The installation of an optical fibre submarine cable spanning the south Pacific has been approved at a crucial meeting of regional telecommunications leaders.
Ciena has completed an upgrade to the SEA-ME-WE 5 (South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 5) submarine cable system.
Google, in partnership with SubCom, has completed the installation of submarine cable uniting Chile and California.
Liquid Telecom Kenya has chosen Nokia to help upgrade its existing fibre network in order to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G.
A new agreement between Telia Carrier and Telxius will combine transatlantic capacity from the MAREA cable system and Telia Carrier’s European backbone network.
The TeraWave SCUBA150 optical fibre from OFS Optics has demonstrated that it can enable transport of 300Gb/s over a 14,000km link.
Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded Prysmian Group a new contract worth around €50 million to develop a turnkey repeaterless submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.
Geoff Bennett outlines three myths surrounding optical capacity, and how they can be dispelled
Telstra is giving its network services in Asia Pacific a boost, with a dramatic increase in fibre capacity to its subsea infrastructure, following an alliance with Infinera.
Padtec has agreed to sell its submarine optical systems division to IPG Photonics.
Daniel Schall’s experiments in 2009 quickly demonstrated to him and his colleagues ‘that the optical properties of graphene were absolutely unique’.
Multimode fibre has long been the mainstay of data centre networks due to its ability to provide an economical system for high-speed connections between servers, switches and storage.
A look at building future-ready terrestrial networks with hybrid optical fibre cables, with Sergei Makovejs and Matthew Guinan
Jay Tourigny discusses the challenges of cleaning high-density fibre connections in giant data centres and how they can be overcome
PIC your test to deliver reliable optical component performance in a next-generation world, says François Couny
The UK’s nationwide rail network should be a strategic component of digital Britain, says Mark Weller
Raf Meersman offers three routes to 5G that could ensure less capital and operational expenditure for operators, for all of which, convergence is key
