Virgin Media trials Infinera’s XR Optics to deliver multi-gigabit speeds
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 1st April 2021
Virgin Media is trialling Infinera's XR Optics technology with the possibility of using it to deliver multi-gigabit speeds to customers.XR Optics claims to “break the inherent limitations of traditional point-to-point optical transmission solutions" with improved coherent optical subcarrier aggregation and a pluggable and software-enabled architecture designed to reduce the cost of deploying and operating optical networks.
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Monaco’s digital transition: fibre optics installation is complete
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 1st April 2021
210 kilometres of fibre optic cables have been installed across the Principality, as Monaco continues with its digital transition, providing super-fast connectivity to its residents.Installing fibre optics for a faster internet connection is one of the key aims of Monaco's digital transition, but the Principality's transformation does not end here: there will be 5G available, as well as a “Sovereign Cloud". Over the past few months, Monaco Telecom, the nation's telecommunications operator, has installed 210 kilometres of fibre optic cables, providing an incredible connection speed of 10 giga-bites per second.
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Virgin Media UK Trial Claims 400Gbps Speeds via a Single Fibre
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 1st April 2021
A new trial conducted by broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (Liberty Global) has harnessed a prototype of Infinera XR Optics technology in its existing network, which they claim could potentially deliver multi-gigabit speeds to customers by boosting symmetric transfer rates up to 400Gbps in a single fibre.At present the best consumer speeds that customers can expect on Virgin Media’s EuroDOCSIS 3.0 based Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is over 600Mbps, although 1Gbps+ speeds are possible in areas that have been upgraded to their latest DOCSIS 3.1 platform (due to cover their entire network by the end of 2021).
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Broadband Forum Proposes Fibre Extension over Old Copper Lines
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 1st April 2021
The Broadband Forum has published a new technical report (TR-419), which proposes a different way for “full fibre” (FTTP) builders to cut their deployment costs via a Fibre-to-the-extension-point (FTTep) approach. In short, it’s another way of cutting out the need to replace the last few metres of copper with fibre.
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High pressure improves optical fibres
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 6th November 2020
Optical fibre data transmission can be significantly improved by producing the fibres, made of silica glass, under high pressure, researchers from Japan and the US report in the journal npj Computational Materials.
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New subsea cable to connect 23 African countries
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 2nd June 2020
Eight companies have come together to build 2Africa, a subsea cable designed to serve the African continent and Middle East region. The cable will also connect via east Africa with other subsea cables for expanded connectivity to Asia.
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LIberty Global, Telefonica to merge Virgin Media, O2 into joint venture
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 12th May 2020
Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) and Telefonica SA (Madrid stock exchange: TEF) have reached an agreement to merge their operations in the UK into a joint venture. The merger, valued at £31.4 billion ($38 billion) will see the combination of Liberty’s Virgin Media cable MSO with Telefonica’s O2 mobile services provider. When consummated, an event the two parties expect will take place by the middle of next year, the joint venture will serve more than 46 million video, broadband, and mobile subscribers and boast £11 billion ($13.6 billion) of revenue. The joint venture does not include Liberty Global’s operations in Ireland.
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Virgin Media Completes Another 4000 FTTP Premises in Manchester
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 17th July 2019
As it stands today Virgin has built a network that covers 714,000 premises across the metropolitan region and 94,000 of those have been added since 2015 as part of their national Project Lightning network expansion, which aims to add an additional 3-4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they’ve completed over 1.7 million).
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Infinera Redefines Operational Speed
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 19th November 2018
Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced today the availability of an innovative packet-optical aggregation and transport solution purpose-built to accelerate and simplify the delivery of high-speed, low-latency services in access networks at the lowest total cost of ownership.
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A photonics merger trend
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 19th November 2018
The global materials and opto electronics company II-VI Inc. announced that it planned to acquire the optical-technology and communications firm Finisar.
