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S'pore says NBN will stay competitive
News Tight regulation will ensure players on Singapore's next-generation broadband network will strive to be competitive, assures local telecoms regulator.
Tags: Video, Bandwidth, Next-generation technology/networks, Starhub, Next-generation Broadband Network, Nucleus Connect, OpCo, SingTel, CEO, network
OpenNet appoints OSS/BSS SI
News Singapore's next-generation broadband network consortium picks systems integrator for its operations support systems/ business support systems.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Personal broadband, Business broadband, Alcatel, Fiber, BSS, Fiber Network, Lucent Technologies Inc., systems integrator, network company
Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent to manage S'pore NBN
News update Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent will run Singapore national broadband network's "active infrastructure" by its operating company, Nucleus Connect.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Optical networking, Alcatel, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Fiber, BSS, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Broadband, Lucent Technologies Inc.
Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
News Intel won't promise when its optical communication technology will arrive. But a fiber-optic company allied with the chipmaker says cables will be done early in 2010.
Tags: Components, Optical networking, R&D, Intel Corp., Computer, optical networking, Fiber-optics, network, Light Peak, Foci
Will Intel and USB make fiber optics mainstream?
News Chipmaker hopes its Light Peak project will bring fiber optic speeds to ordinary computer users, and USB could be logical path to get there.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Connector, Fiber-optics, Fiber, Video, Storage, USB, Cable, USB 2.0
First Singapore home gets next-gen fiber
News First home gets wired up to fiber infrastructure, as Singapore inches closer to its planned next-generation national broadband network.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Fiber, Singapore, Worker, FTTH, CEO, network, service provider
Global fixed broadband connections up
News Some 422 million households will be wired up by 2009, with Asian markets such as South Korea and Hong Kong, among most connected, new report reveals.
Tags: Personal broadband, Fiber, Gartner Inc., Broadband, South Korea, FTTH, China, Internet, broadband service, DSL
Older data centers 'capable' for cloud, too
News New data centers are being optimized for cloud computing but older facilities are capable and may need only minor tweaking, according to industry player.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, LANs and WANs, Servers, Yahoo! Inc., network, Asia, Fiber, Savvis Communications, Singapore
UK makes its broadband splash
News U.K. government lays out its vision for digital future of Britain over coming years, covering topics such as broadband access, security, ICT literacy and copyright enforcement.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, Taxes, Universal Service, Public Service, U.K., liberalization, mobile network, fiber, Business broadband
BT to expand 2010 fiber rollout
News The U.K. telco plans to double the rate of its next generation broadband fiber rollout, to help it safeguard jobs.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, British Telecommunications, Fiber, Broadband, performance, job, U.K., network, telecommunications company, spokeswoman
Intel makes quantum leap in fiber optic detectors
News The company has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that can cut the cost of fiber-optic communications to a fraction of their current value.
Tags: Processors, Video, Intel Corp., Fiber-optics, Fiber, Device, Photonics, Fiber-optic Communication, DARPA, Mario Paniccia
Service restored in Silicon Valley after fiber cut
News AT&T said that service is back up in the San Jose, Calif., area after four of the company's four fiber-optic cables there were cut last week.
Tags: Cable, Twitter, Sprint Communications, Fiber, landline phone, Wireless, Cable, phone, AT&T Corp., network
Asia's wireless network to go next-gen by 2012
News Half of projected 3 million base stations and 1.8 million cell sites in Asia-Pacific will connect to fiber through carrier Ethernet, says IDC.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, Mobile/Wireless, Base Station, Mobile, Fiber, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Wireless, Wireless Network
Still no universal broadband access in Thailand
News More fiber networks will be rolled out to the well-to-do this year, but lack of government subsidy and strategy will prevent cheap connectivity to the masses, says Ovum.
Tags: Cable, DSL, 3G (Third Generation), Network infrastructure, Alcatel, Ovum, India, Fiber, Telecommunications, Thailand
Ericsson claims 500Mbps speeds over copper
News The communications company says it has demonstrated speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper infrastructure, using a new technology called 'vectorized' VDSL2.
Tags: DSL, Mobile, British Telecommunications, Fiber, Telecommunications, Cable, DSL, VDSL2, U.K., Internet Service Provider
