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Hyperoptic offers Londoners 1Gbps fibre broadband

...at £28 per month including line rental. "There is a preconception that fibre optic is expensive and therefore cannot be made available to consumers," Hyperoptic... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Virgin Media speeds up XL broadband service to 30Mbps

...Virgin Media has speeded up the middle layer of its fibre-optic broadband, with the XL 20Mbps service accelerating to 30Mbps as of... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Rich Trenholm

Researchers demo 512Gbps over single fibre channel

...technology would be 400Gbps per channel. "While the bar is higher for fibre-optic transmission in a laboratory setting, this record was set under real... Read more

5 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Police and BT target cable thieves

...the Met said in a statement on Monday. During copper cable theft, fibre-optic cable is often damaged, exacerbating communications cuts, police said. Damaged fibre... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Down the sewer to inspect Geo's fibre

Down the sewer to inspect Geo's fibre

...would run the risk of getting tangled. Tangling would be disastrous for fibre-optic cable. Even excessive bending would disrupt the passage of the light... Read more

28 May, 2011 by David Meyer

UK space industry booms in recession

...be delivered by satellite, and how much by other means, such as fibre optic or copper cable. The minister said that rural broadband in Cornwall... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Virgin to trial super-fast broadband via electricity poles

...on Tuesday that it will begin trialling the delivery of super-fast fibre optic broadband via the existing electricity pole infrastructure to a small village... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

Google chooses Kansas City as broadband test hub

The company has picked the Kansas city from more than 1,100 communities to test the company's ultra-high-speed municipal broadband project Read more

31 March, 2011 by Caroline McCarthy

BT pits town against town in race for fibre broadband

The telecommunications firm has launched a survey to gauge demand for fibre broadband around the UK, with the five places showing the most interest guaranteed to get fibre activation by 2012 Read more

4 October, 2010 by Ben Woods
New Family of Algebraically Designed Zero Cross-Correlation Codes for Use in CDMA <endeca_term>Fibre-Optic</endeca_term> Networks

New Family of Algebraically Designed Zero Cross-Correlation Codes for Use in CDMA Fibre-Optic Networks

In this paper, the authors present a new technique for constructing Zero Cross-correlation Codes (ZCC). The proposed... Read more

1 December, 2011
Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Has Intel solved the problems that have kept fibre-optic connections out of our hands for years Read more

5 August, 2010 by Mary Branscombe

Alcatel-Lucent's PSE chip looks ahead to 400Gb networks

...Alcatel-Lucent has announced its Photonic Service Engine, a chip for fibre-optic networks that doubles capacity and looks ahead to networks running at... Read more

7 March, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Google set to build backbone of its 1Gbps fibre network

...Google is ready to start laying fibre-optic lines in two US cities for its Google Fiber project to... Read more

7 February, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

Intel's Light Peak to debut without light

Intel's fibre-optic Light Peak technology, which is supposed to replace the profusion of... Read more

10 December, 2010

Cameron hints at imminent 100Mbps broadband rollout

Virgin Media could be launching its 100Mbps high-speed fibre-optic broadband service by the end of the week according to comments... Read more

26 October, 2010

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