Technologies and ProductsAdtran, a provider of next-generation networking solutions, is unlocking closed, single-vendor access networks to bring FTTx into line with the open, standards based approach common across all other broadband media. Adtran showed its commitment to openness with its range of products, interfaces and interoperability demos showcased on its Broadband World Forum booth, in London, last […]
Editors PicksDigital Realty Trust, San Francisco, Ca, US, a data centre solutions developer, is partnering with Aqua Comms Limited, Dublin, Ireland, a provider of scalable, subsea network solutions, to deploy its new transatlantic fibre optic system known as America Europe Connect. AEConnect offers a diverse trans-Atlantic route spanning the more than 5,400 km between New York […]
News and BusinessGlobal systems developer commits to investing an additional $100m in France As part of the partnership agreement with the French government signed in February 2015, Cisco committed to accelerating the digital transformation of France through a series of investments totaling more than $100m. This involved training individuals for the new digital economy, investing in […]
News and BusinessHuawei announced its Gigaband development strategy at the Ultra-Broadband Forum 2015 in early September. The strategy represents Huawei’s commitment to opening ROADS (Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social) to build a better connected world by working with industry players and driving the ultra-broadband industry into the Gigaband era. The global ultra-broadband industry will enter […]
News and BusinessThe vendor landscape is highly fragmented with over twenty equipment manufacturers actively selling WDM Metro equipment. In the quarter, only three vendors Ciena, Huawei, and ZTE grabbed more than 10 percent share of the market each, and held a combined market share of 50 percent. Demand for WDM equipment in metro applications is reaching new […]
News and BusinessThe US government has set up its latest manufacturing initiative, the sixth of nine, to advance photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The $610 million (€544 million) venture is a combination of public and private funding, $110 million (€98 million) from the Department of Defense, $250 million (€223 million) from the state of New York, and a similar amount […]
Technologies and ProductsTwelve companies are developing a next-generation Quad Small-Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) module. Dubbed the Micro QSFP (μQSFP), the multi-source agreement (MSA) will improve by a third the port count on a platform’s face plate compared to the QSFP. “There is always a quest for greater port density or aggregate bandwidth,” says Nathan Tracy, technologist at TE […]
News and BusinessAccording to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide Broadband Access market, including PON, DSL and Cable, is expected to achieve revenues of almost $12 billion by 2019, with the PON market accounting for half of the total Broadband Access market revenues. “We expect continued growth from both the Cable and PON markets […]
Editors PicksVodafone is conducting what is claimed to be Europe’s first field trial of a time- and wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM-PON) using equipment from Alcatel-Lucent. TWDM-PON is the next-generation access scheme after 10 Gigabit GPON (XG-PON1) and 10 Gigabit EPON. The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group and ITU are completing the standard that supports up to […]
Technologies and ProductsTraditional optics can achieve the economic benefits common to silicon photonics with its use of equipment, processes and fabrication plants paid for by the chip industry. So argues Valery Tolstikhin, head of design consultancy Intengent and former founder and CTO of Canadian start-up OneChip Photonics. Tolstikhin says the rise of silicon photonics has sparked a […]
News and BusinessThe worldwide value of FSO link devices in stationary non-military/aerospace outdoor links was $37.2m in 2014, according to a new survey published by market analyst ElectroniCast, which is based in Aptos, Ca, USA. The global consumption of fixed-location (stationary) transmitter/receiver links used in non-military/aerospace FSO system equipment was $37.2m in 2014, up 11% from $33.5m […]
News and BusinessAccording to a new forecast report by Ovum, FTTx optics will reach a new record level in 2015, following a record-breaking 2014. The report forecasts that FTTx optical components revenue will exceed $1bn this year, up from $953m in 2014. Next year will remain strong, with forecast revenue of $985m. Demand for PON equipment – […]
News and BusinessIn a newly released Optical Transport forecast report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries, wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) equipment demand is expected to drive the Optical Transport market to $15 billion by 2019. “The network still needs a lot of raw bandwidth and […]
News and BusinessTelecommunications Minister Boutros Harb has unveiled a five-year plan to revamp Lebanon’s telecoms infrastructure, assuring that Internet users across the country would enjoy fiber-optic connectivity by the year 2020. “Fiber optic networks will be installed in Lebanon progressively over five years and the country will be totally connected through this technology by the year 2020,” […]
News and BusinessIn a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the Optical Transport equipment market reached $2.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015. The majority of the optical market’s growth was due to the continuous need for more wavelength division multiplexers (WDM). In the quarter, the total WDM market, which comprises 76 percent of the optical […]
News and BusinessFibre to the home broadband connections in Spain has shown a steady growth for the past many years and now the telecom regulator CNMC (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia) reports that the number of FTTH connections in the country grew to 1.81 million at the end of February 2015. There is a […]
Technologies and ProductsADVA Optical Networking has unveiled its FSP 3000 CloudConnect, a data centre interconnect product designed to cater for the differing needs of the data centre players and to scale to 100 terabit. The FSP 3000 CloudConnect comes in several configurations, with all the platforms using the QuadFlex card that has a 800 gigabit throughput: up […]
Technologies and ProductsTransmode, a global supplier of packet optical networking solutions, has announced the availability of the latest member of its EMXP IIe family, the EMXP IIe 240, which offers high density and low power 10G-based Ethernet switching for Metro-Edge P-OTS applications. The Swedish headquartered company has been at the forefront of the industry’s rapid migration to […]
Technologies and ProductsResearchers at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, UK, have successfully manufactured a record 11km of a special type of optical fibre; hollow core photonic bandgap fibre (HC-PBGF), a type of fibre that until now had only been made in lengths limited to hundreds of meters. The fibre, which supports >200nm bandwidth with a longitudinally uniform loss of approximately […]
News and BusinessImprovement driven by GPON, VDSL technologies taking hold The global broadband aggregation equipment market, including DSL, PON and Ethernet FTTH, totaled $2.1 billion in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a 5% sequential drop, but a 14% gain year-over-year, driven by GPON and VDSL deployments, according to a new report from IHS Infonetics. Jeff Heynen, […]