ECOC exhibition goes virtual
30 September 2020
The organisers of the annual ECOC Exhibition have taken the decision to move this year’s 25th anniversary event fully online.
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PIT Chile deploys new DCI link, observing social distancing
17 September 2020
Internet exchange point (IXP), PIT Chile has deployed PacketLight’s PL-2000T transponder to connect two of its data centres in Santiago, Chile.
FTTH Conference, Berlin moves to September 2021
10 September 2020
The FTTH Council Europe has rescheduled this year’s physical FTTH Conference to take place in September 2021.
Open source networking solutions provider to cease trading
19 August 2020
San Jose-based open source software defined networks (SDN) solution provider, Lumina Networks is to close its doors.
Going for gold
6 July 2020
Geoff Bennett evaluates how 50 years of innovation in optical communications has more recently helped to bring light from the shadow of Covid-19
Covid-19 ward receives critical comms RF over fibre link
26 June 2020
The Covid-19 ward in the UK’s Royal Liverpool Hospital had a new paging system installed to help recovering patients gain independence.
Critical infrastructure deployed in Tyne & Wear to support covid blue light service
18 June 2020
SSE Enterprise Telecoms and NYnet are supporting the infrastructure development of an NHS Extended Access Hub in Tyne and Wear in the UK.
UK fibre roll-out programme to boost 10,000 jobs amidst covid recovery
15 June 2020
Alternative network provider, CityFibre has committed to a three-year recruitment and training programme to provide up to 10,000 jobs upgrading the UK’s digital infrastructure to full fibre.
Engineer goes wild for keeping remote customers connected during Covid
26 May 2020
Openreach engineer Scott McPartlin pitched in to help remote, vulnerable residents on the island of Coll, stay connected during lockdown.
Northamptonshire hits 10,000 rural properties connected to fibre, £5bn pledged for more
20 May 2020
The county of Northamptonshire in the UK has seen some 10,000 rural properties upgraded to ultrafast-fibre.
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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
