Transport and access equipment vendor, DZS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire networking solution provider, Optelian.
Altnets could be the key to connecting rural areas in 2021, argues Michael Armitage
Orange is to build a new generation submarine cable connecting France to the United States.
Lumentum is to acquire Coherent for $5.7bn, bringing the latter’s photonics and lasers businesses into the former’s telecom, datacom, and 3D sensing photonics businesses.
Cisco and Acacia Communications have now reached an agreement regarding their proposed merger, with an amendment to the original agreement
Exfo has been chosen by Openreach to collaborate on its major initiative to accelerate full-fibre deployment, and enhance the quality of build and experience across the UK.
Potosí, Bolivia, the highest city in the world, is set to benefit from the deployment of a GPON broadband network.
European bandwidth infrastructure firm, euNetworks has acquired 100 per cent shares of duct and sub-duct based fibre network, The Loop Manchester from Gamma Telecom.
A new Bloomberg Intelligence report predicts a consolidation comeback in the European telecom market this year.
Openreach, the access network division of BT Group, is creating 5,300 UK-based engineering jobs, to be filled this year.
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
Large webscale internet content providers have undoubtedly been the wielders of power in recent years. The only thing greater for them, has been their hunger for data.
