Nokia has announced that Vietnam’s largest service provider, Viettel will use its optical transport solution to cost-effectively address the ever-growing demand for 5G and Data Center Interconnect ...

Amdocs has established itself as an industry leader in simplifying and speeding the deployment and management of fibre for more than 40 service providers around the world. Referring to the new ...

Building on a longstanding partnership, the collaboration integrates Adtran’s SDG 8700 Series Wi-Fi 7 technology with Candela’s automated testing platform. This combination enables the testing of ...

Our sister title, Electro Optics, has revealed its Photonics100 list of photonics innovators for 2025, and many of the honourees are from the fibre systems and optical communications fields. Mark ...

Fibre optic sensing uses the light travelling through a fibre to detect changes in temperature, strain and other parameters. The fibre itself becomes the sensor here, creating many continuous points ...

Optical networks are so essential that that if something goes wrong, the consequences can be wide-reaching, so operators need a quick and efficient solution that fits their modern network ...

In his plenary keynote at OFC, David Richardson, Partner Researcher at Microsoft, reviewed the progress in emerging transmission fibre technologies and discussed where they might prove most disruptive ...

The submarine cable industry is reportedly booming, with latest figures from Research and Markets putting the global market at $10.3bn in 2017 – with it expected to rise to $30.8bn by 2026. Some of ...

Furqan Alamgir, Chief Executive Officer at UK alternative network builder and ISP, Connexin, gives Fibre Systems his view on the biggest challenges and opportunities for fibre network operators in ...

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 ...

The companies say that the demonstration showcases a proven interoperable multi-vendor ecosystem for high performance optical transmission that is a new direction for the optical communications ...

At this year’s ECOC conference, photonics companies showcased advanced technologies, including thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) and glass-based quantum photonic chips, to address the rising data ...