Guest BlogThe beginning of a new year may bring with it resolutions to live a healthier lifestyle, to spend more time with family or to take up a new hobby. For our industry, the resolution may be that 2020 is the year that 400G moves out of the lab and into mass production! ProLabs has been […]
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Technologies and ProductsHybrid photonic IC-based module and subsystem specialist NeoPhotonics Corp has shipped its new 400G-capable ClearLight™ CFP2-DCO transceiver for end-customer trials. The device is billed as the industry’s first transceiver module able to deliver as much as 32 Tbps of capacity per fibre – significantly higher than today’s 200G CFP2-DCO capacity, or the emerging 400G CFP2-DCO […]
News and BusinessGerman cartel authority the Bundeskartellamt has decided to approve the JV plans of Deutsche Telekom and EWE AG to expand fibre optic networks to end-customers in the northwestern region of the country. The JV – Glasfaser NordWest -will be obliged to add 300,000 end user fibre connections over the next four years. Longer term, the […]
News and BusinessAt the end of 2019, LightCounting released 12th edition of its active optical cables (AOCs) and embedded optical modules (EOMs) report which found that despite the diversity in products, nearly two-thirds of the total units from 2020-2024 will be due to just two products, 1x10G and 1x25G AOCs. That’s in spite of the fact that […]
News and BusinessTechnology platform company Lightwave Logic has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patents No. 10,509,164 and 10,511,146 to support the photonic integration of the company’s polymer modulator technical platform, bringing the company’s domestic and international portfolio to 47. Lightwave Logic’s Faster by Design™ technology is a high-speed active […]
News and BusinessChina Mobile International (CMI) has opened its first data centre in Europe to improve the fibre connectivity of its customers and partners. The purpose-built data centre located in the UK (pictured) is billed as an important addition to CMI’s growing global network. Serving as both an international network exchange hub and an internet data centre, […]
News and BusinessJuniper Networks has completed a major infrastructure upgrade to Russia’s digital services provider Rostelecom. Rostelecom has over 13 million broadband internet users and 10.3 million subscription television customers. The contract was for a large scale modernisation programme using Juniper Networks’ MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform and PTX Series Packet Transport Routers, to improve a […]
News and BusinessBT has reached an agreement for the sale of its Spanish managed ICT services business, including its domestic network infrastructure in the country, to funds managed by Portobello Capital. Assets in the transaction include a 5,600km owned and leased optical fibre network, fully-owned city fibre networks in Barcelona and Madrid and three data centres. The […]
Technologies and ProductsTelecoms and energy cable systems specialist Prysmian Group has introduced a bend- insensitive single-mode optical fibre with a 180 µm outer diameter. The BendBrightXS-180µm is designed to enable an unprecedented level of cable miniaturisation and support the evolution of high-density optical networks. Prysmian notes that, as new technologies like 5G, IoT and augmented reality evolve, […]