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RSS fibreRacal signs 25-year deal with MCI WorldCom
News The company will use Racal Telecom's dark fibre capacity to link networks in an area bordered by Exeter, Glasgow and London. MCI WorldCom has signed a 25 year contract with Racal Telecom to supply the network... [07 Oct 1998]
MCI WorldCom pumps $800m into European network
News The company will expand its optical fibre network from 3,200km to 7,150km to provide extended coverage in the France, Germany and the UK. Dark fibre optical cabling has been leased from Racal Telecom on... [07 Oct 1998]
US firms test high-speed radio links
News The US-based companies claim they can deliver data at 45Mbps - three times faster than cable connections - providing an alternative to fibre-optic links. Teligent claims its point-to-multipoint systems use a central... [30 Sep 1998]
Italian telco sets out three-year strategy
News It hopes to have secured almost half the Italian Internet access market by then, supplying a projected three million ISDN lines and 20,000 fibre-optic and ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) connections. [28 Sep 1998]
Sweden benefits from Gigabit Ethernet network
News When it launches on 1 November it will provide voice over IP, video on demand and Lan (local area network) services over 80km of fibre optic cable and Packet Engines enterprise routing switches. He claimed that... [21 Sep 1998]
In brief: European telcos strengthen ties with joint network
News France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom are teaming up to create a pan-European high-speed fibre optic cable network at a cost of $600m. The link will run between 16 countries and is intended to support the increasing volume... [18 Sep 1998]
London firms offered high-speed data link
News Lord Young said, "The UK has more than £10bn invested in fibre-optic cabling, yet not all businesses are in locations where they can connect to the networks. Corporates, cable companies, Internet service providers (ISPs)... [16 Sep 1998]
Derailed train upstages Net debut of the Clinton report
News A derailed train in Atlanta created more disruption, as it cut through the national fibre-optic backbone. Web servers across the US came to a standstill on Friday afternoon, but not because of the publication of lewd... [14 Sep 1998]
In brief: Adaptec axes another 200 jobs
News The current round of redundancies will come from the company's fibre channel products and external storage solutions divisions. Storage company, Adaptec, is to cut 200 of its staff in a radical restructuring move. [11 Sep 1998]
In brief: Colt Telecom takes on Spanish market
News Colt Telecom today launched a digital fibre optic network to serve the main financial area of Madrid, Spain. The company's first customer is investment bank, Merrill Lynch which will gain high bandwidth ATM (asynchronous... [10 Sep 1998]
Transatlantic cable to speed data transfer
News It is made up of four pairs of fibre-optic cable and uses synchronous digital hierarchy and wave division multiplexing. A consortium of more than fifty telecoms companies - including AT&T, BT, Cable and Wireless,... [03 Sep 1998]
In brief: BT strives for Belgian breakthrough
News BT Belgium is hiring dark fibre from Belgian railway operator, SNCB, but will later lay its own lines. BT is increasing its efforts to break into the Belgian market by offering discounts of up to 20 per cent to business... [03 Sep 1998]
Nortel talks up future with Bay
News When asked which companies will be the 'new' Nortel's biggest rivals, Roth said Lucent would provide a challenge, but then broke down the rest of the field according to technologies: Alcatel and Fujitsu for fibre optics,... [02 Sep 1998]
Redstone launches UK phone network
News However, the three year old company has avoided rolling out complex and expensive network infrastructure by doing a deal with Fibernet, a company known for its high-speed fibre-optic data network. Redstone Telecom today... [02 Sep 1998]
Analysis: UK telemedicine finally gets into gear
Comment We need the government to invest more in fibre optic infrastructure and to provide a central IT strategy which the different NHS trusts can rely on," she said. Telemedicine has caught the political imagination this... [17 Aug 1998]
