Equity firm, Warburg Pincus and investment management group, DTCP have agreed to acquire a majority stake in London’s Community Fibre.
DIF Capital Partners is to invest in the French independent fibre optic operator IELO to help accelerate its network’s roll-out.
Nexans and Leviton Network Solutions have reached an agreement in which the latter will acquire Berk-Tek from the former. The transaction is worth $202m.
Payment and fleet services firm, Radius Payment Solutions has launched Radius Connect, a converged technology, mobile and fixed line telecommunications provider to UK businesses.
European IT systems supplier, S&T AG has signed contracts for the acquisition of the Iskratel Group.
Cleaning specialist, MicroCare has been purchased by investment firm, Capital Partners after the latter completed a control investment in the former, in partnership with the company’s co-founder and senior management.
Hexatronic Group has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares in UK fibre optic product supplier and cable assembly manufacturer, Tech Optics.
Fibre optic data, internet, data centre, cloud computing and unified communications service provider, FirstLight has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of DFT Communications.
Microsoft has signed a definitive agreement to acquire virtualized network software provider, Metaswitch Networks.
New Zealand provider Vocus has entered an agreement to acquire Stuff Fibre from parent company Stuff Ltd.
The Winter edition of Fibre Systems dispelled some myths when it comes to multimode fibre, and looked at the opportunities it currently presents to the data centre market.
Keely Portway takes a look at the market for test and measurement equipment in the current climate, and some of the latest tools available
A look at how the kind of full-fibre infrastructure that will be essential to support 5G can be realised in line with roll-out targets
The Covid-19 pandemic has and continues to affect every-day life throughout the world. In the optical communications industry, the first obvious signs were when events began to postpone, cancel and reschedule.
After more than a decade’s work, the prospect of full quantum networks exploiting entangled photons is drawing closer. That’s thanks to the work of researchers like Hee Su Park from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS).
Five industry experts from the Broadband Forum talk top broadband trends
Keely Portway on how the optical communications industry has come together to counteract fake 5G news
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
