Google recently funded the construction of a 10,000 km fiber optic cable from California to Chile to promote improved cloud technology infrastructure. Dubbed as project “Curie,” the massive optical fiber pipeline links the Equinix LA4 data center in Los Angeles to the Chilean port city of Valparaiso. From there, it will connect to Google’s data center in Quilicura near Santiago. The campus is currently undergoing a US$140 million renovation.
650 IT leaders from global enterprises weighed in on what’s working and what’s not. The research shows that the vast majority (97%) of companies are currently undertaking or planning to undertake digital transformation initiatives. Nine out of 10 IT leaders believe if they don’t complete those initiatives, their companies will lose revenue. Download the report.
Last chance to nominate a #FTTx Visionary for the 2019 FTTxcellence Award! Tell us about an individual pushing FTTx forward at your company or in your community. Form closes 5/6. The Awards are sponsored by Corning Incorporated and Lightwave Magazine. We’re looking to honor someone who has shown vision in the use of FTTx technology – fiber to the node, fiber to the curb or cabinet, fiber to the distribution point, and particularly fiber to the home. If you know someone who has demonstrated leadership, attacked problems, and/or overcome obstacles to deploy fiber-optic access technology, we urge you to nominate them today!
There’s a lot of hype about municipalities using smart infrastructure to solve problems from air quality and temperature monitoring, to everyday traffic. But the epicenter of smart technology doesn’t originate at the city; rather it’s airports that have always been the first to embrace technologies necessary for operating efficiently, meeting passenger requirements and providing for traveler safety.
Vertiv and 451 Research, have unveiled the findings from its report that delves into the state of 5G, ‘Industry Hopes and Fears: From Energy Costs to Edge Computing Transformation’, is based on the results from a survey of more than 100 global telecom decision makers with visibility into 5G and edge strategies and plans. According to Vertiv, respondents were ‘overwhelmingly’ optimistic about the 5G business outlook and are investing aggressively into deployment plans. Just 12 percent of operators expect to be rolling out 5G services before the end of the year, while 86 percent expect to be delivering by 2021.
US Ignite, in conjunction with Amazon Web Services and Kauffman FastTrac, has announced a Smart City Startup Accelerator program to guide developers through the process of developing a cloud-based business or service dedicated to addressing challenges in the modern, connected city. Program participants will gain access to an eight-week online training course through Kauffman FastTrac, as well as benefits that include up to $10,000 in AWS credits, and the opportunity to connect with Amazon mentors. Participants will also present their business strategies at a final event this September at Amazon offices in Washington, DC.
This is the year of smart technologies, as real estate players seek to put their money where their mouth is and implement the principles of real estate-as-a-service that the industry has widely bought into. There are many ways this goal can be achieved, from the deployment of sensors and the intelligent analytics that go with it, to customer experience platforms that span use cases and asset classes.
Current 40 and 100 gigabit (Gb/s) multimode fiber applications, as well as future 200 and 400 Gb/s multimode and singlemode applications, are based on 8 optical fibers with 4 fibers transmitting and 4 receiving at either 10 Gb/s or 25 Gb/s. Siemon’s Base 8 Plug-and-Play Fiber Systems, part of Siemon’s Lighthouse™ Advanced Fiber Cabling Solutions, provides the simplest, most seamless transition from duplex 10 Gb/s to current and future 8-fiber applications to 400 Gig.
An experiment on existing transatlantic fiber has achieved a record fiber optic cable capacity of 26.2 Tbps across more than 6,000 km of the Marea transatlantic fiber optic cable – the average transfer rate of the Marea cable is 9.5 Tbps. Infinera explains this data rate was obtained using WDM, implementing “multiple wavelengths on a single optical chip, so that we could squeeze the individual wavelengths closer together, and get more wavelengths on the fiber,” and making “each wavelengths is transmitted as a set of subcarriers that also allows tighter spacing.” The increase should help meet the growing needs for internet and cloud services.
Winners of the Leading Lights award will be announced tonight. Check out the 11 shortlisted entries in this year’s category for Most Innovative Telecoms Product (Optical/IP/Carrier Ethernet/FTTH).
