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Work begins on Bournemouth fibre network
News The city's sewers will play home to the fibre-optic cables themselves, while a small trench will take the fibre to a box installed on the outside of the customer's home. The scheme will give the town's residents a chance to connect to an FTTP...
[October 20, 2008, 9:33]
BT fixing fibre-optic broadband problem
News Back in the 1980s, BT used fibre-optic cable to connect some of its street cabinets to local exchanges, typically when new housing developments were being wired up. Unlike the traditional copper lines -- which were usually still used to connect...
[April 11, 2003, 14:39]
KPNQwest loses its grip on data
News An Internet performance-monitoring company says KPNQwest's fibre-optic network has been losing track of the data it delivers at "alarming rates" since Friday. KPNQwest runs Europe's largest fibre-optic network, carrying one-quarter of the region's...
[June 13, 2002, 11:46]
The Day Ahead: Broadwing flies under the radar
News Commentary: You'd think the company behind the third largest fibre optic network would get a little more attention, but Broadwing is flying under the radar for now. Network installation problems with fibre optic high-fliers are pretty well...
[November 8, 2000, 13:00]
Malaysia unveils high-speed broadband project
News The Malaysian government says it is willing to fund 30 percent of a proposed multi-billion-dollar high-speed broadband services project, which will include provisions for a "last-mile" fibre-optic network.
[October 3, 2007, 14:58]
BT to deliver fibre for BBC's new Manchester home
News BT has been awarded a five-year, multi-million pound contract to build the fibre-optic-based communications infrastructure for MediaCityUK, a £500m business complex under construction in Manchester. BT is investing heavily in fibre-optic networks...
[December 7, 2009, 14:41]
The Day Ahead: Lucent ups fibre optic ante
News Lucent Technologies entered the fibre optic game with its $4.5bn acquisition of privately held Chromatis Networks, which makes metro optical networking systems. Here's the fibre optic scorecard. If you had to pick the current fibre optic leader...
[June 1, 2000, 12:14]
Bournemouth uses sewer pipes for internet
News Around 1,400 metres of the 18mm fibre optic cable has been laid through the town's sewer network, owned by Wessex Water, using ready-made ducts to push the cable through and save the cost and time usually taken digging up roads.
[March 5, 2007, 8:01]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News Packages of data are sent down fibre-optic cables in the form of particles of light — or photons — which are then received and converted back into data. He added that photons leaking from the fibre-optic cable over longer distances mean data...
[October 13, 2008, 9:42]
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
News Their method take advantage of the fact fibre-optic systems inevitably have low levels of "noise" — the random jitters in the light waves that are used to transmit information through a network. The technique hinges on transmission of encrypted...
[October 13, 2006, 16:00]
Finding a funder for fibre to the home
News As bandwidth demands continue to increase, the requirement for fibre-optic internet connections has risen up the regulatory agenda. Speaking exclusively to ZDNet.co.uk, Harrington explained why providing a fibre-optic connection to every UK home...
[May 6, 2008, 16:23]
Philadelphia pushes on with Wi-Fi plan
News Other projects in smaller or rural municipalities are digging up streets to install speedy fibre-optic lines into homes and businesses. In contrast, Verizon just introduced a new 3Mbps downstream DSL tier that costs $30 a month and plans to lace...
[April 8, 2005, 9:35]
Supercomm diversifies as telcos suffer
News Last Thursday, BellSouth, SBC and Verizon said they've agreed to use the same framework of fibre-optic hardware and software, and do much of the legwork together, as they expand their networks. Another economic salve to be suggested at Supercomm...
[June 3, 2003, 12:26]
KPNQwest collapse shakes European Internet
News Thu 13 Jun: The bankrupt network company is beginning to lose track of the data its fibre-optic network is supposed to be delivering Mon 10 Jun: Administrators give KPNQwest customers until midday on Tuesday to attempt to keep Europe's largest...
[June 11, 2002, 16:08]
KPNQwest funding deadline looms
News Customers now have until midday on Tuesday to pay their bills, which may or may not keep Europe's largest fibre-optic network alive for a bit longer. KPNQwest runs Europe's largest fibre-optic network, carrying one-quarter of the region's IP...
[June 10, 2002, 17:14]
Five years ago: Net set to get world's longest fibre cable
News The Internet prepared to go supernova as 90 telcos signed an agreement in Singapore to build the world's longest, highest-capacity submarine fibre optic cable network. The scheme follows the $1.5 billion Nynex-led FLAG fibre optic cable, linking...
[January 18, 2002, 6:31]
Why can't other towns do the same
Talkback What kind of business model for fincancing the fibre-optic network are they using? There are tens of small businesses in our small town which need fibre-optics based connections for their offices. Would be interesting to know whether this can be...
[February 4, 2009, 12:54]
SDH Telecommunications Standard
White Papers It's based on overlaying a synchronous multiplexed signal onto a light stream transmitted over fibre-optic cable. SDH was first introduced into the telecommunications network in 1992 and has been deployed at rapid rates since then.
[November 1, 2004, 2:00]
The battles of community broadband
News Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, it is hatching plans to lay out its own state-of-the-art fibre-optic broadband network. Then there's the string of cities hugging Utah's Great Salt Lake that have begun constructing a fibre-optic network.
[May 9, 2005, 18:35]
South West England to power up business broadband
News Ethernet will be offered alongside Surf's existing SDH fibre optic services. Surf Telecoms, the telecoms division of utility company Western Power Distribution, is offering broadband to businesses in the Southwest of Britain thanks to a deal with...
[October 31, 2002, 9:40]
