Technologies and ProductsSumix Corporation has announced the development and introduction of Huber and Suhner’s ODC® and Q-ODC® inspection tips for the Sumix Manta-W+ fibre microscope. The Huber and Suhner Q-ODC® and ODC® outdoor connectors are waterproof, dust proof, corrosion resistant and RoHs compliant for reliable connection in harsh environments. Sumix has developed adapters for both plug and […]
Guest Blog400G is now under release over multiple form-factors: QSDFP-DD, OSFP and CFP8. While the short-term deployment is on the access side, and mainly for intra-DC application, other applications such as DCI and transmission are also going on the 400G direction. As we are now getting familiar with the form-factors and the PAM4 modulation, it is […]
News and BusinessJapan’s optical hardware spending surge continued for the fourth quarter in a row with an extraordinary 82% year-over-year increase in the first quarter of 2019 according to the most recent Optical Hardware Report from market research firm Cignal AI. Prime beneficiaries were domestic suppliers NEC, Mitsubishi and Fujitsu along with Ciena and Nokia, all of […]
News and BusinessA new report from LightCounting suggests that a sharp decline in Q1 2019 infrastructure spending by cloud companies may spell trouble ahead for the global optical communications market. The market research company notes that infrastructure investments by the cloud companies have supported the sales growth of optical communications equipment, modules and components since 2010. Combined […]
Applications and ResearchA new 100G fibre link is set to boost research and education collaboration between the Asia-Pacific and European regions with faster and cheaper connectivity. An international consortium of six research and education (R&E) networks, including AARNet (Australia), GÉANT (Europe), NORDUnet (European Nordics), SingAREN (Singapore), SURF (The Netherlands) and TEIN*CC (Asia-Pacific), have announced the launch of […]
News and BusinessTelia Carrier has announced a partnership with Sweden’s EcoDataCenter, the “world’s first climate positive” data centre. The deal will offer customers of the facility full access to Telia Carrier’s fibre and interconnectivity services, while hosting their data in a highly secure green data centre. EcoDataCenter builds facilities for co-location, HPC (high-performance computing) and wholesale/hyperscale data […]
Technologies and ProductsPOST Luxembourg has begun deploying the FSP 150-Z4806 100Gbps service aggregation platform from ADVA for “rapid provisioning”. Featuring the Ensemble Activator network operating system, the mail and telecoms firm says it is using the platform to “seamlessly scale its edge data centres to 100Gbps”. Ensemble Activator is billed as the industry’s first carrier-grade network operating […]
News and BusinessGlobal fibre networking provider GTT Communications has appointed Ernie Ortega as division president for the Americas. Ortega will lead the expanded Americas division, including enterprise, channel, carrier and government clients. GTT has also promoted Jesper Aagaard to an expanded role as division president for Europe, including the UK region. Each division at the company leads […]
News and BusinessThe melting of the region’s ice is opening up the possibility of constructing a new Arctic subsea fibre cable route. This month, Finland’s Cinia and Russia’s MegaFon signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture to prepare the build of a submarine communications cable across the Arctic Sea. The partners say […]
Technologies and ProductsFull Fibre, a telecommunications company based in the south west of England, has selected DZS Keymile’s Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and XGS-PON technologies for its new optical fibre network. The network operator is targeting business parks and the surrounding residential areas and will provide homes and businesses with bandwidths of one gigabit per second. […]
News and BusinessTelecom Italia’s Sparkle subsidiary has extended its fibre links in both the Balkans and the Middle-East. First, Sparkle and Telekom Slovenije of Slovenia have announced the launch of a new cross border optical fibre link directly connecting Ljubljana – the captial of Slovenia – with Milan, northern Italy. Fully interconnected with Sparkle’s and Telekom Slovenije’s […]
News and BusinessHurricane Electric, the global fibre connectivity provider, has added a new point-of-presence (PoP) at e-shelter, the owner, operator and developer of data centres across Europe. The new PoP is located at e-shelter’s Rümlang, near Zurich data centre in Switzerland. The PoP is Hurricane Electric’s third location in Switzerland and it says it will provide enterprises […]
Applications and ResearchThe University of L’Aquila, Italy, Sumitomo Electric Industries, and Optoscribe have jointly deployed what they are calling “the world’s first testbed for multi-core fibre (MCF) communications” in a field-deployed environment in the city of L’Aquila, as part of the INCIPICT project. An MCF is an optical fibre with multiple cores in a glass cladding and […]