Optical

Contractors laying fibre in Milton Keynes, UK

FTTx

Vodafone cuts a fibre deal with Openreach

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NTT, Intel and Sony establish new global forum dedicated to realizing the communications of the future

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Optical Network Alliance established to promote industry prosperity through cross-domain cooperation

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South America’s Gtd increases capacity with Infinera’s optical transport solutions

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Adtran delivers 100G transport to streamline scale and simplify economics for 10G PON services

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The quantum internet is within reach

via Flickr © davidwebb22 (CC BY 2.0)

Broadband

New Zealand rolls out a national fibre network without the usual song and dance

Broadband

ADTRAN and toob Progress UK’s Gigabit Future

Broadband

Fifth-Generation Fixed Network Boosting the Gigabit Industry

Smart Homes

Orange launches the Livebox 5, designed with a reduced carbon footprint and doubled speeds

© BT

Broadband

Openreach: The Pit and the Pendulum

© Flickr/CC-licence/Barta IV

IoT

Good Vibrations: optical sensing across deployed fibre

Smart Cities

Verizon and NEC just made fiber sensing a whole lot easier

5G

Nokia completes world’s first single-carrier terabit-per-second field trial over Etisalat’s fibre network in UAE

via Flickr © Tanya Hart (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Nokia tops 50 Tbps over single carrier on Etisalat's fibre network

via Flickr © brand0con (CC BY-SA 2.0)

White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

AT&T submits its White Box Router design to the Open Compute Project

© Flickr/cc-licence/Bob Mical

Optical

Infinera aims at disruption with new point-to-multipoint optical solution

© BT

Broadband

UK plans are afoot to phase out copper network by 2027

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Netsam boosts metro network capacity with ADVA technology

Broadband

ADTRAN Delivers the Gigabit Society Reality with 10G PON Market Leadership

Broadband

Scottish housing associations team with CityFibre to bring full fibre broadband to tenants

Broadband

NBN Co Adopts Infinera Transcend Network Automation Solution to Enhance Australia’s Open-access Broadband Network

via Flickr © Myself248 (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Business Models

Network business models and how to build them

Cable Ship Rene Descartes © Flickr/cc-licence/Mark Stainton

Submarine Network

Dark days for the Pacific Light Cable Network