Begin at home
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
INCA
Study highlights significant investment in UK Altnet sector
13 October 2020
A recent report shows more than £1.76bn of private funding related to the independent sector was announced between the start of 2019 and September 2020.
Designing the Gigabit Nation
The challenge of “full fibre by 2025” presents a new level of challenge to our sector. The old ways of working are probably not going to deliver – new approaches are needed. This webinar will look at some of the new technical and deployment advances that will form a part of the new phase of network delivery.
Riding The Second Wave
This webinar workshop aims to bring the key stakeholders together – the Government, Ofcom, investors and new network operators – to help establish the requirements and environment for the sector to grow and meet the needs of a 21st century digital nation.
Fibre in a 5G World
The development of 5G and IoT networks presents a new layer of demand for fibre networks, and places new demands on the underlying architecture of fibre networks. This webinar will explore the commercial opportunity of these demands, and probe how it can be delivered. The online event will be focused at operators, investors and the commercial and operational requirements of fibre networks to support 5G networks.
UK altnets increase coverage by 50 per cent, 12m premises passed
9 April 2020
A recent INCA survey has revealed that the UK’s independent network providers (altnets) increased their full-fibre coverage by 50 per cent in 2019.
INCA brings events online, offers clarification for key workers
24 March 2020
The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) is to move all of its planned events online, and make a reduction in costs for all those participating.
UK Labour Party pledges free full-fibre for all
15 November 2019
The UK’s opposition party, Labour has announced a pledge to deliver free full fibre-broadband for all.
Gold award for wireless provider
10 June 2019
Secure Web Services (SWS) has become the first wireless services provider to achieve the Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) Gold Standard Quality Mark
UK High Court rules in favour of ASA on use of ‘fibre’ in advertising
15 April 2019
The High Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority over its decision on the use of the term ‘fibre’ in advertising.
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As the pandemic underlines the value of the internet more than ever, its underlying technology is making one of its biggest transitions for years.
The data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data centre or cloud service provider.
As the world struggles to settle into the ‘new normal’, today’s optical networks need to be flexible in their architecture blueprint, while adapting to new technologies to provide the kinds of new capacity and service options to meet accelerated demand for higher bandwidth.
To address the undeniable growing demand for higher bandwidth, optical vendors have been playing their role with the development of various coherent optical transceivers for different areas of the market, each with its own set of design considerations.
The demand for bandwidth has unarguably skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to the increased appetite for online gaming, content streaming and social-media use.
The importance of reliable connectivity has never been more recognised than it is now. While ambitious targets have been in place across the world for fibre deployment for some time, the ongoing pandemic has served to push it to the forefront.
Looking into the future of telecommunications, it could be argued that AI and telcos will effectively transform each other, explains Raf Meersman
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Altnets could be the key to connecting rural areas in 2021, argues Michael Armitage
A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
