Outlook positive for components despite slow Q3, says LightCounting
15 December 2021
Industry research firm, LightCounting has published its December 2021 Quarterly Market Update
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When the chips are down
1 December 2021
Keely Portway looks at what the current semiconductor shortage could mean for telecoms in 2022
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£2.6m grant awarded for 6G tech development
23 November 2021
The University of Glasgow has received a grant worth £2.6m towards the build of a new facility to test 6G communications systems.
Spectrum analyzer to help next-gen backhaul component development
16 September 2021
Yokogawa has launched a new optical spectrum analyzer (OSA)
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AT&T: Supply chain issues to impact FTTH rollout
13 August 2021
U.S. provider AT&T will experience delays to its ambitious fibre rollout programme due to shortages in global semiconductors impacting component and fibre production.
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Since its emergence in the late 2000s, coherent technology has undergone several transitions. First it went from 40G to 100G, then from hard-decision forward error correction (FEC) to soft-decision FEC, and finally from single-rate interfaces to flexible-rate interfaces with additional modulation schemes such as 8QAM (150 Gb/s) and 16QAM (200 Gb/s).
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A passion for metro
1 July 2021
Panelists from Polimi, CTTC, TUE and The University Carlos III of Madrid give their views on the future multi Tb/S metro network
Photonics organisations forge partnership
8 June 2021
The IEEE Photonics Society and the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) have entered into an agreement to promote joint activities, cross-disciplinary technical dissemination and cooperative programs between membership bodies.
Zayo increases capacity across pan-European network
30 March 2021
Zayo Group has committed to providing increased optical network capacity and reach between Dublin, Ireland and Amsterdam, Netherlands in what the firm calls an ‘important step’ towards enabling 400G in the region.
Update: II-VI wins Coherent bidding war
26 March 2021
II-VI Incorporated is to acquire Coherent for approximately $7.01bn.
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