Looking East
Abigail Williams provides a market update on fibre network deployments in the Asia Pacific region
Abigail Williams provides a market update on fibre network deployments in the Asia Pacific region
The initial rollout will connect 10,000 homes and businesses in the eight largest provinces of the country.
The move allows the provider to bring agility, scalability to meet growing bandwidth demand in the region, while adding more cities and towns to Multinet’s fibre network.
The upgrades are part of the nbn fibre upgrade program, which was recently boosted by $2.4bn of investment from the Australian Government.
The Australian operator has adopted Nokia’s Lightspan MF-14 platform to enable convergence of all services over a single fibre infrastructure
The company has deployed DigitalAsset sensing services including sophisticated vibrational sensors on fibre cables, from FiberSense.
TPG Telecom leveraged G.fast technology from Adtran.
Prysmian Group is to work with Australian operator, Telstra to build a new state-of-the-art intercapital fibre network in the market.
Fibre is the best broadband option for consumers concerned about carbon emissions, according to findings from Australasian research firm, Sapere Research Group.
Nokia and Vodafone Turkey have successfully completed a regional demonstration of a 1Tb/s per channel coherent transmission over the latter’s live optical network.
New tools and processes do more of the heavy lifting in managing networks to deliver seamless connectivity, but suppliers are still seeking the Holy Grail of full automation, finds Benjamin Skuse
The world is poised for 10-gigabit networks, and advances in DOCSIS 4.0 solutions could bring us closer to this reality, finds Alice Jensen
A look at the market for optical transport equipment, including the vendors of some of the latest hardware products and solutions.
Abigail Williams looks at how European network developers are overcoming the challenges they face in expanding fibre deployments
Charlie Cassie highlights the latest recruitment trends that fibre network providers, owners and operators need to think about if they are looking to hire great telecoms talent
Colin Yates highlights the benefits of digital data capture for telecoms engineers, installers and other field-based professionals