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BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Fibre broadband comes in two flavours: FTTC, where optical cable is laid as far as the curbside cabinet, with existing copper lines being used for the last mile; and fibre to the home (FTTH), where optical... [05 Nov 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News As well as rolling out FTTH, where fibre optic cable is laid all the way to a user's premises, BT is deploying fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where cabling only reaches to the street cabinet. BT has revealed more details... [02 Oct 2009]
Enabling IPTV: What's Needed in the Access Network
White Paper Service providers around the globe have begun commercializing triple play services to better compete with cable and satellite operators. While this is helping boost Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), it is placing... [02 Oct 2009]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Leveraging Broadband Stimulus for IPTV Services in Lower-Density Markets
White Paper IP video is a key component for serving communities, and IPTV, in particular, represents essential next-generation services which open up valuable revenue opportunities - and help service providers compete more effectively with... [02 Oct 2009]
Power and Cooling Considerations for Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)
White Paper Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) can cut costs by enabling, for the first time, the deployment of a single Ethernet cable for simultaneous access to both power and data. However, lack of a power and cooling plan to support the... [01 Oct 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Timms added that while some next-gen broadband services are already available in the UK - such as Virgin Media's cable broadband service, which offers speeds up to 50Mbps where available - it is important the government... [23 Sep 2009]
National Cable Communications Provider
White Paper As communications companies expand their offerings beyond traditional services, a leading multi-service broadband communications provider needed to adjust its marketing strategies to compete in new highly competitive markets. [01 Sep 2009]
A Wide-Tracking Range Clock and Data Recovery Circuit
White Paper The transmitter sends the data to the receiver over a channel, typically a printed circuit board trace or a co-axial cable. SCALING of CMOS technology has progressed relentlessly for the past several decades and brought... [29 Aug 2009]
Calculating Fiber Loss and Distances
White Paper Understanding factors such as fiber modes, fiber launch power, receive sensitivity, fiber cable attenuation, and fiber budgets will make your fiber networking installation projects run much smoother and more efficiently. [27 Aug 2009]
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo The retinal implant receives a signal via wireless transmission, encodes it into specific patterns of stimulation pulses that are conducted through a cable to the electrode array that stimulates the retina. [21 Aug 2009]
BT rolls out superfast broadband even faster in one UK city
News Virgin Media currently covers half the UK population with a hybrid fibre-cable service, capable of download speeds up to 50Mbps. BT has sped up the rollout of superfast broadband in one of the UK's major cities. [17 Aug 2009]
A Path to Ultra Broadband: Motorola Cable PON
White Paper Cable operators are increasingly competing with telecommunications carriers, and the winners in the long-term will be those service providers that build the infrastructure capacity to deliver Ultra-Broadband services. [15 Aug 2009]
Delivering High-Speed Wireless Commercial Services With Canopy Cable
White Paper Wireless commercial services present tremendous opportunities for cable operators to increase revenues while building long-term bonds with business customers. Cable operators often face the fundamental... [15 Aug 2009]
Cabling the Dell PowerEdge T610
White Paper This white paper describes recommended cable routing procedures, both with and without the optional Cable Management Arm (CMA) for the Dell PowerEdge T610 in the following racks like PowerEdge 4210,... [15 Aug 2009]
Transformation of the Enterprise Network Using Passive Optical LAN
White Paper Incumbent vendors are recommending upgrading Ethernet switches to 10 Giga-bit Ethernet (GbE) uplinks which typically require single-mode rather than multimode fiber optic cable and replacement of lateral CAT 5... [15 Aug 2009]