Greater Manchester Combined Authority partners Cisco for GM One Network
NEWS The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)’s burgeoning GM One Network will provide improved connectivity to numerous public sector organisations within the city-region, including local government and emergency services Back in early 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic the GMCA launched a Digital Blueprint, setting out a three-year strategy focussed on improving the city-region’s digital infrastructure and engagement. Perhaps one of the most significant goals laid out in this...
Giganet Name 5 More Hampshire Areas for FTTP Broadband Build
Fern Trading-backed UK broadband ISP Giganet (Cuckoo), which is currently investing £250m to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband across parts of Southern England, has this week unveiled a new batch of five locations in Hampshire to benefit from their ongoing deployment. The operator’s current plan is to cover a total of 300,000 premises […]
Huawei Won the “Outstanding FTTH Solution” Award at BBWF 2022 with Leading 50G PON Innovation
PARTNER CONTENT [Netherlands, Amsterdam, October 19, 2022] At the award ceremony of Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2022, Huawei’s SingleFAN Pro solution won the “Outstanding FTTH Solution” award. With its unique innovation capabilities in the 50G PON field, Huawei takes the lead in implementing the next-generation PON defined by ITU-T and completed live-network verification. This is the fourth consecutive time that Huawei won this award since 2019, proving the industry’s high recognition of...
The digital divide is no urban myth
Contributed Article In a rapidly changing world, new technologies are transforming the way we live and work. Much has been said about the importance of rural connectivity in delivering these changes, but what about our towns and cities? Paul Stonadge, Sales and Commercial Director at Cellnex UK, discusses the need to address the digital divide in urban areas in order to tackle exclusion. In a post-pandemic world, we have become even more dependent on reliable, high-speed connections for our...
China Unicom Qinghai Trials 800G OTN to Upgrade All-Optical Networks
PARTNER CONTENT China Unicom Qinghai, China Unicom Research Institute, and Huawei have jointly completed the world’s first trial commercial use of 800G OTN technology on live networks to fully upgrade all-optical networks. This technology helps build a green ultra-broadband network. As data center services ramp up, there are urgent demands for higher bandwidth to transmit massive data. Such demands come from migrating hundreds of terabit-level enterprise service systems to cloud platforms,...
Broadband Disrupted to Shetland After Subsea Fibre Cables Break
Homes and businesses on Shetland, which is a remote subarctic archipelago that resides some way north of Scotland, have suffered two breakages to different parts of their main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) submarine (subsea) fibre optic cable. As a result, a lot of broadband and phone connections on the island are being disrupted. The cable is […]
Confusion as CityFibre Says Four Story Building Too Tall for FTTP Broadband
Residents of a block of flats in Edinburgh (Scotland) – called ‘Tytler Court‘ – have been left confused after Cityfibre, which had just completed the build of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the area, told them that they could not serve the building because it was “too tall“.. at just four-stories […]
The missing 3.2 billion…
NEWS The latest GSMA annual State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report has highlighted that 4.3 billion people were using mobile internet at the end of 2021 – an enormous number in anyone’s estimation, but still only slightly above half (55%) of the world’s population. Putting it another way 3.2 billion people worldwide fall into the usage gap, they are covered by a mobile broadband network – which 95% of the worlds population now are – but other reasons prevent them from getting online....
GoFibre Win North Northumberland Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract
The third Local Supplier contract under the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth £7.3m – has today been awarded to rural ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which will upgrade broadband for more than 3,750 hard-to-reach premises across North Northumberland (England). Project Gigabit aims to extend 1Gbps capable (download speeds) networks to reach at […]
EE UK Launch New Bundles in Quest to Become Top Network for Gaming
Mobile operator and broadband ISP EE has today begun a new drive to become the “no.1 network for gaming in the UK” by launching a range of bundles for their 5G and full fibre (FTTP) customers, which match the latest PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch consoles to their various connectivity packages. However, the announcement, which […]