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Keely Portway reports on the popular Market Watch panel that took place at OFC 2022, focusing on the current state of the optical market
Keely Portway reports on the popular Market Watch panel that took place at OFC 2022, focusing on the current state of the optical market
Industry research firm, LightCounting has published its December 2021 Quarterly Market Update
Keely Portway looks at what the current semiconductor shortage could mean for telecoms in 2022
The University of Glasgow has received a grant worth £2.6m towards the build of a new facility to test 6G communications systems.
Yokogawa has launched a new optical spectrum analyzer (OSA)
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.
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).
Panelists from Polimi, CTTC, TUE and The University Carlos III of Madrid give their views on the future multi Tb/S metro network
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 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.
Some of the hottest topics from the OFC conference in San Diego
What are the top trends, challenges and technologies driving data centre networks in 2023 and beyond?
How North and Latin America are faring when it comes to fibre deployment
We round up the latest high-capacity optics for coherent optical transmission in 2023.
The optical technology and techniques that terrestrial network operators need to consider to achieve high-performance in challenging conditions
Nesa Scopic advises on the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) fire safety standards for fibre cables, and how to choose the optimal cabling for the correct setting
Mattias Fridström offers his take on the telecoms topics that are going to matter in the next 12 months
Teresa Monteiro reveals why there is more to open networking than physical device interoperability