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Fibre Optic To Dominate EU Broadband Market By 2010
News ADSL is only a transitory technology that will be overtaken by fibre optic solutions within 10 years, according to the European Commission. ADSL will make up 28 percent of the home surfing market -- down from its peak of 37 percent -- with 20...
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
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]
BT Fixing Fibre-optic Broadband Problem
Talkback hi, i am 1 of the unlucky 1's how has the fibre optic problem i live in kingswells aberdeen, when i first connected with plusnet they told me i would receive 2meg but on my connection day NOTHING so 2 engineers and 39 days later i got my broadband...
[April 21, 2006, 15:27]
The Day Ahead: Ciena, Sycamore Stoke Fibre Optic Love Affair
News Not to be outdone by Ciena, Sycamore Networks, which also makes fibre optic networking gear, checked in with third quarter earnings of a nickel a share, excluding charges. Ciena makes dense-wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems for use...
[May 19, 2000, 11:25]
BT Fixing Fibre-optic Broadband Problem
Talkback 3 years on and BT still has done nothing about this we still have no copper overlay despite 3,000 of us signing a petition. BT's response we have no obligation to provide the customer with broadband
[April 10, 2006, 21:20]
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]
Baby Bell Collaboration Helps Home Fibre
News BellSouth, SBC Communications and Verizon are reaching new levels of cooperation as they begin building fibre-optic networks directly to homes and offices. On Thursday, the three telephone companies announced they have agreed to use the same types...
[May 30, 2003, 10:29]
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]
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]
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]
The Day Ahead: Oplink IPO Set To Soar, But Beware
News Commentary: The success of the Oplink Communications initial public offering is a given -- fibre optic companies dominate the top IPOs so far this year. Many fibre optic companies rely on a handful of big customers to prop up lofty market...
[October 4, 2000, 12:51]
Ofcom Pours Cold Water On Fibre In The Local Loop
News Fibre-optic networks deliver far higher bandwidth to customers than DSL can. BT has trialled fibre in the local loop, and this week said it would connect all the houses in a new housing estate in Kent with fibre-optic connections.
[February 9, 2007, 12:28]
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]
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]
Xerox Chip Makes Fibre Cheaper
News Researchers at Xerox's Wilson Centre for Research and Technology announced on Wednesday that they have created a silicon chip about the size of a fingertip that contains switches and waveguides for fibre-optic communication.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
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]
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]
Laser Startup Garners $50m In Funding
News AirFiber is one of a handful of companies developing "free space" optical hardware, which transmits information over fibre-optic lasers in the open air. Without the need to dig up streets to lay fibre-optic wires, carrier customers are expected to...
[April 5, 2001, 14:09]
Intel Looks To Fibre-optics To Speed Chips
News The chipmaker recently launched a new effort inside its Microprocessor Research Lab aimed at examining a move from using aluminium and copper wires for moving data inside computers to using fibre-optic strands.
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
The Day Ahead: Corvis IPO Set To Soar On Promising Products
News Like many of its fellow fibre optic companies, Corvis can go from an idea to strong revenue to profits very quickly. Corvis' products could change the game for long distance, fibre optic communication networks and backbone networks.
[July 28, 2000, 12:38]
