Pictured: Lord Mayor Thomas Eiskirch; Srini Gopalan, member of the board of management of Deutsche Telekom AG and spokesman for the management of Telekom Deutschland; Patrick Helmes, managing director of Glasfaser Ruhr and Christian Graumann, managing director of Glasfaser Ruhr
Deutsche Telekom and Glasfaser Ruhr have agreed on large-scale cooperative FTTH expansion in the German city of Bochum.
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UK alternative network provider, CityFibre has confirmed a debt package totalling £4.9bn.
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Keely Portway highlights some of the key developments from the first physical FTTH Conference in two years
Fareham College in the UK has partnered with ISP, Giganet to train, upskill and develop the next generation of fibre installation engineers.
Service providers aiming to accelerate fibre deployment to provide competitive connected experiences and prepare for capacity expansion are facing new challenges.
Read this white paper to learn: How service providers can significantly reduce the variety and volume of products they need to stock; how to optimise time to market through reduced product delivery times and the ability to quickly configure the solutions they need and how the modular FTTH system helps technicians to train faster and improve the quality and success of the installation
As we look ahead to a year less impacted by the pandemic, we foresee six areas to be integral to the growth of this sector.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries saw high-speed fibre subscriptions grow by 15 per cent from June 2020 to June 2021.
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Keely Portway rounds-up some of the industry's responses to the government’s connectivity mission in the recent Levelling Up white paper
UK operator Openreach has announced a further 98 exchanges where it plans to stop selling legacy analogue services in favour of fibre.
Some of the hottest topics from the OFC conference in San Diego
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What are the top trends, challenges and technologies driving data centre networks in 2023 and beyond?
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How North and Latin America are faring when it comes to fibre deployment
We round up the latest high-capacity optics for coherent optical transmission in 2023.
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The optical technology and techniques that terrestrial network operators need to consider to achieve high-performance in challenging conditions
Nesa Scopic advises on the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) fire safety standards for fibre cables, and how to choose the optimal cabling for the correct setting
Mattias Fridström offers his take on the telecoms topics that are going to matter in the next 12 months
Teresa Monteiro, director solution marketing, network software and automation, Infinera
Teresa Monteiro reveals why there is more to open networking than physical device interoperability
