News and BusinessMoCA®, (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) and the Broadband Forum, have partnered to offer PON fibre network providers and service operators a low-cost fibre access extension standard using existing coaxial cabling and Fibre to the Extension Point (FTTep) architecture. The technology has been pioneered largely by Sweden-based InCoax, which has seen its In:xtnd product gain traction […]
News and BusinessSubmarine fibre optic telecommunications consulting and project management company Pioneer Consulting, has been awarded the shipboard representation contract for Southern Cross NEXT, the in-progress 13,494 km trans-Pacific submarine cable system connecting Sydney, Auckland, and Los Angeles, with branches linking Fiji, Tokelau, and Kiribati. As shipboard representatives, Pioneer Consulting experts will supervise cable loading, freighter transfer, […]
Applications and ResearchResearchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibres that is around 10,000 times lower than conventional optical fibres. The discovery, published in The Optical Society’s flagship Optica journal, highlights yet another optical property in which hollow-core fibres are capable of outperforming […]
Technologies and ProductsUK-based Arden Photonics has extended its range of fibre coating measurement products with the launch of the FGC-P Fibre Coating Geometry system, a fully automated system for directly measuring the geometry of optical fibre coatings. Able to measure fibres with coating diameters from 100 µm to 260 µm, Arden says the system is ideal for […]
News and BusinessThe sale of Coherent Inc is beginning to take on the appearance of an auction after II-VI made an offer of US$130 per share, capping previous offers by MKS Instruments and Lumentum. Coherent’s expertise in photonics in lasers, microelectronics, precision manufacturing and instrumentation, along with its footprint in aerospace and defence markets are obviously hot […]
Proof, were it needed that inadequate broadband is creating social and domestic tensions, was provided by a survey of UK parents in early February 2021. The survey of 2,000 parents, commissioned by Bath, UK-based full fibre infrastructure provider Truespeed, revealed that three quarters of parents have argued over broadband as they attempt to work from […]
News and BusinessAustralia looks set to get a 20,000km hyperscale national backbone which will support industries such as cloud computing, data centres, environmental sciences, space vehicle launch, aerospace, satellite, defence as well as provide transmission to local distribution networks such as the National Broadband Network and mobile operators. Dubbed HyperOne, the network is the vision of serial tech […]
News and BusinessCiena has won two major subsea infrastructure contracts. Ciena will supply its 6500 Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE) powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics for the new 13,494 km Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable in the Pacific. The vendor will also be supplying its SLTE equipoment to Bulk Fiber Networks, which is enhancing its […]