Sri Lanka Telecom to deploy next generation FTTH network
17 July 2020
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is set to deploy a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network.
FTTH
Rural Ukraine to benefit from new fibre network
23 April 2020
A new fibre-optic network is set to bridge the digital divide in the Ukraine, connecting 200 towns and villages.
Collaboration creates expanded connectivity offering
23 April 2020
Emtelle has collaborated with CommScope to further expand its fibre connectivity portfolio.
Uncharted territory
19 March 2020
Niall Looney summarises his business experience to date in dealing with the current Covid-19 pandemic, from a network design consultancy’s point-of-view
Bethells Beach, New Zealand
$270m investment to provide high-speed broadband access to 99 per cent of New Zealanders
19 February 2020
New Zealand’s National Government has pledged $270m further investment to fast-track the roll-out of ultra-fast broadband.
Playing a big part
23 January 2020
Jay Tourigny discusses the challenges of cleaning high-density fibre connections in giant data centres and how they can be overcome
Emtelle expands with new fibre termination facility
16 January 2020
Emtelle has opened a new fibre termination facility to help continually meet the growing appetite for pre-connectorised fibre solutions.
Spectranet chooses Nokia to aid Nigeria fibre roll-out
12 November 2019
Nigerian internet service provider (ISP), Spectranet has chosen Nokia to help bring high-speed access to customers in Lagos and Abuja.
Prysmian selected for 10G project in Australia
6 November 2019
TPG Telecom has chosen to partner with Prysmian Group for the ‘10 Gigabit Adelaide’ project in Australia.
Nokia, Etisalat complete successful single-carrier terabit-per-second field trial
7 October 2019
Nokia, in partnership with UAE provider Etisalat, has successfully completed a field trial of single-carrier terabit-per-second data transmission on a deployed fibre network.
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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
