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.
Training and Education
New year, new qualification structure for UK network infrastructure
15 December 2020
From 1 January, the UK network infrastructure industry’s new occupational qualification structure will come into effect.
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.
UK fibre roll-out programme to boost 10,000 jobs amidst covid recovery
15 June 2020
Alternative network provider, CityFibre has committed to a three-year recruitment and training programme to provide up to 10,000 jobs upgrading the UK’s digital infrastructure to full fibre.
On the house for staying at home
7 April 2020
Five free online courses for fibre professionals to access during the covid-19 lockdown.
SCTE postpones events, brings forward anniversary gift for members
27 March 2020
Anthony Basham, president of the Society for Broadband Professionals (SCTE) has written to members, advising that all events are postponed until further notice.
Cabling Science Institute offers free online training to global cable and wireless community
26 March 2020
Specialist training organisation, Cabling Science Institute is offering all of its online training courses free of charge to help support the optical communications industry during this difficult time.
An optical step ahead
18 November 2019
Steve Harris looks ahead to the next 12 months and the impact that the latest technology may have on training for those on the front line
Standard practice
19 July 2019
The right combination of training and tools will help to future-proof fibre reliability, says Jay Tourigny
Openreach recruits 3,000 apprentice engineers for fibre build
28 January 2019
Openreach is to recruit 3,000 new trainees over the next 12 months to support its ‘full fibre’ broadband build plans.
Pages
Events
Latest issue
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
