News and BusinessSweden’s Hexatronic Group has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares in the UK-based fibre optic company Tech Optics Limited. Tech Optics is a fibre optic products supplier and cable assembly manufacturer, which was established in 1988. The company specialises in applications within harsh environments, for example defence, aerospace, oil and gas industry. Tech […]
Technologies and ProductsChip vendor Semtech Corporation has announced production availability of GN2558 and GN2559, its Tri-Edge™ CDR SR solutions to enable next-generation data centre multi-mode interconnectivity. The GN2558 is a quad PAM4 CDR with an integrated VCSEL driver, and the GN2559 is a quad PAM4 CDR with an integrated linear transimpedance amplifier (TIA). “Semtech has successfully demonstrated […]
News and BusinessService provider Sure, which operates a network on the English Channel Island of Guernsey, has awarded a contract to telent for the upgrade of its network. The major upgrade will see telent replace Sure’s existing 10G core network with a 100G Juniper Networks core network. This will allow Sure to deliver faster, more reliable internet […]
News and BusinessEkinops has won its first major 10Gbps access win in Europe with a seven-figure contract from an unnamed CSP. A European Tier 1 service provider has used Ekinops 10G routers to build an entire communication infrastructure for a major national security agency. The Ekinops solutions, installed in various data centres across the country, will manage […]
News and BusinessThe Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Consortium (AAE-1), one of the largest consortium cable systems in the world, has recently completed a significant upgrade with Infinera to boost capacity on its subsea network connecting East Asia to Europe via Egypt. AAE-1 has proved to be vital infrastructure in the Eurasia corridor which includes the European, Asian, and Middle Eastern […]
News and BusinessNokia today announced that Openreach will deploy its fibre solutions to help meet its target of bringing ultra-fast and reliable broadband access to 20 million homes across the UK by the mid-to-late 2020s. The fibre rollout with Nokia underpins Openreach’s commitment to build a world-class, secure broadband network that can deliver differentiated customer experiences and […]
Technologies and ProductsFOLAN has launched a new range of pivoting optical patch panels, designed entirely in plastic and dedicated to FTTH deployment. Designed to guarantee quick and easy installation, the plastic patch panels are equipped with a pre-positioning system and a clip for fixing the patch panel without cage nuts in less than 40 seconds. The design […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has launched its WaveFabric Elements portfolio of photonic chips, devices and subsystems, including its fifth-generation coherent digital signal processor family, the Photonic Service Engine V (PSE-V). WaveFabric Elements portfolio combines digital signal processing (DSP) and optics technologies focused on emerging end-to-end 400G applications, allowing the company to optimise the entire electro-optic engine that powers […]
News and BusinessSunrise and Salt have announced plans to create an FTTH platform for ultrafast broadband connectivity services on an open access basis across Switzerland. The roll-out will be realised through Swiss Open Fibre, a joint venture which will be established and co-owned by Salt and Sunrise with equal shareholding and a prospective equity partner. Swiss Open […]
News and BusinessHexatronic UK Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexatronic Group AB, has signed a strategic supply agreement with communications provider KCOM Group Ltd., to supply passive fibre optic solutions including fibre optic cables, micro duct and connectivity products, all parts of Hexatronic’s Matrix system. The equipment will be used by KCOM as the company expands […]
News and BusinessChina Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC are to partner to build 2Africa, the most comprehensive subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region. At 37,000km, 2Africa will be one of the world’s largest subsea cable projects and will interconnect Europe (eastward via Egypt), the Middle […]
News and BusinessBT spinoff Openreach has selected ADTRAN’s SDX Series of OLTs and Mosaic Cloud Platform as part of its project to pass 20 million UK homes and businesses by the mid-to-late 2020s with its full fibre network. Peter Bell, Network Technologies Director, Openreach said: “We’re already making our new ultrafast, ultra-reliable broadband network available to around […]
News and BusinessCiena has announced contract wins with Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier, the international wholesale unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), and Telia Carrier in the US. The contract with Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier sees the first European 800G network going live, connecting data centres in Vienna, Austria. Ciena will supply its WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) to satisfy […]
News and BusinessECOC 2020 expo, the fibre optic industry’s premier event, has been rescheduled to take place between 7th – 9th December, with the Conference running from 6th – 10th December, due to the Corvid-19 pandemic. Apart from continuing to offer a unique and high-level platform to present and exhibit research results and products and the ever-popular […]
News and BusinessAccording to BT’s chief executive Philip Jansen, the UK incumbent operator is stepping up it’s efforts to roll out FTTP, aiming to reach 20 million homes by the middle of the decade, as long as everything goes to plan. Jansen said in a statement, “BT has the best network infrastructure in the UK. We have […]
News and BusinessFollowing the announcement Sweden-based InCoax is to trial its In:xtnd fibre extension product, based on the MoCA (Multimedia over Coaxial Access) 2.5 platform, with an unnamed US fibre network operator, the company has signed value-added reseller agreements with companies in the United States and Canada. Given the long history of cable television and telecoms in […]
News and BusinessUK connectivity provider Enterprise Telecoms, has been awarded a £10.5 million full fibre project by Aberdeenshire Council, spanning up to 200km, with the aim of improving the delivery of public services to the community and boosting economic activity and quality of life in the area. This latest collaboration is a continuation of a 20-year-old partnership […]
Technologies and ProductsFujitsu Network Communications has launched what it claims is the industry’s first multi-vendor network design and planning tool for Open ROADM networks. The FUJITSU Network Virtuora® PD, an SDN-based application, optimises and simplifies planning, design, and testing of optical networks that conform to Open ROADM specifications. The company also announced that Virtuora PD has been […]
News and BusinessIskratel, is to provide active and passive telecommunications equipment for the construction of an ultra-fast fibre-optic (XGS-PON and GPON) broadband network in 210 municipalities as part of the RUNE (Rural Network) project, with its partners Rune Enia in Slovenia and Rune Crow in Croatia. As part of the three-year project, 233,000 households in 165 Slovenian […]
News and BusinessM-net has selected the ADTRAN Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) portfolio for its FTTB products, and Mosaic™ Cloud Platform to help accelerate the introduction of gigabit services to its residential and business customers. M-net is leveraging ADTRAN’s second-generation Gfast technology to expand its fibre broadband network coverage by using the existing wiring in buildings within its footprint. […]