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BT And Toshiba Showcase UK’s First Secure Quantum Communications

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

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