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'Opto-chip' could revolutionise telecommunications
News These so-called optical chips are in fact polymeric electro-optic modulators designed to act as a bridge between fibre optic cables and existing electronic devices. While networking companies have been pushing the levels of data that can be sent...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
BT moves closer to universal broadband
News In other cases, it's because they are connected to their local exchange by legacy fibre-optic cables known as TPON (Telephony over Passive Optical Networks). Trials in rural Yorkshire and Northern Ireland will put broadband DSLAM equipment into...
[September 13, 2005, 18:05]
Cisco adopts iSCSI to aid SAN growth
News This specification allows data travelling on fibre-optic cables to hop onto the Internet if need be. Fibre-optic cables are the typical means of connection for data centres, but the longest of those cables stretches only about 30 miles.
[April 14, 2003, 16:03]
Sponge's fibres inspire high-tech cables
News Bell Labs researchers believe a deep-sea sponge holds clues to building better fibre-optic cables. Fibre-optic cables that communications companies use are very brittle, because they are created using extremely high heat.
[August 21, 2003, 10:15]
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. There is already much competition along this southeast Asia route, where...
[August 27, 2008, 11:29]
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
News The technique hinges on transmission of encrypted data in the "noise" of signals along fibre-optic cables. Their method take advantage of the fact fibre-optic systems inevitably have low levels of "noise" — the random jitters in the light waves...
[October 13, 2006, 16:00]
Intel's Light Peak aims to replace today's cables
News Intel on Wednesday unveiled technology called Light Peak that it hopes ultimately will replace the profusion of different cables sprouting from today's PCs with a single type of fibre-optic link. The company envisions Light Peak as a replacement...
[September 24, 2009, 9:44]
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]
650 UK jobs go in Alcatel cutbacks
News Corning, the world's biggest manufacturer of fibre-optic cables, blamed falling demand for the closure. Around 650 jobs will be lost from the plant, which manufactures underwater cables. The jobs will be lost from Alcatel's undersea and optical...
[October 4, 2001, 16:38]
Critics carp at Cisco; Chambers shrugs
News The deals represent one of Cisco's most aggressive moves yet into the hot market for optical networking, which uses fibre-optic cables to transmit data, voice and video across phone and data networks.
[August 27, 1999, 8:47]
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]
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]
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]
London locals object to BT's fibre cabinets
News Fibre-to-the-cabinet technology involves sending fibre-optic cables as far as the street cabinet, then relying on existing copper connections to hook up local homes and businesses. BT's fibre-to-the-cabinet pilot in Muswell Hill has met with...
[August 10, 2009, 16:52]
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]
Lifeboat crew digs its own fibre broadband
News Spurn Point is getting fibre-optic connections to a radio station, with a microwave link to the mainland, Steenvoorden said. The fibre-based connectivity should go live within the next month — the fibre itself needs to be blown through the cables...
[August 18, 2009, 17:17]
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]
HP ProCurve Switch 8212zl review
Reviews Organisations can mix and match two types of 10-Gigabit modules for high-speed backbones, one supporting fibre optic cabling and the other for copper cables. The base price for a chassis without power supplies or modules for connecting network...
[December 18, 2007, 10:46]
Storage industry split over connections
News The industry has faced these knotty decisions before -- for example, whether to back mainframe, Unix or Windows servers, or whether to wire business with copper cables or fibre-optic lines. The iSCSI standard, meanwhile, is passing a critical step...
[November 27, 2001, 15:13]
Cable and wire-less
Blog And as you'll know by now, Egypt and India didn't 'fall off the Internet' -- although connectivity went way down with the rest of the world, the Internet within the affected areas was fine -- but one or two undersea fibre optic cables were cut.
[January 31, 2008, 10:15]
