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Fibre-optic firm H2O changes its name to i3
News H2O Networks, which installs fibre-optic cable in sewers for high-speed broadband, is changing its name to i3 Group. H2O Networks provides business networks using another fibre-optic technology, Darc (derestricted access route connections).
[January 29, 2009, 15:38]
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]
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. In some cases, the reason that fibre-optic cable was used was because of a problem...
[April 11, 2003, 14:39]
Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News ADSL will make up 28 percent of the home surfing market -- down from its peak of 37 percent -- with 20 percent of people using cable modems, and a total of around 33 percent connecting to fibre optic networks.
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News He added that photons leaking from the fibre-optic cable over longer distances mean data becomes corrupted, while single connections mean data can be lost if a cable is cut. Packages of data are sent down fibre-optic cables in the form of particles...
[October 13, 2008, 9:42]
Rural areas face long broadband delays
News Ferguson accepts that running miles of fibre-optic cable for backhaul can take time to organise, as can the building work that is needed at some exchanges. But according to insiders there are elements within the telco who don't believe ADSL rollout...
[April 13, 2004, 17:20]
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 Another economic salve to be suggested at Supercomm 2003 is an attempt to put the nation's networks of fibre-optic or copper wires to better use. Last Thursday, BellSouth, SBC and Verizon said they've agreed to use the same framework of fibre-optic...
[June 3, 2003, 12:26]
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]
Broadband vendors: Why can't we do it in the road?
Talkback Twisted pair cable can only carry limited speeds of data.a fibre optic installation will involve a lot of digging up and cost millions. well surely the future of broadband is wireless and does not involve digging up anything.
[July 6, 2004, 20:23]
Missed Opportunity? 4-Play
Talkback SURELY a virtual supplier called Virgin that Pimps its services over cable or any other infrastructure it can hire and is busy misleading the public with its cool fibre optic ads could grasp the opportunity and call this Four Play?
[July 17, 2008, 19:46]
SDH Telecommunications Standard
White Papers It's based on overlaying a synchronous multiplexed signal onto a light stream transmitted over fibre-optic cable. SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) is a standard for telecommunications transport formulated by the International Telecommunication...
[November 1, 2004, 2:00]
AT&T fires up transatlantic cable
News The TAT 12/13 is the world's longest undersea fibre optic cable at 12,400km, and can carry twice the data of current fibre cables, according to AT&T. AT&T owns a 20 per cent majority share in the undersea cable which was financed by over 75...
[October 2, 1996, 8:51]
Ofcom seeks to speed up UK fibre rollout
News The speed offered by fibre-optic cable — up to 100Mb — is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads.
[April 17, 2008, 8:43]
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
News The breakthrough comes from the ability to make the signal fainter than the noisy jitters in the fibre-optic cable. The technique hinges on transmission of encrypted data in the "noise" of signals along fibre-optic cables.
[October 13, 2006, 16:00]
Google helps lay submarine cables in Asia, Africa
News Google is again joining forces with foreign phone companies to help lay new undersea fibre-optic cables, bringing faster internet speeds to the far corners of the world. In addition to helping lay new fibre under the ocean in Asia, Google is also...
[August 27, 2008, 11:29]
Digital Britain report panned by Tories, experts
News The tax will benefit the biggest existing providers in the UK, according to Chris Smedley, chief executive of fibre-optic network company Geo. Just as importantly, the government will still levy rates on fibre once it's in use, perpetuating the...
[June 17, 2009, 16:09]
So what of Dark Fibre?
Talkback There are apparently miles and miles of 'dark fibre' this is fibre-optic cable that has been laid but not 'lit' or made active. Dark Fibre comes from telco's who built excess capacity into their networks because of the original costs involves of...
[January 14, 2009, 15:02]
Intel splits light to speed chips
News Earlier this year the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre announced they had developed fibre optic cable suitable for chip-to-chip communication. The ability to build a fast photonic (fibre optic) modulator from silicon could lead to...
[February 17, 2004, 9:30]
South West England to power up business broadband
News Ethernet will be offered alongside Surf's existing SDH fibre optic services. Surf Telecoms' 1400km fibre network is run along power cables as a separate cable or wrapped around the earth wire, a much cheaper option than laying fresh underground...
[October 31, 2002, 9:40]
