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.
FTTH in the Americas
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.
FirstLight acquires a portion of DFT’s fibre network
3 June 2020
Fibre optic data, internet, data centre, cloud computing and unified communications service provider, FirstLight has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of DFT Communications.
Intelligent Fiber Network plans significant market expansion
28 May 2020
Indianapolis-based fibre broadband provider, Intelligent Fiber Network (IFN) is making plans for market expansion, targeting around 80,000 identified and serviceable locations.
SiFi Networks awarded $50m funding for North America fibre expansion
22 May 2020
North American developer of open access fiber optic networks, SiFi Networks has secured significant investment from the Smart City Infrastructure Fund to bring high speed connectivity to more areas of the USA.
Canadian province draws on dark fibre in difficult times
18 May 2020
The government of the Canadian province of Manitoba is to make use of its unused ‘vast’ fibre optic network.
Prysmian to help bring high-speed connection to 52 Mexican cities
16 January 2020
Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract by Mexican government-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to supply fibre cables to connect some of the country’s most remote regions.
Deployments to 90 per cent of US homes achievable in 10 years
10 September 2019
A new study has been released exploring the costs associated with deploying fibre networks to all households across the US.
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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
