Optical & Fixed Networks

Lior Kahan of Gilat Satcom has written to Developing Telecoms, asking whether fibre-based and satellite communications are really the rivals they are made out to be, ie, do they compete with each other or do they complement each other?

New submarine cables being laid along the east coast of Africa will bring unprecedented connectivity options and related business opportunities to the region...

Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN)'s vision of five billion people connected by 2015 involves smart connectivity, an innovative concept that will provide powerful solutions for heterogeneous networks...

UAE telecom provider du is to become the first operator in the Middle East to deploy Corning SMF-28 ULL optical fibre. du's ambition is a 3G cellular and fibre-to-the-home domestic network with links to Saudi Arabia...

Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...

SMART, a Czech metropolitan optical networks operator, plans to build a fiber-to-the-home optical network in Brno in the Czech Republic. The service will cover about 6,600 homes and residents will be able to use triple-play services (Internet access, digital TV and VoIP telephony) in a converged way, with a quality superior to that of most commonly available types of connections...

Nearly 70% of Angolans will now be able to receive satellite communications through a fibre-optic cable running the length of the Angolan coastline. WFN Strategies will supply Angola Telecom with telecoms, business and engineering support.

JDSU has an all-in-one fibre-optic test kit, providing network technicians with a way to avoid one of the leading causes of network downtime: contaminated, or "dirty," fibre...

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) will soon become FTEH (Fiber to Every Home), and FTTO (Fiber to the Office) will also become FTEO (Fiber to Every Office) as standard for new construction in many developed countries by 2010...

The FOA has created a new certification programme covering "Fiber Optic Network Design"...

After a series of major - and sometimes spectacular - failures in Internet services in the Middle East and Indian regions, FLAG Telecom (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) has undertaken the construction of a far stronger cable between Egypt and France...

This year will witness a national Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network throughout Algeria in what is believed to be Africa's first business strategy to incorporate FTTH...

Fibre-optics professionals should be simplifying the classification of fibre-optics, particularly in the face of competition from copper products...

Designed to assist users of fibre-optic communications systems, the Fibre-Optic Association's new website is designed to help these very users plan and install fibre-optic communications systems...

Reliance Communications’ Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe subsidiary is set to achieve its ambition of becoming the world’s largest IP network over submarine cabling. FLAG has awarded Fujitsu the contract which will double FLAG’s size and build four new cable systems across the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

 

Brasil Telecom GlobeNet has selected Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade its 22,000 km submarine network running across the Americas...

Pioneer Consulting has completed a study of market demand and supply in connection with the proposed West African Festoon System (WAFS)...

Angola's Savings and Credits Bank (BPC) is set to provide US$70 million for a new fibre-optic cable network which will connect Angola's coastal provinces...

Extending the existing copper products in its Heliax family, Andrew Corporation has introduced a selection of corrugated aluminium-cable products designed to be a cost-effective, high-quality extension to its copper corrugated transmission-line systems...

Global wireless solutions group Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) is promoting what is believed to be the world's first corrugated aluminium transmission line and the lightest RF transmission cable currently on the market.

Following on almost immediately from our report about the financing of the East African Submarine Cable project (EASSy), Developing Telecoms can report that Alcatel of France has won the EASSy contract par excellence...

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project...

New jumper cable caps from Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) are claimed to offer improved RF connection between main feeders and antennas or system equipment...

Algeria' s rising demand for telephony has created a new opportunity for the country's major mobile operator. Orascom Telecom has teamed up with its fellow Egyptian company Telecom Egypt to set up Consortium Algerien de Telecommunication and run Algeria' s second fixed-line system.