Bulgarian fibre access provider, Vivacom is accelerating its broadband coverage across the country.
German service provider, Telefónica Deutschland is preparing its network to adapt to escalating data traffic and bandwidth demands.
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is set to deploy a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network.
Australia’s wholesale open-access broadband provider NBN Co is deploying Infinera’s Transcend software-defined networking (SDN) solution.
This year’s NGON and DCI Europe conference in Nice saw the launch of Wave2Wave Solution's new Connectivity as a Service (CaaS) offering, which has been developed to help operators more efficiently automate the physical layer.
Vodafone has successfully completed a live network trial in Spain as part of its work with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), using the Voyager optical ‘white box.’
The goal of the live trial was to showcase the future of applying a disaggregated model to optical networks and to provide more flexibility to handle the real time dynamics using Voyager, combined with a software-defined network (SDN) controller.
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) took to the podium at this year’s NGON and DCI Europe conference in Nice to reveal the results of its 2018 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) multi-vendor interoperability demonstration.
Telenor Group is replacing its legacy optical backbone network across Norway and Sweden and has selected Nokia as sole supplier for the work. The upgrade will involve replacing its current optical core network, which connects major centres across Norway and Sweden. It is designed to provide a much-needed increase in bandwidth capacity throughout the countries.
The SoftFIRE project consortium is calling for applications to its challenge on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), Software Defined Network (SDN), and 5G technologies. The call goes out to all technologists, visionaries, and practitioners involved in these fields.
Helen Xenos explains how telcos can unlock the full potential of their existing fibre connections, allowing them to offer bursts of additional capacity without having to physically build out the network
Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock.com
While the ongoing pandemic has created widespread disruption and uncertainty, one of the results is the increased rate of FTTH/B subscribers.
Sabelskaya/Shutterstock.com
There is no denying that 5G is a hot topic in the telecommunications industry.
Fibre Systems takes a glance at the current market for 400G technology, and some of the latest developments available
High-density fibre can enable a new world of communication (image credit: Corning)
In 2021 we face a new world of communication, partly due to Covid-19, according to Jitendra Balakrishnan, CTO, connectivity solutions at Sterlite Technologies (STL).
Image credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock.com
Panelists from Polimi, CTTC, TUE and The University Carlos III of Madrid give their views on the future multi Tb/S metro network
The recent virtual OFC Conference covered some of the industry’s hottest topics. Keely Portway reports from the Market Watch conference talk about the current state of the industry.
What are the implications for UK providers and industry from the all-IP migration changes, One Touch Switching and Ofcom Telecoms Market Review? Mike Locke explains
