Vodafone, Nokia successfully trial 100Gb/s PON technology
2 February 2021
Nokia and Vodafone have successfully trialled a new passive optical network (PON) technology capable of delivering speeds up to 100Gb/s on a single wavelength.
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Can we fix it?
22 January 2021
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Latest Broadband Forum release for OB-BAA to provide greater networking flexibility
30 October 2020
Broadband Forum has published the latest release of its Open Broadband – Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA) open-source project.
Vivacom Bulgaria accelerates broadband coverage with next-generation fibre network
13 October 2020
Bulgarian fibre access provider, Vivacom is accelerating its broadband coverage across the country.
Open Fiber accelerates Italian FTTH adoption with Nokia
10 September 2020
Italian infrastructure operator, Open Fiber is expanding its FTTH network across the country.
Sri Lanka Telecom to deploy next generation FTTH network
17 July 2020
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is set to deploy a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network.
National Broadband Ireland selects supplier for FTTH roll-out
25 June 2020
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) has selected Nokia to deploy a nationwide FTTH network solution in the Republic of Ireland.
Nokia wins two DCI contracts with China webscale operators
17 June 2020
Nokia has been selected by two China-based webscale giants, Tencent and Baidu, to provide data center interconnect (DCI) network solutions to support growing cloud operations.
Openreach selects Nokia GPON and XGS-PON technology to bring fibre to 20m
29 May 2020
Openreach has chosen to deploy fibre solutions from Nokia in its quest to bring fast and reliable broadband access to 20 million homes across the UK by the mid-to-late 2020s.
Nokia acquires Elenion to expand market footprint
19 February 2020
Nokia is acquiring silicon photonics specialist, Elenion Technologies.
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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
