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.

This White Paper from Setics explores various methods of cost analysis for network projects and highlights which approaches are most appropriate based on different scenarios, such as grant ...

When it comes to fibre network deployment, cost is unarguably a key consideration in the decision-making process. However, the term "cost" can mean different things to different stakeholders. From ...

Steve Roberts, Senior Vice President of Strategic Investments at EXA Infrastructure, commented on the expansion: “This investment opens Finland as a new market for EXA, aligning with our vision of ...

PCIe Gen 7, operating at 128 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) per lane, enables AI and ML workloads to scale across compute fabrics. It delivers the high performance, low latency, and energy efficiency ...

Through Light Blue Fibre, a joint venture between Cambridgeshire County Council and the University of Cambridge to commercially market the fibre assets of both the University and the Council, this ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has and continues to affect every-day life throughout the world. In the optical communications industry, the first obvious signs were when events began to postpone, cancel and ...

Gigaclear has secured an additional £111 million (€131 million) in equity funding to build new fibre networks in rural Britain. This will enable a significant acceleration in the build rate of these ...

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 next generation of optical networks will need to provide the capacity required to explosive bandwidth demand, and do so without cost or sustainability compromises. Keely Portway finds out how this ...

The 2Africa is one of the world’s largest subsea cable projects, interconnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa. Pictured here is the cable system landing in the UK (Credit: European Subsea Cables ...

The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), which regulates competition, in Spain has approved the definitive regulation of the wholesale broadband access markets. The new measure ...