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Quantum repeaters on the horizon
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 16th November 2018
Scientists have developed a broadband optical antenna for highly efficient extraction of entangled photons. With a yield of 37% per pulse, it is billed as the brightest source of entangled photons reported so far.
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UK Plans Full Fibre Future
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 16th November 2018
Mandatory full fibre broadband for all new build homes and a new priority to connect hard-to-reach rural areas are among key measures proposed in a just released national, long-term strategy for UK telecommunications
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Next Generation Lasers
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 16th November 2018
EU Scientists are harnessing next generation lasers to create light-speed broadband connections and remove the data bottlenecks that could cause the Internet to grind to a halt as demand increases.
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Core Modulator Technology Shrinks to Chip Scale
Posted in News by Fibre Technologies on 2nd October 2018
The Harvard–Nokia Bell Labs work has downsized the technology embodied in conventional lithium niobate (LN) electro-optical modulators (right) to a chip-scale device (center) that reportedly is 20 times more efficient.
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Keeping up with Data Centre Interconnect
Posted in News by Fibre on 4th March 2015
Stu Elby, senior vice president of cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera, discusses the growing demand for inter-data centre traffic and the efficient solutions which should respond to this challenge.
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Transpacket sign FTL as their UK distribution partner
Posted in News by Fibre on 23th July 2013
BOOST YOUR OPTICAL NETWORK CAPACITY UTILIZATION Enable higher capacity utilization of your installed fibre systems with the TransPacket Fusion H1. Postpone bandwidth upgrades and save substantial cost by injecting more traffic in your network without any impact on your current network performance.
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CTC Union sign Fibre Technologies Limited as their distribution partner in the UK
Posted in News by Fibre on 19th July 2013
CTC Union founded in 1993, is committed to developing and manufacturing and selling network communication products. In particular, the focus on fiber optical technologies, Ethernet technologies and the integration of broadband access technologies. With leading-edge technology and high quality service as the driving force, CTC union continued steady growth, and become a top global equipment supplier of innovative last-mile access in the telecommunications market.
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Zamir Telecom sweating their assets
Posted in News by Fibre on 20th May 2013
Zamir Telecom identified the need to break out SDH STM-1 carrier links into both E1 ports for local device processing and have the ability to cross-connect VC-12 containers between STM streams
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10G Sure we can
Posted in News by Fibre on 19th December 2012
Constantly growing amounts of data storage, requirements for rich media, the Internet, smart phones and the speed of delivery are just some of the drivers behind the ever evolving technology that is deployed by Sure on a daily basis, so it is of no surprise that their customers are constantly asking for greater bandwidth and new solutions to enable those requirements.
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Fibre Management and Its Role in Cloud Computing
Posted in News by Fibre on 6th December 2012
An entire industry has been changed to serve the data storage and redundant efforts of businesses through these data centers and colocation companies and also to serve the data-protection needs of the everyday consumer most of which have multiple digital devices capable of creating gigabits and terabits of data through smartphones, MP3 players, notebooks, laptops, and computers.
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Fibre to the home is coming to you at the speed of light
Posted in News by Fibre on 21th September 2012
The Innbox brand portfolio from FTL www.fibre.co.uk encompasses a broad portfolio of innovative customer premises equipment like network termination devices with integrated RF converters for CATV, home gateways, universal home gateways, set-top boxes, media centers and power line communication devices which have the following distinguishing characteristics: designed and produced in EU awarded for technical perfection and unique modular design provide high performance enable fast installation, maintenance and remote management provide premium end-user experience, are based on a pay-as-you-grow business model multi-vendor interoperability are green lower power consumption than required by EU legislation, top technical support and training programs
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Secure Optical Networking white paper
Posted in News by Fibre on 31th August 2012
Optical fibre cables form the underlying infrastructure on which the modern data centric society is founded. Often taken for granted, these life lines are in fact susceptible to many hazards. While all data processing equipment is securely locked away in data centres, often underground or otherwise highly secured, the interconnecting fibre lines run outside in public ground.
