Fibre
News | 30 Apr 2024
UK altnet nexfibre passes 1 million homes with FTTP
The fibre network operator says it “is on track to become the second-largest competitive network in just its second year of operation”
Just 14 months since launching commercial services, fu
News | 08 Apr 2024
Ciena, Toshiba demo quantum-safe network
The quantum computing era and its upsides and downsides might still be years away, but the threat to communications network security set to be posed by cyber criminals armed with quantum computers is already being addressed by multiple telcos and vendors, with Ciena and Toshiba the latest to team up and show off their quantum-safe networking cap
News | 05 Apr 2024
Ofcom launches 2026 wholesale telecoms review to power-up gigabit broadband rollout
Ofcom has today kicked off its review of the regulations that will apply to the UK wholesale telecoms markets from April 2026
News | 04 Apr 2024
Zayo expands connectivity across Europe with new Waves on Demand service
Service offers customers dedicated 100G Wave routes across the continent in just five working days
News | 26 Mar 2024
How organisations are embracing optical
As a part of UKTIN’s Optical-themed month, we spoke to Francesco Poletti, an academic professor at the University of Southampton, where he co-founded a start-up called Lumenisity.
News | 21 Mar 2024
Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Richard Auld
Hello, I’m Richard Auld and I am a Director at SICOM, a network consultancy business that specialises in optical fibre solutions and infrastructure. Using “dark fibre”—a fibre that has not been lit and is private to the customer—we connect buildings.
News | 18 Mar 2024
Netomnia and YouFibre secure additional £147.5m
News | 15 Mar 2024
Altnets want tougher punishments for attacks on physical infrastructure
A group of altnets say lengthy prison sentences for deliberately causing damage to fibre networks should be wielded as a deterrent against vandalism.
News | 08 Mar 2024
Telecom is going quantum dotty
- Quantum dots tuned to C-Band telecoms frequencies will be compatible with existing fibre-optic telecoms networks
- This offers enormous potential for global quantum telecoms networks and the quantum internet of the future
- Tiny semiconductor particles can, according to their size, emit
News | 13 Feb 2024
CityFibre dominates latest UK Project Gigabit contract awards
- The UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit initiative is gathering pace
- It is providing network capital expenditure funding for fibre rollouts to rural and hard-to-reach areas and will enable 85% national coverage with gigabit broadband by 2025
- Contracts worth some £1.1bn have been allocated so f
News | 26 Jan 2024
SubOptic Foundation publishes Sustainable Subsea Networks Report
News | 08 Jan 2024
Sparkle launches GreenMed subsea cable in the Adriatic sea
News | 02 Jan 2024
Full-fibre broadband reaches more than 17 million UK homes
A record 17 million UK homes have access to full-fibre broadband, with 4.6 million now taking it up, according to Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations report.
News | 13 Dec 2023
Fujitsu and KDDI Research achieve multiband wavelength multiplexing transmission breakthrough
News | 20 Nov 2023
SoftBank completes all-optical network in core areas in Japan
News | 31 Oct 2023
SBRI Future Telecommunications Challenge: Everything you need to know
News | 25 Oct 2023