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First aluminium conductor for subsea optical cable

By John Williamson

Alcatel Submarine Networks and Facebook innovation aims at lower cost submarine systems Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has announced the commercial availability of aluminium conductor cable for optical fibre submarine systems. This follows an extensive testing and qualification programme to demonstrate aluminium’s suitability for ultra-long haul deep sea transmission systems. The programme included mechanical, electrical, optical […]

Technologies and Products

Telstra taps Infinera for major network services upgrade in Asia Pacific

By Peter Dykes

Telstra and Infinera have announced a major boost to Telstra’s network services for customers in Asia Pacific, with a significant increase in fibre capacity to its subsea infrastructure using Infinera’s Infinite Capacity Engine 4 (ICE4). As part of an ongoing partnership, Infinera’s fourth-generation ICE4 optical engine is being rolled out across Telstra’s Asia Pacific subsea […]

Applications and Research

TIC-TOC technology moves Tactile Internet a step closer to reality

By Matthew Peach

Researchers in South Korea have developed rapid information processing technologies in anticipation of the next generation of the Internet. Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea have developed technology capable of sending packets of digital information at 25 Gbps – 10 times faster than currently available speeds. They say that […]

Technologies and Products

Silicon Line presents first active optical cables to support HDMI 2.1 at CES 2019

By Matthew Peach

At the 2019 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in January, Silicon Line, a developer of optical link technology for consumer, commercial and industrial electronics, demonstrated the world’s first active optical cables with embedded technology supporting all features of the recently released HDMI 2.1 specification. Show visitors were able to view the demonstration, involving […]

Technologies and Products

Australia-Japan Cable completes major upgrade to submarine cable system with Infinera subsea solution

By Matthew Peach

Infinera, a developer of intelligent transport networks, has announced the completion of a major upgrade to Australia-Japan Cable’s (AJC) submarine cable system, which connects Australia, Guam and Japan. AJC has been able to triple lit capacity on this 12,700-kilometer subsea cable system by upgrading the Infinera DTN-X network with Infinera’s fourth generation optical engine ICE4. […]

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Gigaclear upgrades rural fibre network with Ciena

By Antony Savvas

Gigaclear Networks, the UK provider of full-fibre broadband connectivity to rural communities, has deployed a 100G transport network across multiple countryside locations powered by optical and intelligent software solutions from Ciena. Gigaclear’s network is being deployed across 22 English counties and currently covers over 65,000 homes and businesses, delivering fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) symmetrical, gigabit (1Gbps) connectivity […]