Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
Editor's picks
CityFibre’s recruitment programme will include the identification and training of thousands of unemployed UK residents
There's a shortage of skilled fibre professionals in Europe. How can we, as an industry, work towards addressing this? Keely Portway finds out
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News
17 November 2020
Hitachi High-Tech is to acquire VLC Photonics, making it a subsidiary company through which it will continue to provide photonic integrated circuit (PIC) engineering services.
16 November 2020
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have demonstrated the first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gb/s and beyond without the use of digital signal processing (DSP).
13 November 2020
Industry analyst firm, LightCounting has released its latest research note, which provides analysis of the latest quarterly financial reports.
13 November 2020
Start-up, Vector Photonics has received a £280k grant from UK government to support project LOCAL, or to give it its full title, Lasers for Communications Applications.
12 November 2020
Construction and engineering firm nmcn has been chosen by CityFibre to deliver its full-fibre rollouts across Barnsley and Halifax in the North of England.
12 November 2020
International network service provider, RETN has updated its Eurasian network to accommodate a recent rapid increase in network traffic.
Analysis & opinion
26 November 2020
Leading industry lights talk to Keely Portway about the challenges and opportunities faced by the optical communications supply chain in the last 12 months, and predict what could lie ahead
25 November 2020
Mark Lutkowitz on future 400ZR pricing, its impact on certain key vendors and the outlook for 400ZR+ and 800ZR
25 November 2020
The all-important multi-vendor interoperability can only be achieved via industry collaboration, finds Keely Portway
Features
26 November 2020
Recovery plans for a post-pandemic world have one key ingredient in common across the globe – sustainability. Keely Portway outlines how the telecoms sector is playing its not insignificant part
25 November 2020
Keely Portway on how the pandemic has affected FTTH deployment in Europe and America, and what needs to be done in the next 12 months to meet various governments’ ambitious targets
23 November 2020
Keely Portway examines the latest 400ZR implementation agreement and asks, what does it mean for test and measurement?
CityFibre’s recruitment programme will include the identification and training of thousands of unemployed UK residents
13 November 2020
There's a shortage of skilled fibre professionals in Europe. How can we, as an industry, work towards addressing this? Keely Portway finds out
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Product News
13 November 2020
Optelian has introduced its Deploy Anywhere (DA) Series – a multi-service, compact and hardened (OSP-compliant) platform designed for multi-haul transport upgrades, remote business services access and fiber deep architectures.
07 October 2020
Acacia Communications is sampling a new 100G coherent dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) pluggable solution.
06 October 2020
Viavi Solutions has introduced new test and measurement offerings for optical lab, production and manufacturing environments.
05 October 2020
Micos Telcom has launched the MTeH MINI, a next-generation indoor wall-mounted fibre box.
30 September 2020
VeEX has launched the MTX150x dual 10G Ethernet installation and maintenance handheld test set.
23 September 2020
Rehau Telecommunications unveiled its latest distribution network solution, Rauspeed, to the UK market at the virtual Connected Britain event.
22 September 2020
Omnitron Systems has introduced its next generation of OmniConverter 10GbE switch products with power over Ethernet (PoE) up to 100W.
21 September 2020
Swiss connectivity provider, R&M has launched the Prime ribbon distribution module.
Press releases
Eddie Edwards, president and chief executive officer at CommScope has stepped down after 15 years of service.
Corning Incorporated has joined the optical communications industry in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of low-loss optical fibre.
The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance published its second 5G White Paper and has launched further projects based on its conclusions.
DZS has announced the consolidation of its acquired brands under DZS and its new senior leadership team and organizational structure designed to accelerate globalization of its groundbreaking innovations.
The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance has named Anita Döhler as new CEO and board director.
Events
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The plans for an economic recovery will undoubtedly need vast levels of public and private investment.
Leading industry lights talk to Keely Portway about the challenges and opportunities faced by the optical communications supply chain in the last 12 months, and predict what could lie ahead
Mark Lutkowitz on future 400ZR pricing, its impact on certain key vendors and the outlook for 400ZR+ and 800ZR
While the Covid-19 crisis clearly impacted infrastructure deployment in Europe in 2020, it also undoubtedly reinforced operators’ mid-term FTTH ambitions
The all-important multi-vendor interoperability can only be achieved via industry collaboration, finds Keely Portway
2020 has shown standards are key to building the networks of tomorrow, and that’s something to be excited about, argues Bernd Hesse
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
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