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The clearfield Fibre management Philosophy
Posted in News by Fibre on 31th August 2012
The whole point of every component within a Fibre management system --- from the 125um cladding on the fibre cable construction, cable jacketing, splitter packaging for outside plant and the route paths within them, is to protect and reduce the risk of fibre damage. Period.
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B&B Electronics acquires IMC
Posted in News by Fibre on 25th July 2012
B&B Electronics (www.bb-elec.com), a developer of wired and wireless connectivity technology, has expanded its portfolio to include the industry’s most comprehensive offerings of fiber access networking solutions through its acquisition of IMC Networks (www.imcnetworks.com).
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BridgeWave webinar
Posted in News by Fibre on 11th June 2012
Join BridgeWave for an informative 45 minute webinar to learn how millimetre wave gigabit wireless solutions are providing essential high-capacity connectivity across various market segments in the United Kingdom.
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Fibre Technologies attains ISO14001
Posted in News by Fibre on 11th June 2012
ISO 14001 is slowly becoming the world's most up and coming international standard. Environmental impacts, global warming and local environmental issues are now on the news regularly or every other day. It is everyone's job to look after the environment, in order to make it a better place for us, and for future generations. What is your business doing to limit its environmental impact?
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Heather Takes to the Skies
Posted in News by Fibre on 16th June 2011
Fibre Technologies is proud to support Heather Wood in her TRAINING for a Wing Walking display to raise money for the Rainbow Trust
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BTI transparent caching
Posted in News by Fibre on 6th June 2011
As Internet traffic continues to grow, service providers are doing what they can to keep pace but they face a variety of challenges, including dealing with network congestion, having less control over their networks, and striking the right balance between improving end-user quality of experience and reducing infrastructure and bandwidth costs.
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Networked access control for data cabinets
Posted in News by Fibre on 23th March 2011
The SmartCard handle is designed for use with either inductive, mechanical or optical door opening / closing sensor and the SmartCards themselves can either be HID or Mifare compatible. It is also compatible with enclosure industry standards in terms of its footprint and mounting dimensions enabling retrofitting to most existing enclosures.
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A Director with Direction
Posted in News by Fibre on 16th December 2010
Fibre Technologies is pleased to announce David Taylor’s new role in Fibre Technologies as Technical Sales Director.
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Cache is King Intelligent Content Networking
Posted in News by Fibre on 5th October 2010
Fibre Technologies Offers WideCast from BTI. WideCast optimizes, Intelligent Content Networking ICN for the edge of the network with our focus on fundamental principles when architecting network solutions
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New products from Microsens
Posted in News by Fibre on 13th July 2010
10G Transport Platform - 8 port multi-protocol, multi-rate TDM. MICROSENS management software the Network Management Platform as well as about an Optical Bypass Switch.
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Case Study: Performance Assurance for Mobile Backhaul Networks
Posted in News by Fibre on 9th July 2010
Continually measuring the Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) of the SLA's being delivered in backhaul networks is critical to the successful execution of the delivery of Ethernet mobile backhaul services. This month we're excited to publish a case study of SureWest Communications experiences delivering their Wireless Carrier Backhaul Service to some of the top tier wireless operators. Next up to help prepare for the migration to 4G LTE networks, Accedian has recently published our LTE Performance Assurance Handbook. Finally, we're proud to announce the General Availability of our much anticipated MetroNODE 10GEâ„¢ platform.
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Creanord Redefining 10GbE Performance
Posted in News by Fibre on 28th April 2010
MetroNODE 10GE is based on the proven heritage of the dedicated-silicon Fast-Thru architecture of EtherNID and MetroNID units delivering the features carriers need, without compromise. The MetroNODE 10GE packet performance node brings unrivalled service creation & assurance performance to critical, high-density, 10GbE applications.
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Fibre Technologies Supports NSPCC
Posted in News by Fibre on 11th November 2008
Fibre Technologies is sponsoring James Ketchell to help him in his quest to row 2931 miles across the Atlantic ocean alone and unaided, to raise money for the NSPCC
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