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The start of 2024 brought with it a slew of new subsea cable launches, and the end of 2023 closed in a similar fashion.

UKTIN spoke to Dr Andy G Sellars, Co-Chair of the Semiconductors Expert Working Group and Strategic Development Director at Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult to learn more.

1. For those who are new to semiconductors, please explain the basics. 

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

 Omdia’s latest Competitive Landscape Tool report reveals a downturn in the semiconductor industry, with revenue down 9% from $597.7

Ofcom has today kicked off its review of the regulations that will apply to the UK wholesale telecoms markets from April 2026

New research from Omdia has revealed that the global semiconductor supply chain is forecasted to reach approximately $600 billion by 2024, having navigated through strategic inventory adjustments in recent quarters.

Service offers customers dedicated 100G Wave routes across the continent in just five working days

Hello, I’m Dafne Cerdán and I am the Head of Marketing and Social Media at Weaver Labs, a Telecoms-software company building a blockchain-based network management tool to open up access to connectivity. I have experience working with a range of brands, including both start-ups and established companies.

By Ray Le Maistre

UKTIN member company, Finchetto, has been awarded £1m to develop the world’s first fully optical switch for telecoms networks.

A new digital infrastructure framework that fosters investment, innovation, and a harmonized digital market must be a priority in the next EU mandate

DSIT are pleased to announce the three winners of the Spectrum Sandbox competition. Each Sandbox project will test sharing of spectrum in Ofcom licensed Sandbox environments to indicate how regulation could be improved to maximise the use of this scarce resource and the benefits to the economy.

• Strategic multi-year partnership valued at up to $500 million over duration, deepening long-standing cooperation between the two companies.
• Enabling Intelsat to expand integration of LEO into its GEO assets to deliver unparalleled customer solutions.
• Leveraging

Regular analysis by connectivity experts FarrPoint evaluates connectivity preparedness across the four UK nations

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Written by Nick Wood

The UK's semiconductor research efforts will receive a boost after the government joined the EU's Chips Joint Undertaking (JU).

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. 
 

UKTIN spoke to Dave Happy and Dr. Greig Paul, Chair and Vice Chair of UKTIN’s Security Expert Working Group to learn more about its Future Capability Paper, which was published today.

Various efforts in the US from both sides of the political aisle to free up more mobile spectrum have gone down well in some quarters, but not so well in others.

And the picture remains gloomy into 2024.

New figures from Dell'Oro show a 5% year-on-year slide in the around US$100 billion market, a worse performance than it had expected, driven amongst other things by a slowdown in 5G and home broadband investments, as well as macroeconomic trends and the remains of a post-Covid hangover.

A study by Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications, has found that the total number of OTT (Over the Top) messages will increase from 120 billion in 2023 to over 175 billion in 2025; a substantial growth of over 70% in two y

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has announced a regulatory sandbox designed to support trials for direct to device satellite connectivity.

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. 

Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption.