By Beth Harlen
Within telecoms circles, the term ‘network neutrality’ often evokes a strong reaction as there are few subjects within the industry that are quite as polarised legally, politically and practically.
By Beth Harlen
Within telecoms circles, the term ‘network neutrality’ often evokes a strong reaction as there are few subjects within the industry that are quite as polarised legally, politically and practically.
By Ronan Kelly, chief technology officer for EMEA and APAC at ADTRAN
By Robert Roe
GreenTouch, a consortium dedicated to improving the energy efficiency of data communications networks, has unveiled new tools, technologies and architectures as part of a five-year study that was completed at the end of June 2015.
By Pauline Rigby
June will be a defining month for photonic integration in the United States. The US government is expected to announce the winners of its $110 million integrated photonics manufacturing initiative.
By Dr. Maxim Kuschnerov
The future never works out quite how you planned. After introducing 100G coherent technology into core and submarine networks, product design engineers now lust for a progression of proprietary coherent interfaces for the metro sector, enabled by falling component costs and higher-order modulation schemes that decrease the cost per bit of the physical interfaces.
Playing games is not just a bit of fun; it is also big business; and it illustrates the importance of fibre to the home, according to Nadia Babaali
By Giacomo Losio, head of technology at ProLabs
ECOC 2014, the largest European optical communication conference, was a fascinating show. We saw myriad demonstrations of compact 100G devices in QSFP+ and CFP4 form factor, as well as multi-vendor interoperability of optical links where these two form factors are used. 100G client interfaces have reached a point where they can really enable design of dense systems.
Growth of affordable transceivers
By Bertrand Clesca, head of global marketing, Xtera Communications
By Stu Benington, vice president of cloud and SDN business unit, Coriant
The evolving connectivity needs of both businesses and consumers are piling the pressure on service providers on a daily basis. Traditional business models are being exposed as outdated, while the limitations of traditional static transport architectures are being challenged.
Michelle Pauli, a writer for JISC, examines a dark fibre project that will enable researchers to explore the future internet
How can researchers do the very necessary work of experimenting with a future internet and its technologies without breaking the internet we already have?
'Dark fibre' is the key, and UK researchers now have access to a whole lot more of it, thanks to the arrival of Aurora2, the National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service (NDFIS).
Cable miniaturisation in FTTH deployments: choosing the right 200-micron fibre for outside plant networks, by Vanesa Diaz, Corning
By Geoff Bennett, of Infinera
Writing anything about software defined networking (SDN) is guaranteed to get attention these days. It’s a hot topic – not least because it really does offer a way to remove the domination of the Ethernet switch and core router markets by the established players and open up new possibilities for network functions virtualisation for network operators.
What is SDN?
New tools and processes do more of the heavy lifting in managing networks to deliver seamless connectivity, but suppliers are still seeking the Holy Grail of full automation, finds Benjamin Skuse
The world is poised for 10-gigabit networks, and advances in DOCSIS 4.0 solutions could bring us closer to this reality, finds Alice Jensen
A look at the market for optical transport equipment, including the vendors of some of the latest hardware products and solutions.
Abigail Williams looks at how European network developers are overcoming the challenges they face in expanding fibre deployments
Charlie Cassie highlights the latest recruitment trends that fibre network providers, owners and operators need to think about if they are looking to hire great telecoms talent
Colin Yates highlights the benefits of digital data capture for telecoms engineers, installers and other field-based professionals