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Broadband

Vodafone claims it’s spearheading FTTx adoption in the UK

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Windstream Wholesale adds Pacific Northwest route, more than 1,000 miles to its long-haul network with Infinera’s FlexILS line system

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Nokia and Angola Cables trial the first direct optical connection between USA and Africa with PSE-3 chipset

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Video

Warner Bros and Universal combine their DVD distribution effort

Patents and IPR

HEVC advance announces the addition of Huawei as a licensor and licensee

Submarine Network

NEC qualifies 20 fiber pair subsea telecom cable systems, with further advances soon

Orange

The submarine cable FLY-LION3 will allow the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris Institute of Earth Physics) to listen to seismo-volcanic activity in the Mayotte region

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DOCSIS

10G: Will it be twice as good as 5G?

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Policy & Regulation

Ofcom aims at ‘flexible regulation’ for UK post-Brexit fibre broadband

Broadband

Ofcom proposals balance improved fibre business case with customer protection

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Business Models

Operator voice revenues to fall by 45 per cent by 2024

Broadband

Ofcom reveals its latest UK broadband and mobile coverage figures

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Huawei’s BusinessPON solution helps China Mobile build a full-fiber gigabit enterprise private network

FTTx

KPN begins large-scale fibre installation in Amsterdam

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ADVA leads project to boost optical network capacity

Satellite

Inmarsat launches Fleet LTE service in the North Sea

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Cloud

HPE and AWS say they’re stepping up to the edge

Edge & MEC

AWS and Verizon team up to deliver 5G edge cloud computing

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Etisalat and Huawei complete industry's first trial of compact optical cross-connect

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Juniper Networks achieves industry milestone for longest 400GbE deployment

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AT&T launches industry-first 400-Gigabit network connection to support video, augmented reality, gaming and other 5G needs

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Infinera announces availability of new hardened TSN solution for 5G and fiber deep applications

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Broadband

Network nationalisation is back on the UK political agenda

Cloud

Ribbon Communications Inc. to Merge with ECI Telecom Group Ltd