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Sense of security
4 July 2022
Keely Portway reviews some of the ways optical sensing has been used in communications for complementary applications
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Google’s Equiano cable arrives in South Africa
9 August 2022
Google’s 144Tb/s, 12 fibre-pair subsea cable will have a direct impact on connectivity throughout the Southern Africa region.
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Researchers transform subsea cable into arrays of environmental sensors
19 May 2022
A team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have successfully demonstrated a new technique that can transform undersea power and telecom cables into arrays of environmental sensors.
New Google submarine cable to link Canada and Asia
12 April 2022
Google has launched its new Topaz subsea cable – the first to connect Asia and Canada.
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Sparkle partners with Google for two new subsea cables
30 July 2021
Sparkle is collaborating with a number of partners, including Google to build two new submarine cable systems.
800G transceivers to dominate mega data centre market, says LightCounting
21 July 2021
Industry research firm LightCounting has released its Mega Datacenter Optics Report for 2021.
Researchers use subsea cables to detect earthquakes
1 March 2021
A team of seismologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in partnership with optics experts at Google, have developed a method to use existing subsea cables to detect earthquakes.
Orange launches new subsea cable connecting France, US
21 January 2021
Orange is to build a new generation submarine cable connecting France to the United States.
Key developments of 2020
24 November 2020
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
Google builds new subsea cable connecting US, UK and Spain
29 July 2020
Google is building a new submarine cable to connect the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain.
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A look at some of the challenges faced by submarine network operators, and the ways in which they can maximise performance, whatever their cable system
A look at the market for access equipment and some of the products and solutions available
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Abigail Williams offers a market update on fibre network deployments in the Middle East And North Africa (MENA) region
Zeusconnects Lowestoft in the UK to Zandvoort in the Netherlands (credit: Zayo)
Can subsea cables cope with a world in flux? Alice Jensen finds out
Richard Thorpe, chief delivery officer at CityFibre
Richard Thorpe advises how a partnership approach can ease the procurement process for altnets.
According to Liam Taylor, the answer lies in the detail
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Railway networks not only make for great people and freight transport networks, they also make for great optical transport networks. Jonathan Homa explains what the railway industry needs to consider when building out optical transport links.
