At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit (HAS) 2019, the Next Generation Optical Transport Network Forum (NGOF) officially launched its five-star criteria for premium private lines.
A recent announcement of network expansion in Indonesia is a reminder of the continuing concern, on the part of both vendors and operators, with being 5G-ready.
Fibre rollout continues, but how do operators deal with the tricky business of bringing fibre to nations made up of many islands? Recent announcements from Indonesia and the Maldives may help to answer this question.
It’s perhaps no surprise that China, Japan and South Korea hold the top positions in APAC for homes passed by FTTH networks in a new market report. But the reach of fibre is also growing in places like the Philippines and Bangladesh.
ECI has won a contract with CEB FibreNet - a subsidiary of the Central Electricity Board in Mauritius - to expand and leverage its existing fibre optic network coverage.
Nokia has deployed 100G in Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited's (PTCL) network to enhance the capacity and speed of its optical network for both domestic and international traffic.
The development of bandwidth-driven transport networks faces severe challenges. In this article Richard Jin examines how these can be successfully overcome by network operators.
Indian wireless operator Jio, in partnership with Ciena, has taken another major step in future-proofing its national transport network with ‘Transport SDN’ capabilities.
PT XL Axiata and Huawei have announced the building of a next-generation all-optical network in Indonesia to embrace the 5G era.
Ericsson and Telefónica have penned a new four-to-six-year managed services deal for AI-powered network operations in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Uruguay. The agreement also covers the UK.
Telserv and Etisalat have formed a strategic partnership to further enhance portfolios of both parties to serve customers around the world.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development and testing of telco cloud solutions has been signed between Kazakhtelecom and Cisco in Barcelona during the MWC 2019 event.
MainOne has announced a metro fibre infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria, with support from Facebook. The infrastructure collaboration is part of Facebook’s efforts to connect more people to broadband internet.
India’s Bharti Airtel is deploying Ciena’s coherent optical and intelligent software platforms to build one of the world’s largest photonic control plane networks.
Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded contracts worth €50 million to the Prysmian Group to develop a turnkey repeater-less submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.
Vodafone Idea Business Services (VIBS), the enterprise arm of Indian telco Vodafone Idea Ltd, is partnering with Genus Power Infra to establish commercial scale POC (Proof of Concept) of NB-IoT networks.
Mobile networks and broadband access services for business and consumer customers operated by Digicel Tonga have been restored across the Polynesian archipelago by SES Networks' managed services following a severe fibre outage last week.
Developing Telecoms recently spoke with Mr Wang Qingwen, President of Huawei WTTx product line, about Huawei’s new Wireless Fiber.
Colt Technology Services is expanding the Colt IQ Network in Central and Eastern Europe, enabling digital transformation in the region through agile, on-demand and high bandwidth services.
Brazilian telecommunications company Tely has deployed Infinera’s Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform.
Bharti Airtel has expressed a willingness to set up a joint venture with Vodafone Idea that would own and operate the two firms’ pooled fibre assets.
Angola Cables has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Broadband Infraco, a provider of regional long-distance network coverage and SADC connectivity.
Indonesia’s government has made a commitment to ensure telecommunications and broadband access for the country’s fast growing population of 267 million people.
According to recent statistics, over 4 billion people still lack internet access, or at best, a sufficiently reliable connection.
Angola Cables has entered into a strategic business partnership with Silica Networks in Argentina and Silica Networks in Chile to connect their terrestrial fibre networks to the recently commissioned South Atlantic Cable System (SACS).
Polish operator Netia is deploying Nokia’s Unified Cable Access solution to significantly increase the network capacity needed to support surging bandwidth demands.
Digicel has appointed Deep Blue Cable as a specialist supporting the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP), a multi-million dollar, 15-year ICT contract with the Governments of the Caribbean nations of Saint Lucia, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company Limited (SISCC) has commissioned four new modular cable landing stations from XSite Modular.
Millicom, the international telecommunications and media company that offers digital services to customers in a number of countries in Africa and Latin America, has announced the expansion of its cable business with the acquisition of a controlling 80% stake in Cable Onda, the largest cable and fixed telecommunications services provider in Panama.
Digicel has certainly come a long way since it was an upstart operator entering the Jamaican market in 2001.
There’s been much excitement over the recent news that the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is ready for commercial service, but another important undersea cable connectivity project involving Africa is also about to make history.
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is now on-stream and open for commercial traffic.
Nexans has manufactured and tested 6,000 km of submarine fibre optic cables for the South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) project connecting Cameroon to Brazil, enabling a faster and more stable Internet connection between Africa and South America.
Orange is providing significant investment to MainOne’s West Africa submarine cable system.
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