broadband Access Quarterly Report for the fourth quarter of 2020.
France reports record fibre figures
10 March 2021
The French Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Post (Arcep) has released its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market in France as of the end of December 2020.
Fibre forecasts revealed at FTTH Conference
3 December 2020
The latest European market forecast for the period 2020-2026 was revealed at the virtual FTTH Conference, alongside a flash update of the 2020 FTTH Market Panorama.
Key developments of 2020
24 November 2020
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
LightCounting research note highlights steady Q3
13 November 2020
Industry analyst firm, LightCounting has released its latest research note, which provides analysis of the latest quarterly financial reports.
Study highlights significant investment in UK Altnet sector
13 October 2020
A recent report shows more than £1.76bn of private funding related to the independent sector was announced between the start of 2019 and September 2020.
What's fixed got to do with it?
24 April 2020
Five industry experts from the Broadband Forum talk top broadband trends
European Market Panorama 2020: 172m homes passed; Iceland bags top-spot
23 April 2020
The FTTH Council Europe, in partnership with Idate, has revealed the latest 2020 Market Panorama figures, detailing fibre deployment trends in Europe.
Survey launched to aid cable installer productivity
6 April 2020
Ideal Networks has launched a survey for users of its LanTEK IV cable certifier with a view helping cable installers maximise productivity.
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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
