Zayo Achieves Record-breaking 1 Tb/s Transmission on Live North American Network with Infinera’s ICE7 Coherent Optical Solution
Zayo Achieves Record-breaking 1 Tb/s Transmission on Live North American Network with Infinera’s ICE7 Coherent Optical Solution Denver, Colo. and San Jose, Calif. – February 18, 2025 – Zayo and Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today the successful completion of a live network trial using Infinera’s ICE7, a seventh-generation embedded optical engine, to deliver 1 Tb/s single 150GHz wavelength transmission over 1,391 kilometers (km) on a major North American route between Sacramento, CA and...
Telenor Denmark launches market-leading “TrueTalk” solution for B2B customers – powered by Gintel
Trondheim, Norway, 18 February 2025. Gintel AS, a leading provider of B2B solutions for operators, is excited to announce the launch of TrueTalk, an innovative communications solution for all sizes of business, by Telenor Denmark. TrueTalk – powered by Gintel’s Cloud PBX solution – is an innovative new service that offers enriched call management capabilities to businesses in Denmark. The service — available as a subscription-based upgrade to existing Telenor Business airtime and connectivity...
Airtel lands the SEA-ME-WE-6 cable in Chennai (India)
Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, landed the new SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6, or SMW6) in Chennai. The company had already landed the cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024. These cable landings were completed by SubCom, a leading supplier of subsea fiber optic cable data systems responsible for the engineering, manufacture and installation of SEA-ME-WE-6. The 21,700 Rkm submarine cable system connects India...
Two-thirds of UK businesses still failing on cyber security
More than two-thirds of UK businesses face an unnecessarily high risk of having their data, including commercially sensitive and personal information, intercepted by hackers because they are not following best practices for securing data on their networks, according to a report from Beaming, an internet service provider for businesses. Beaming’s report, Network Transformation – A Guide for IT Directors, draws on a survey of UK businesses conducted by research consultancy Censuswide. It shows...
Neterra Enhances Its Customer Service Monitoring System
Neterra has significantly improved its connectivity service monitoring system by expanding its global network of monitoring points. The company has implemented a new monitoring system that provides clearer visibility into off-net services and enables more effective diagnostics and maintenance. “In some regions, we provide connectivity services like ‘Dedicated Internet’ through various third-party providers, which we cannot manage directly. This creates challenges in identifying...
Hyperscalers: Seizing the reins of the submarine cable industry
News Content giants like Meta and Google are increasingly building their own submarine cable infrastructure, forgoing traditional partnerships with telcos Hyperscalers like Google and Meta have long played a key role in the submarine cable industry, typically serving as major partners in cable consortiums alongside telcos and other infrastructure players. In recent years, however, their modus operandi has changed. Today, instead of partnering with traditional carriers for cable projects, these...
ISP WightFibre Extend FTTP Broadband to 88 Percent of Isle of Wight
Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), recently published their latest annual results to 30th September 2024 and revealed that their full fibre network now covered 88% of island premises (up from 80% in June 2024). The operator currently expects to have invested around £110m by 2030 as part of their ongoing “Gigabit Island” project, which is presently aiming to...
London Broadband ISP Community Fibre Back Online After Outage
Customers of broadband ISP CommunityFibre appear to be coming back online after the operator suffered a sizeable network outage in London today, which has been disrupting internet connectivity for thousands of users over the past few hours (since just after 11:30am this morning). The cause of the problem is not yet known, although it seemed to be linked to the provider’s Domain Name System (DNS) as a number of customers were able to resolve the outage by switching to third-party DNS servers,...
Broadband ISP Grain to Expand its Bradford Full Fibre Network
Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has announced that they’re going to expand the coverage of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK broadband network in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Bradford, although the details of their expansion remain unclear. Grain’s network currently covers over 220,000 UK premises and connects 30,000 customers. The deployment they have in Bradford is currently limited to three large areas across the western side of...
Broadband Outage in St Neots After Thieves Steal Openreach Cable
Broadband, phone and Ethernet services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots have been disrupted after criminals ripped up and stole around 500 metres worth of Openreach’s (BT) copper telecoms cable, which has impacted four of their fibre street cabinets in the area – serving premises with around 380 customers. The incident, which occurred on a bridge to the south of the town (A428), appears to have happened at around 3am on Friday (14th Feb) morning. Openreach’s engineers have been...