News and BusinessThe UK could see a new wholesale fibre operator set up in direct competition to Openreach, BT’s wholesale fibre business, according to a report on the Financial Times website. It reports that Telefónica and Liberty Global, who jointly own Virgin Media O2, have held preliminary discussions with potential investors on the creation of a new […]
Technologies and ProductsJuniper Networks is working with Telefónica to deliver the service provider’s next iteration of the Telefónica Spain Fusión Network project, to meet the growing demands for connectivity across the country for the next three years. Telefónica designed the Fusión Network to transform the customer experience for mobile, residential and business services across Spain. Since its […]
News and BusinessAccording to data from the Spanish telecommunications regulator Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) April 2018 saw the number of FTTH lines in the country increase by 150,893. This brought the total number of FTTH lines in operation to 7.3 million. On an annualised basis, with respect to April 2017 there was […]
Applications and ResearchOptical fibre alternative proves to be “six times better” than competing technologies, say developers. 5TONIC Labs, Telefónica, and Cohere Technologies report that they have cooperated in “successful trials” to test Cohere Technologies’ latest 5G turboConnect Fixed Wireless Access solution. The solution uses Cohere’s patented OTFS modulation to deliver broadband access to urban, suburban, and rural […]
News and BusinessSpain’s Telefónica and Chinese behemoth Huawei have successfully completed laboratory tests on the latter’s Transport Software-Defined Network (T-SDN) solution. This controller incorporates improvements for the planning, management, monitoring and diagnosis of Telefónica España’s photonic mesh. The tests pave the way for future all-optical transport and the commercial deployment of T-SDN. In 2009, Telefónica began deploying […]
Applications and ResearchAs part of the eXHAUL Project. Ericsson has announced the successful testing of eXHAUL Project, a novel network concept which provides agnostic transport for Radio (Fronthaul & Backhaul) and Fixed Enterprise Access, supporting the current CPRI, eCPRI, Ethernet and future 5G fronthaul interfaces. The project is a collaborative activity between Telefonica and Ericsson aiming at […]
Applications and ResearchSpanish telco Telefónica has mounted a pioneering demonstration of the use of Plastic Optical Fibre (POF) as a solution for home connectivity. The system is claimed to be easy to install, and guarantees up to 1 Gbits/s capacity for customers. In addition, Telefónica demonstrated the potential of 60 GHz Wi-Fi technology, which can offer theoretical […]
Technologies and ProductsTelefonica is the latest operator to test XGS-PON, the 10-gigabit passive optical networking standard. “Operators want to show they are taking the maximum from their fibre investment,” said Ana Pesovic, marketing manager for fibre at Nokia, a supplier of the XGS-PON equipment used for the operator’s lab tests. “Telefonica has been really aggressive in their […]
News and BusinessETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, launches this week the first Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) interoperability Plugtests event. This international event, which takes place until 3 February in Leganes, Madrid, Spain, is hosted by 5TONIC Laboratory, with the technical support of Telefonica and IMDEA Networks Institute. This significant event comes hot on the heels of […]
News and BusinessTelefónica is testing a 200-gigabit optical mesh network in Barcelona, adding to its existing optical mesh deployment across Madrid. Both mesh networks are part of the optical infrastructure that underpins the operator’s nationwide IP-MPLS network that is under construction. The operator embarked on the new network to support the growth in video-on-demand and over-the-top streaming […]