fibre-optic
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Telkom, South Africa’s incumbent operator, wants to sell a minority stake in Openserve, its wholesale last-mile fibre unit.
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Neos Networks has identified itself as the company that is the preferred bidder for Network Rail, Britain’s rail infrastructure company.
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Microsoft has bought Lumenisity, a UK-based start-up that makes hollow-core fibres that allow light to travel faster than along standard fibres.
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Neterra has launched a new fibre metro network in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, connecting all data centres in the city.
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Look, telecoms industry, can you slow down a bit? You’re growing so much that scientists and engineers are having a hard time keeping up, says Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Telenor has sold a 30% stake in its fibre company to a consortium that includes US-based investor KKR.
Forthcoming events
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Iskratel will merge with S&T Slovenia to form S&T Iskratel, both companies have announced.
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Verizon says a recent service outage in Florida was caused by a cut in a fibre optic during overnight construction work.
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TPG Telecom, Australia’s second-largest telecoms provider has selected Adtran’s Gfast fibre extension to roll out gigabit services in the country.
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Texas carrier Logix Fiber Networks plans to speed up network build following private equity investment of US$100 million.
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Broadband operators in North America and Europe are becoming alarmed at a shortage of fibre that is threatening to hurt governments’ ambitious plans.
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CommScope has introduced a high-speed fibre platform designed to help data centres cope with increased demand.
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Nokia has launched a range of upgrades for its next-gen packet optical transport network (P-OTN) solutions for communications services providers (CSPs) offering wholesale services.
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BT confirms the launch of its trials into new type of optical fibre - hollow core fibre - at the BT Labs in Adastral Park, Ipswich.
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GoldConnect, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider in Latin America and the Caribbean, announces the release of its state-of-the-art pricing & engagement platform, LatamConnect.
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Q&A interview with Şükrü Kutlu, chief executive officer, Türk Telekom International.
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Zimbabwe’s TelOne is expanding its network coverage at the same time as it is fighting the country’s government over unpaid bills worth US$2.6 million.
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After the news that SSE Enterprise Telecoms had rebranded as Neos Networks at the end of March, Capacity caught up with Sarah Mills, Managing Director of Wholesale and Smart Infrastructure, to find out why the relaunch took place and how it ties into the company's ambitious network and product expansion plans.
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Four neighbouring west African countries — Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal — are linking the fibre infrastructure that is provided by an energy management company.
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UK cable company Virgin Media is trying out technology that could deliver 400Gbps on a single fibre to a range of customers.
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Deutsche Telekom has set up what it calls a Fiber Factory in order to speed up the process of connecting homes and businesses across Germany to 2 million homes a year.
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Lumen Technologies (Lumen) has expanded its network infrastructure in México in support of the digital transformation of businesses in need of connectivity, IT infrastructure and the cloud.
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How is Orange revolutionising connectivity in Western Africa with Djoliba? Watch our On-Demand webinars to find out how the new network is reshaping connectivity in the region.
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CenturyLink has expanded its fibre-optic network infrastructure in Ecuador.
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The neutral network chosen by the best operators
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Infinera and Corning have joined the race to boost fibre capacity, claiming a data speed of 800Gbps over an 800km fibre.
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Ciena and Juniper have helped Verizon push the amount of data a fibre can carry on a single wavelength to an unprecedented 800Gbps.
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Nokia has announced that Angola Cables is trialling its Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa.
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BT has accelerated the transformation of its global unit with the sale of its Spanish managed ICT services business, which includes its domestic network infrastructure.
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Sergio Grassi, Sales & Marketing Director, Eolo, speaks with Capacity about product innovation, strengthening of their customer support structure and implementing their dedicated business unit.
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Wyyerd Group has selected Colo Atl for its premium data centre and interconnection services and to serve as a strategic location and a primary hub for Wyyerd Connect.
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Stack Infrastructure has moved into New Albany, Ohio, market after acquiring a purpose-built, Tier III data centre campus.
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Nebraska-based telecommunications provider Great Plains Communications has acquired regional fibre-optic carrier InterCarrier Networks (ICN).
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Cisco and Superloop have teamed up on two deployments of up to 400G on the INDIGO West cable, from Singapore to Australia, and the INDIGO Central cable, from Perth to Sydney.
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Wholesale carrier CityFibre’s Gigabit City programme has begun connecting a further million UK homes and businesses to full fibre.
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Landmark Dividend has announced the acquisition of the Flexential data centre in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Digital Realty and Ascenty have signed a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a global cloud provider to build a new data centre in Santiago, Chile.
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Vapor IO and Crown Castle have jointly developed a service that seamlessly interconnects Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge with Amazon Web Services (AWS) via Crown Castle’s high-speed Cloud Connect.
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Vodafone is expanding its fibre infrastructure for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Germany.
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Batelco Group's Umniah and the Jordan Electric Power Company (JEPCO) are establishing a new company to operate an over-ground fibre-optic network.
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AT&T has topped Vertical Systems Group’s US fibre lit buildings leaderboard for the third consecutive year.
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The Midwest Fiber Network (MFN) has upgraded its network to deliver enhanced capacity in a scalable, carrier-grade, future-proof platform by partnering with Fujitsu Network Communications.
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Windstream Wholesale has announced that its fixed wireless service will increase its wholesale Ethernet services footprint to customers in over 50 major metro markets.
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CEB FiberNet steps up wholesale game after awarding a contract to ECI to design and deploy an enhanced fibre-optic backbone network in Mauritius.
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Namibia’s national electricity provider, NamPower, has launched into the wholesale fibre-optic space.
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Nokia has deployed 100G in Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited's (PTCL) network to enhance the capacity and speed of its optical network for both domestic and international traffic.
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AeroNet has launched a 100% fibre-optic-based business connectivity service, named AeroFiber.
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Puerto Rico’s AeroNet has upgraded its fibre backbone network to 100Gbps and established a new IP node in Equinix’s NAP of The Americas facility in Miami.
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Hammer Fiber Optics Holdings has formed its first African subsidiary, Hammer Wireless, to deliver its proprietary wireless broadband services to the African continent.
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Telefónica’s O2 and Vodafone UK have extended their current network sharing partnership to accelerate the deployment of 5G, at greater scale, and to do so at a lower cost.
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Telxius and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed an agreement for the cloud service provider’s use of a fibre pair on the MAREA subsea cable.
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Windstream Wholesale is expanding its core network to Cologix’s MTL3 data centre in Montréal.
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Helios Towers has entered the South African market after entering into an agreement with Vulatel to create an infrastructure platform in the country.
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Fibre Centre has opened a new colocation facility located at 1335 Michael Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.