L-R – Alexander Fitzgerald, CEO, Cuckoo; Jarlath Finnegan, CEO, Giganet; Tommy Toner, Co-Founder, VP Product and Brand; Dan McClure, Co-Founder, VP Technology
The move is part of the providers’ missions to deliver faster, future-proof broadband across the UK.
Fareham College in the UK has partnered with ISP, Giganet to train, upskill and develop the next generation of fibre installation engineers.
This webinar focuses on how the telecoms sector is addressing the skills issue, looking at the accredited training available and how apprenticeship schemes are valuable to operators, installers and ISPs.
The telecommunication workforce of the future will require employees skilled in fibre networks to move forward and keep pace with emerging technologies.
UK ISP, Giganet has opened a full fibre training centre in Whiteley, Hampshire.
UK network provider, Openreach is to create and fill more than 4,000 jobs during 2022, including around 3,000 apprenticeships, as part of an investment drive in its network, people and training.
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Lumentum has awarded its first diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIB) scholarships to 16 applicants from its 2021 internship program.
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Ciena and not-for-profit organisation, Academy Achievers are collaborating to help close the digital and educational gap among students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers.
In the UK, ECS cards are designed to prove qualification status, main electrical occupation, identity, health and safety awareness, as well as any additional disciplines in which an operative is skilled to work.
The IEEE Photonics Society and the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) have entered into an agreement to promote joint activities, cross-disciplinary technical dissemination and cooperative programs between membership bodies.
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A look at some of the challenges faced by submarine network operators, and the ways in which they can maximise performance, whatever their cable system
A look at the market for access equipment and some of the products and solutions available
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Abigail Williams offers a market update on fibre network deployments in the Middle East And North Africa (MENA) region
Zeusconnects Lowestoft in the UK to Zandvoort in the Netherlands (credit: Zayo)
Can subsea cables cope with a world in flux? Alice Jensen finds out
Richard Thorpe, chief delivery officer at CityFibre
Richard Thorpe advises how a partnership approach can ease the procurement process for altnets.
According to Liam Taylor, the answer lies in the detail
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Railway networks not only make for great people and freight transport networks, they also make for great optical transport networks. Jonathan Homa explains what the railway industry needs to consider when building out optical transport links.
