News and BusinessLiquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. The new route, including a fibre link across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources, […]
News and BusinessGreat Plains Communications (GPC), a Midwestern U.S. telecommunications provider which operates a 16,500+ mile fibre network covering 13 states, is deploying Ciena’s Coherent Routing solution and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) technology. Ciena says the deployment will increase GPC’s network capacity, reliability, and resiliency to adapt to the continually increasing bandwidth needs of business, carrier, and […]
Technologies and ProductsNetherlands-based chemicals firm SABIC, has collaborated with China’s Blovelight, Ltd., to develop what it claims is one of the first integrated, single-mode fibre optic lens arrays for WDM modules. The design uses SABIC’s ULTEM™ resin, a near-infrared transparent, high-heat polyetherimide (PEI) material, to mould an integrated connector (previously metal) and receiving lens array (previously glass) and […]
News and BusinessAustralian fibre and network solutions provider Vocus, has completed the first international fibre-optic cable connection into Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory. The company says the new AU$100 million submarine fibre cable will position Darwin as a key digital hub for the Asia Pacific region, and will be connected to a new data centre to be […]
Technologies and ProductsEXFO has launched two new test sets for testing high-volume fibres in optical networks, delivering what the company claims is the fastest multi-fibre push-on (MPO) certification capability in the industry. Apart from the new PXM and LXM optical loss test set (OLTS) which support multimode fibres, EXFO has added new certification features to its current […]
News and BusinessInfinera says it has successfully completed the industry’s first testing of point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceiver technology in Japan in collaboration with Sumitomo Electric. The testing showcased multiple optical transmission demonstrations and the role that XR optics technology can play in helping network operators in Japan cost-effectively keep pace with relentless bandwidth growth driven by 5G, […]
News and BusinessInfinera says it has successfully completed a simulated intercity network trial for Telstra InfraCo’s intercity fibre project in Australia, delivering 61.3 Tbps of unregenerated data transmission capacity on a fibre pair over the equivalent of 1,240 route kilometers between Melbourne and Sydney. The network trial was implemented using Infinera’s 800G-capable ICE6 coherent solution and Corning […]
Technologies and ProductsSticklers™ is launching its Pro 360™ Touchless Cleaner at AngaCom. The device uses a non-flammable cleaning fluid classified as non-hazardous and is non-regulated for transport by sea, ground and air. Packaged in spill proof cannisters to guarantee solvent purity, each canister cleans over 2000 connectors. The cleaning fluid cartridge contains less than 100ml of fluid […]