optical fibre
RSS optical fibreBT 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... [05 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox
Comment This didn't stack up - optical fibre to the hotel but only 1Mbps to my room? They are rolling out fibre everywhere and the target is 1Gbps to every home and office over the next few... [30 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from... [03 Jul 2009]
City traders move to the sewers
News Optical fibre network provider, Geo, has opened a new high-capacity network for financial trading organisations to carry out automated trades more efficiently. The use of optical... [07 May 2009]
Security makes a quantum leap
News Voice over IP and videoconferencing data is being transmitted over the network which uses existing optical fibre connections owned by tech giant Siemens. Packages of data are sent down... [10 Oct 2008]
Rubbish home broadband? BT has the answer...
News If BT was being more aggressive with rolling out optical fibre, which gives a big step change in broadband speeds, this announcement would be much less significant. BT may have been making a few noises... [01 Oct 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe
Comment So how much would it cost to get 'real broadband' deployed using optical fibre? F is for Fibre But unlike many other countries, while the UK government can't find any money to trigger a... [25 Sep 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street... [22 Aug 2008]
HP dishes out research grants to academic institutions
News According to HP, a number of projects will focus on the science of photonics, which has potential applications in optical fibre communications and could one day spell the death of copper connections in... [18 Aug 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its... [09 May 2008]
FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i V2 Release Notes
White Paper This release of the FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 (version B.11.23.0712) now supports online firmware updates, optical diagnostics, and enables the ns_query_ports... [03 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment This is already a very easy step for those countries that have already invested in optical fibre to the home. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. [17 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank
Comment Fast-forward to today and we have multiple fixed and mobile networks with twisted pair, coax, optical fibre, wi-fi, and WiMax providing telephone, TV and broadband connectivity, VoIP, quadruple service... [07 Feb 2008]
Leading Research Centre Launches Italy's First Ultra-Broadband Network for Grid Computing
White Paper The Nortel Optical Metro 5200 provides DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) 10 Gbps channels over fibre, for high-speed connectivity between research centres. The Consiglio Nazionale delle... [11 Jan 2008]
Providing Radio Spectrum for Broadband Wireless Access Services
White Paper Such networks also have the potential of reaching locations which would not be economically viable to be reached by copper and optical fibre networks. Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is a technology... [19 Oct 2007]
