News and BusinessIndustry analyst Lightcounting’s latest Market Forecast Report says the optical transceiver market will be down by around 1% in 2023 due to declines in the sales of Ethernet and wireless fronthaul transceivers of 10% and 30% respectively, offsetting the growth in all other market segments in 2023. It says Amazon and other cloud companies plan […]
News and BusinessA new report from Persistence Market Research predicts the global market for nanophotonics is set to garner US$200 billion by 2033 from US$25 billion in 2023, expanding at 23.1% CAGR from 2023 to 2033. Regionally, the report finds that Asia Pacific is dominating the globally with a 47% share, and is estimated to continue during […]
Technologies and ProductsPOET Technologies Inc. has launched POET Starlight TM, a packaged light source solution for AI applications. POET has also entered into an agreement with Celestial AI, creators of the Photonic Fabric TM, for development and production of POET Starlight packaged light sources and has received an advanced purchase order for initial production units. POET’s Starlight […]
Technologies and ProductsS&T Iskratel has unveiled its Innbox X24 (pictured), a multi-gigabit XGS-PON ONT that offers symmetrical upstream and downstream data rates of 10 Gbps. At the same time, the company also launched the Iskratel Innbox M92, an EasyMesh™ compliant mesh Wi-Fi 6 access point that extends the availability of bandwidth-consuming services over the air with multi-gigabit […]
News and BusinessAccording to the Market Panorama released by the FTTH Council Europe at the recent FTTH Conference, as of September 2022, FTTH/B coverage (i.e. premises passed) in the 27 EU countries (including the UK) was up 6.8% year-on-year, giving a total of 55.3% of premises passed. For the EU 39 countries (including UK) the figures were […]
Technologies and ProductsSTL has developed its slimmest fibre yet, a 180 micron optical fibre. This fibre enables the smallest diameters in cables with the highest fibre densities. STL showcased a next-generation microcable with 288 fibres capable of being deployed in 8 mm ducts and says is amongst the first companies globally and the first in India to […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has launched its second ‘pizza-box’ form OLT. The Quillion-powered Lightspan DF-32GM (pictured) extends Nokia’s OLT portfolio for multi-gig deployments in low density areas. The DF-32 is available immediately for global shipments to communication service providers and cable operators. DF-32 will fit into Nokia’s existing multi-gig portfolio which ranges from the very small size unit, […]
News and BusinessGlobal cable operator Sparkle, has announced the deployment of state-of-the-art technologies, supplied by Infinera and Nokia, on its global optical terrestrial and subsea networks to further enhance its offering and meet the surging market demand worldwide. The new technology will initially be deployed between 23 major Points of Presence (PoPs) in Europe over 12,465 km, […]
News and BusinessNokia is deploying a 10G broadband network for Finnish operator Valoo. The deal includes fibre access nodes for the central office and Nokia’s Altiplano broadband access controller, which includes software defined access networking (SDAN) capabilities. The new network will connect 200,000 homes in and around 30 cities by the end of 2026. With Nokia’s Quillion […]
Technologies and ProductsTest, monitoring and analytics company EXFO, has announced its new D-Series of OTDR solutions (pictured), along with advanced field-testing tools that deliver accurate measurements to characterise and validate fibre links. These tools support critical fibre deployments and network operations in FTTH and RAN Mobile networks, and data centres. The D-Series combines several advanced features within […]
Technologies and ProductsCiena has introduced WaveRouter, (pictured) which it claims is an industry-first platform architecture, optimally designed for the converged metro network. As part of Ciena’s Coherent Routing strategy, WaveRouter supports the exponential growth of metro traffic driven by bandwidth-hungry services such as 5G, high-speed broadband, enterprise business services, and the cloud. Seamlessly unifying IP, optical, and […]
Technologies and ProductsFujikura Europe has launched the CT11x series of fibre optic cleavers with key upgrades for improved cleaving quality and usability for engineers and researchers. The new line-up of specialist cleavers comprises the CT114, CT115, and CT116. All three models enable accurate cleaving of large diameter optical fibres, which are typically used for applications including laser […]
Technologies and ProductsS&T Iskratel has released two new multi-terabit Optical Line Terminals. The company says the Iskratel Lumia T6 (pictured) offers 1.4 Tbps uplink capacity making it the world’s fastest shelf-based PON OLT. It also allows for a seamless technology upgrade in the same chassis when new PON generations are available. With 800 Gbps per subscriber blade […]
Technical FeaturesSDN (Software Defined Networking) is not a new concept, but how to apply it to optical networks? As part of its work in the disaggregation of both fixed and mobile networks, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has come up with SEBA, a lightweight platform which supports a multitude of virtualised access technologies at […]
News and BusinessIn its first project under the umbrella of the Co-packaging Framework Document, the OIF has launched an industry-first, the OIF-Co-Packaging-3.2T-Module-01.0 – Implementation Agreement (IA) for a 3.2Tbps Co-Packaged (CPO) Module defines a 3.2T co-packaged module that targets Ethernet switching applications utilising 100G electrical lanes and provides backward compatibility with 50G lanes. The module definition can […]
Technical FeaturesMaking fibre optic communications sustainable is vital to reducing the industry’s contribution to the reduction of global carbon emissions. The opportunities for carbon reduction across the industry are myriad, including supply chain management to component development and the switch to renewable energy, to name but a few. Peter Dykes looks at three examples of […]
News and BusinessNokia and OpenColo have successfully completed the first commercial field trial to transport a 1.6 Tbps traffic flow over an 800GE link aggregation group with 800GE FR4 optics. The initial trial included the Nokia 7750 SR-1se router equipped with FP5 silicon (pictured) to enable 800GE interfaces, and the Nokia 1830 PSI compact modular optical transport platform […]
Technologies and ProductsReichle & De-Massari (R&M), is launching solutions for cabling that mobile operators and tower companies need for the fibre-optic and electrical connection of 5G and 4G radio units. The CONEXIO range is designed to set up infrastructures for Fibre to the Antenna (FTTA) and Power to the Antenna (PTTA). The range includes site-specific cable systems […]
News and BusinessEuropean bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks has partnered with Crosslake Fibre UK a developer of subsea and terrestrial fibre networks, to give euNetworks exclusive rights to deliver services between the United Kingdom and Madrid on Crosslake’s CrossChannel Fibre system for the financial services community. euNetworks has also agreed to enable the sale of dark fibre services […]
News and BusinessGlobal infrastructure company Colt, has more than doubled its IQ network capacity with Ciena’s 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics. The upgrade also includes Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller. Ciena says that with the its 6500 RLS (pictured), Colt can […]