Madeira plans to approach the European Union for funds to build a submarine fiber optic cable branch to connect the Telebras-IslaLink cable to the archipelago. Madeira is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal located in the southwest in the Atlantic ocean. Mr. Miguel Albuquerque, president of the autonomous region wants to get a branching from the submarine cable…

Market research firm Research and Markets has published a new report on business opportunities and the strategies that can help mobile network operators providing FTTx services apart from their mobile services in the Asia-Pacific region. The report titled “FTTx Networks and Services for Mobile Operators in Emerging Asia-Pacific: Assessing the Opportunity ” covers existing operators and emerging opportunities in the…

Speeds in data centers have maintained their growth in the past years and will continue to do so in a predictable future. High-data-rate systems have become increasingly popular among some enterprises for high-performance computing networks, such as 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) infrastructure, in which 40G fiber optic transceivers and cables are needed to ensure the high-performance and great-bandwidth of the…

The UK based Virgin Media revealed its plan to deploy high-speed broadband through fiber to the home networks to one million subscribers by 2020. The broadband service provider will connect at least 25 percent of the residential and business units that have already been covered by its fiber optic networks. Virgin Media is currently undertaking a £3 billion Project to…

The town of Amursk is now connected with fiber optic cables that bring high-speed broadband services to the residential and business subscribers, thanks to the deployment done by Rostelecom crews. Amursk is a town in the Khabarovsk region in Russia. Rostelecom has been busy in expanding its fiber optic networks to deliver high-speed broadband services all over Russia and Amursk…

While the expatriates working in the telecom sectors in Saudi Arabia is concerned about the nationalization of jobs to the locals, the second largest telecom operator, Mobily said they will reserve the jobs to the nationals following the instructions from the labor ministry. The Arab News today reported that the Mobily officials are in support of the Saudi Government’s strategy…