Government trial to install fibre cables in water pipes to accelerate rollout of broadband and mobile signals in hard to reach areas
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Government trial to install fibre cables in water pipes to accelerate rollout of broadband and mobile signals in hard to reach areas
Researchers in Japan have set a stunning data transmission speed record of 319Tbps, over a long distance of 3,001km or 1,864 miles
Official investigation to see if imports of fibre optic cables from China are being sold in Europe at artificially low prices
Quantum cryptography is being deployed to make intercepting communications on fibre networks all but impossible
Google is reportedly looking to make an investment in a new subsea cable in the Pacific Ocean
Intel to release new networking technology that will transfer data at speeds of up 800Gbps in each direction
IBM researchers send 64Gbps down a multi-mode optical fibre cable, so data centre owners have a few more years before they need to recable
A 8Tb/s optical network was set up in under 20 minutes
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Residents of Kansas City can now start receiving gigabit-speed Internet thanks to the Google Fibre Service
A 34,000 km submarine cable network linking five developing countries? Easy, says Andrew Mthembu of i3Africa
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will get superfast connection to each other and the United States
Three companies aim to use the North-West Passage for faster fibre cabling
Prototype optical chip transfers 1Tbps, and the secret's in the holes, says IBM
Cisco takeover is signal of intent as it makes second significant optical IT acquisition in two years
CommScope has shown 100GbE running on standard fibre at nearly three times the distance specified in the IEEE standard
Some Virgin Media customers in Scotland were briefly left without broadband when rats chewed cables
The first new transatlantic communications cable in nearly ten years is to be laid in the Atlantic ocean
Geo-location privacy issues are being investigated but IP address pinpointing will be harder to legislate for
The EU has given a green light for a new fibre optic network connecting residents to superfast broadband
Over 90 percent of homes in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are to get high 'ca-pasty' and superfast broadband, thanks to funding from BT and the EU
Residents of the Shetland Islands will be able to access high-speed broadband, following a cash injection from the European Regional Development Fund