STL reveals intelligently bonded ribbon cable at FTTH Conference
3 December 2020
STL launched the Celesta ribbon optical fibre cable at this year’s virtual FTTH Conference.
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Fibre forecasts revealed at FTTH Conference
3 December 2020
The latest European market forecast for the period 2020-2026 was revealed at the virtual FTTH Conference, alongside a flash update of the 2020 FTTH Market Panorama.
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.
County Broadband chief executive: Covid-19 highlights need for UK infrastructure upgrade
26 March 2020
Lloyd Felton, chief executive of internet service provider, County Broadband has issued a statement in which he outlined how the company is currently operating, and what the pandemic means for digital infrastructure.
FTTH Europe Conference 2020
With 3,300+ participants from 100+ countries, the FTTH Conference is one of the largest meeting places for broadband stakeholders.
FTTH Council Europe postpones conference until December
10 March 2020
The FTTH Council Europe has announced that it will postpone the annual FTTH Europe Conference and exhibition until early December in the wake of the current Coronavirus crisis.
Plan ahead
26 March 2019
A study released at the recent FTTH Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam proposed that anticipating FTT-5G convergence at the planning stage of a network could offer significant cost savings
Fibre contributions rewarded at FTTH Conference
21 March 2019
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS – Outstanding contributions to the acceleration of FTTH in Europe were rewarded at the FTTH Conference in Amsterdam, with Orange Spain and Dana Tobak, chief executive officer of Hyperoptic taking away prizes. In addition, Greg Mesch, chief executive officer at CityFibre picked up the inaugural Charles Kao Award.
Salisbury to be first UK city to access FTTP under Openreach ‘Fibre First’ programme
20 March 2019
Salisbury is the UK’s first entire city to access Openreach’s new fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology under the Fibre First programme.
FTTH Conference 2019: UK enters European fibre broadband rankings for first time
18 March 2019
The latest FTTH Market Panorama figures, prepared by IDate, were released at the FTTH Conference in Amsterdam.
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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
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A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
