UK north and south-west regions fuelled by fibre funding
11 March 2021
Blackpool in the UK’s north-west is to receive investment of £60m as part of independent provider, CityFibre’s plans to upgrade legacy networks with full-fibre.
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France reports record fibre figures
10 March 2021
The French Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Post (Arcep) has released its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market in France as of the end of December 2020.
Former UK Minister of State appointed as special advisor by independent ISP
4 March 2021
London ISP Community Fibre has announced the appointment of Lord Barwell to the board as a special advisor.
Indigo Telecom Group eyes international expansion with CEO appointment
4 March 2021
Indigo Telecom Group, a global provider of telecom and data centre network support services, has announced the appointment of Ian Duggan as CEO effective immediately.
Coherent subcarrier aggregation technology trialled in UK fibre roll-out
3 March 2021
UK cable operator Virgin Media has trialled network technology that provides new ways to roll out multi-gigabit speeds.
Radius expands Northern Ireland footprint with Rainbow acquisition
3 March 2021
Radius Payment Solutions has acquired Belfast-based independent operator, Rainbow Communications.
Test partner selected for UK fibre roll-out
2 March 2021
UK digital infrastructure provider, Openreach has selected the optical network monitoring system (ONMSi) from Viavi Solutions to accelerate its full-fibre broadband deployment across the country.
£30m partnership brings full-fibre to Liverpool City
25 February 2021
The UK’s Liverpool City region is to benefit from a full-fibre, gigabit-capable network following the announcement by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram of a £30m partnership.
400+ UK apprenticeship, graduate and intern roles created
11 February 2021
UK cable operator Virgin Media is to hire more than 400 new employees in graduate, intern and apprenticeship roles this year.
UK housebuilder commits to fibre broadband on new developments
26 January 2021
British housebuilder, Barratt Developments has committed to ensuring that the majority of new sites built every year will have access to a full-fibre broadband service from multiple networks, with 18 ISPs to choose from.
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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
