fibre connectivity

Technologies and Products

Legrand ships Infinium acclAIM™ fibre connector

By Peter Dykes

Electrical and digital building infrastructure specialist Legrand, has announced the availability of its Infinium acclAIM Fiber Solution. The company says the Infinium acclAIM replaces pre-terminated cassette-based solutions with direct mating breakout connections, eliminating extra components and cost, while delivering the lowest insertion loss available on the market. Legrand says that continually increasing bandwidth is forcing […]

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CommScope launches range of hardened connectors

By Peter Dykes

CommScope has launched  Prodigy™, a range of hardened connectors designed to accelerate and simplify field installation for fibre networks. The Prodigy system utilises universal, small-form hardened connectors for interoperability across different fibre terminals and cable assemblies. The compact footprint enables smaller, higher-density terminal footprints, while the self-aligning connectors minimise the chance of connection errors. To […]

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Telia Carrier, WorldStream and PhoenixNAP all add new fibre connectivity points-of-presence in the Milan region.

By Antony Savvas

Telia Carrier, WorldStream and PhoenixNAP have all added new fibre connectivity points-of-presence in the Milan region. In Telias Carrier’s case, it has announced a new Cloud Connect PoP in the SUPERNAP Italia data centre near Milan (pictured). Telia’s Cloud Connect service enables customers to connect directly to cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, […]

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OFC: Sterlite Tech re-engineers ribbon cable

By John Williamson

Sterlite Tech has launched TruRibbon™ – Ribbon Reinvented, a fully backward compatible ribbon cable that offers the high density needed by today’s networks, with superior handling design to enable a first-time-right installation. Sterlite Tech places the new product in the context of continually expanding data capacity requirements, with service providers, hyper-scale datacentres and others looking […]