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.
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Cardiff ISP expands senior team
2 February 2021
Spectrum, the Cardiff based broadband service provider, is continuing to expand its executive team with the appointments of Justin Leese as chief technical operations officer and Steve Cooper as chief delivery officer.
More than 5,000 UK jobs created for fibre network build
5 January 2021
Openreach, the access network division of BT Group, is creating 5,300 UK-based engineering jobs, to be filled this year.
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Investment awarded for full-fibre delivery to 150,000 Welsh premises
28 October 2020
Welsh service provider Spectrum has been awarded a landmark investment from Infracapital to build full fibre broadband infrastructure across south Wales.
DZS reveals new senior leadership team
19 August 2020
DZS has announced the consolidation of its acquired brands under DZS and its new senior leadership team and organizational structure designed to accelerate globalization of its groundbreaking innovations.
Gigaclear on engineer recruitment drive for fibre expansion
14 August 2020
UK rural broadband provider, Gigaclear is looking to recruit 120 new, full-time field engineers by the end of March next year, to help build network capacity.
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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
