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Legal Eye: Where are Europe's next-gen nets?
Comment Newer, alternative network providers who have already placed a strong onus on incorporating fibre optics into their business offerings could find themselves with a definite advantage over the established... [29 Oct 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News The spokesperson also pointed out that BT's fibre rollout would not reach all UK homes but added that Carphone Warehouse itself had "no plans at this moment to invest in fibre optics".... [17 Jul 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies. [09 May 2008]
Bog reel: Welsh company puts cables in the sewer
News Now, H2O Networks of North Wales has come up with a cost-effective way of laying fibre through the nation's sewerage system. H2O's Focus (fibre optical underground sewer system) system "is a fast and... [25 Apr 2006]
Photos: What's inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs
Photo This version was later binned - the fibre optics were considered too chunky and image definition was poor. Here, a later version swaps fibre optics for LEDs and cuts... [09 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP spam - it's coming
Comment This changed rapidly with the age of electronics, fibre optics, satellite and radio to see us transit a halcyon period around 20 years ago when all the developed regions of the world enjoyed unparalleled... [08 Sep 2004]
Fibre optics researchers are a bunch of spongers
News Bell Labs researchers believe a deep-sea sponge holds clues to building better fibre-optic cables. Fibre-optic cables that communications companies use are very brittle, because they are created using... [21 Aug 2003]
Intel's Barrett: This year, we'll be mostly doing chips...
News DSL (digital subscriber line) and home fibre optics are on the rise in Japan, Barrett said. Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and expand factory capacity. The chipmaker... [19 Feb 2003]
Ethernet promises cheaper broadband
News However, few people have the necessary fibre-optics to their home or office, and service providers have so far based their networks on the rival ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) protocol. The Ethernet... [27 Nov 2002]
"My mother will stop being ashamed of me because I am a CEO."
News There is decades' worth of fibre optics out there. "They are a company that builds really reliable products and has a reputation for service. They are also boring. Analyst Amy Wohl, who heads up US... [22 Nov 2002]
Bush advisor pours cold water on tech sector recovery hopes
News There is decades' worth of fibre optics out there," he said after the speech. Technology spending is likely to remain suppressed even once the overall economy starts to pick up, according to a senior US... [21 Nov 2002]
Bookham takes it on the chin
News The company, which supplies components for fibre optics networks turned in revenues of £2.1m for the last quarter of 2001 - a massive slump of 82 per cent on the £11.5m for the comparable quarter in 2000. [05 Feb 2002]
Lucent finds little cheer in the results season
News The results exclude the fibre optics business, which Lucent sold during the quarter. Including fibre optics, the group lost $423m, despite a $523m gain from the sale of... [22 Jan 2002]
Nortel axes 350 at Devon plant
News Nortel Networks announced it has axed 350 jobs at its fibre-optics plant in Devon. The move is part of the Canadian company's plans, announced earlier this year, to reduce its global workforce by 30,000. [01 Aug 2001]
Alcatel snaps up £82m Scottish fibre specialist
News As a result of the acquisition Alcatel Optronics, makers for active optics, gets hold of passive component technology which will help it build metropolitan fibre networks in Europe. French tech... [31 Jul 2001]
