KKR’s Telefónica Chile acquisition to provide open access network
23 February 2021
Investment firm KKR has entered into a $1bn agreement with Telefónica to create an open access wholesale company in Chile.
FTTH in the Americas
Bogotá to gain neutral fibre network
11 February 2021
Bogotá is set to become the first city in Colombia, Latin America to benefit from a neutral fibre network in the wholesale telecommunications market.
High-speed connectivity coming to Brazil’s Amazon region
2 February 2021
An environmentally sensitive region of Brazil is to benefit from high-speed connectivity thanks to a project that involves laying fibre-optic cables on the river beds of the Amazon Basin.
North Carolina city to benefit from new fibre network
22 January 2021
The US City of Greenville is to receive a $40m investment into bringing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) directly to residents.
Bolivian city to reach new heights of connectivity
6 January 2021
Potosí, Bolivia, the highest city in the world, is set to benefit from the deployment of a GPON broadband network.
10m rural Americans to receive high-speed broadband following FCC auction
8 December 2020
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the results of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction.
Fibre infrastructure expanded across three Mexican cities
7 December 2020
Lumen Technologies has expanded its network infrastructure in México.
TEC takes 10G services to mid-south America
12 August 2020
Rural service provider, TEC is to bring 10G services across the mid-south region of America.
Canadian government invests in rural fibre projects
5 August 2020
The Government of Canada investment is investing $8.5m in fibre to help residents of rural areas access high-speed internet.
Orange County gains FTTH network to keep rural users connected
20 July 2020
The Orange County Broadband Authority (OCBA) is connecting residents in the predominantly rural region with its own fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, after experiencing difficulty finding an ISP to service the area.
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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
