News and BusinessRostelecom, Russia’s largest integrated digital company, has entered into a joint venture with VEB Ventures to acquire a stake in Atlas and develop a fibre-optic backbone for TEA NEXT (Transit Europe – Asia). The new line will connect Russia’s western and eastern borders with the largest cities and link to Russian borders with Mongolia and […]
News and BusinessCabo Verde Telecom (CVTelecom) and Angola Cables have signed a joint cooperation agreement to identify synergies to expand connectivity and network capabilities. The strategic partnership will also streamline closer commercial cooperation in the development of customised networking products and solutions that can be brought to market in the coming months. The SACS, WACS, MONET and […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia and CityFibre have trialled the UK’s first 25G PON network to support 5G transport. The digital campus testbed was set up at the University of Glasgow with three 5G sites backhauled to the core. In addition to carrying 5G transport on 25G PON, the same fibre ran XGS-PON to carry office traffic, thereby demonstrating […]
News and BusinessMarvell and OE Solutions have announced a collaboration to deliver the industry’s first production-ready 100G QSFP-DD optical modules optimised for 5G backhaul and Metro Access applications in early 2022. The OE Solutions modules with the Marvell® Deneb™ Coherent DSP (CDSP) will enable the transition of 10G to 100G for emerging 5G, metro and access applications. […]
News and BusinessRibbon Communications Inc. is to provide Israeli operator Bezeq, with a flexgrid 400G optical backbone network. Ribbon is upgrading Bezeq’s nation-wide network to flexgrid multi-degree DWDM. The new network leverages Ribbon’s Apollo family of optical transport and switching platforms, which features 400G ZR+ pluggable dynamic coherent optics and delivers dynamic configurability to meet growing and […]
News and BusinessInternational Network Service Provider Crosslake Fibre, says its CrossChannel submarine cable is now ready for service. CrossChannel is a high-capacity, 96 fibre pair system capable of supporting over 2,400Tbps of capacity. The 550km system has a 149km submarine segment and is designed to be physically diverse of existing fibre infrastructure. CrossChannel directly connects Equinix LD4 in […]
Technologies and ProductsHUBER+SUHNER says its new three-in-one splitter improves GPON distribution network performance by increasing fibre optic density, and the ultra-compact design also saves up to 30% of rack space for additional equipment and applications. Designed in cooperation with a Swiss telecommunications company the product combines a patch cable, breakout cable and splice cassette in one multifunctional […]
Technologies and ProductsThe SPEED-MUX 800G is claimed to be the world’s first pluggable compact 800 Gbps multiprotocol multiplexer card with pluggable CFP2 modules and AES 256 Layer 1 encryption. The card can be equipped, depending on its configuration, with up to four QSFP28 or four QSFP-DD transceivers and a direct aggregation of 100, 200 and 400 Gigabit […]
MagazineManufacturer scales up development and production capacity. Optical network component engineering firm Ensure has committed to increased research and production of its best-in-class Grade B connectors as it drives industry development and forecasts future demand. The firm offers Grade B connectors in their market-leading PLC splitters (assembled with Ensure’s in-house wafers, chips, and FA arrays) […]
MagazineExplosive broadband fibre growth and demand throughout Europe are challenging service providers to keep up. High-speed fibre will pass 197 million homes in the European Union and Britain by 2026, up from 118 million in 2021, according to a report from IDATE and FTTH Council Europe. Ambitious government high-speed fibre deployment deadlines and a shortage […]
News and BusinessA new report from LightCounting, 2021 Access Optics Report and Forecast, says that sales of PON optics will exceed US$3 billion, and sales of grey and WDM transceivers for fronthaul will account for another US$2.9 billion from 2022-2026, with the balance being for backhaul and midhaul applications. It adds that the market for optics for […]
News and BusinessEmtelle, has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract to supply FTTx infrastructure for regional UK broadband provider Upp. The contract runs until the end of March 2026. Emtelle will work closely with Upp to support the provider’s plans to deploy a full-fibre network to one million premises across the East of England.by 2025. Upp is using […]
News and BusinessEkinops has been chosen by IKOULA, French Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider of dedicated servers, outsourced cloud computing, web and cloud hosting services, to upgrade its backbone network between data centres to support the growth in customer traffic. Ekinops is delivering the PM 200FRS02 200G FlexRate™ coherent line card for IKOULA to upgrade its existing Ekinops chassis […]
News and BusinessTelecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology to maximise capacity along the Mediterranean segment of the operator’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system and Egypt’s mesh network. The MENA submarine cable is an […]
News and BusinessADVA has announced that UK operator KCOM is harnessing its FSP 3000 open optical transport technology to meet soaring data demand. The new infrastructure enables the communication and IT service provider to deliver highly reliable, ultra-fast connectivity to more residential and business customers across its Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire footprint. Using ADVA’s QuadFlex™ line card, […]
News and BusinessCityFibre, the UK’s largest independent wholesale full fibre platform, has announced the successful deployment of its first 800 Gbps backbone wavelength in partnership with network technology solutions vendor, Ciena. CityFibre says this is a key milestone on its path to building a full fibre digital infrastructure that will reach up to 8 million premises in […]
News and BusinessIt seems there is a special ‘day’ for celebrating almost anything these days and the US fibre optics industry has it’s own. UCL Swift North America (NA), a developer and manufacturer of fusion splice-on connectors, test equipment and related prep tools industry, will be celebrating National Ribbon Splicing Day on December 12, 2021. The company […]
Technologies and ProductsLumentum has expanded its multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based offerings to include high-performance 1D and 2D addressable arrays for advanced automotive, consumer and industrial LiDAR and 3D sensing applications. Lumentum says its VCSEL arrays enable a more compact, reliable, robust, and fully solid-state LiDAR solution with no moving parts. The high-power multi-junction addressable VCSEL arrays […]
News and BusinessAFL, a subsidiary of Fujikura Ltd., Japan, has officially opened its new fibre optic cable facility in Swindon, UK, marking the start of commercial production of Fujikura’s Air Blown Wrapping Tube Cable (AB-WTC) using SpiderWeb Ribbon® (SWR®) fibre technology (pictured) in the UK. AB-WTC is an ultra-high density outside plant cable designed specifically for FTTH […]
News and BusinessADVA has launched the FSP 3000 OpenFabric1200™ solution which it says will help network operators significantly reduce metro costs. The OTN-based technology enables client services to be groomed into 400Gbps wavelengths, maximising fibre capacity and supporting cost-efficient coherent networks. The latest member of the FSP 3000 OpenFabric™ Series combines open 400Gbps pluggable coherent technology with […]