Virgin and O2 merger provisionally cleared by regulator
14 April 2021
UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed merger between Virgin Media and O2.
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Infrastructure build partner selected for London roll-out
13 April 2021
Infrastructure services contractor, Kelly Group has been selected to partner with independent provider, Community Fibre on the latter’s full-fibre roll-out in London, UK.
Breaking barriers
12 April 2021
Neil Bessant ponders whether advances in technology could change the skills requirements for network engineers
Cignal AI: 400G+ coherent shipments tripled last year
12 April 2021
Market research firm Cignal AI has published its latest Transport Applications Report, covering the fourth quarter of last year.
Researchers demo 1,100km transmission of 800G
7 April 2021
A team of researchers from China Mobile Research Institute has successfully tested the 1,100km transmission of 800G systems.
Netherlands to gain €700m infrastructure
7 April 2021
Investment firm, KKR and investment management platform, DTCP have teamed up to launch independent infrastructure platform, Open Dutch Fiber.
Access equipment spend highest since 2016, says Dell’Oro
12 March 2021
Market information firm, Dell’Oro Group has published its Broadband Access Quarterly Report for the fourth quarter of 2020.
UK north and south-west regions fuelled by fibre funding
11 March 2021
Blackpool in the UK’s north-west is to receive investment of £60m as part of independent provider, CityFibre’s plans to upgrade legacy networks with full-fibre.
EllaLink subsea cable construction complete, second stage announced
11 March 2021
EllaLink has completed the marine installation stage of its trans-Atlantic cable system between Europe and Latin America.
OFC 2021 goes fully virtual
10 March 2021
Organisers of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) have taken the decision to change the 2021 event’s format from a hybrid physical-digital to an all-virtual event.
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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
