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It would seem that we can continue the graph for Neptunes Law for the moment, and that will give our engineers of the present and future time to create the next generation of submarine cable innovation.

Its clear that bandwidth demand will continue to increase exponentially. Optical transport capacity must scale to meet this demand, while at the same time the cost-per- bit must decrease, and optical transport equipment must become more space- and power-efficient.

The next 50 years of optical communications will most likely be dedicated to addressing key fundamental challenges to make the optical expansion more efficient and practical, and to make these predictions even riskier (and more fun).

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: Fastweb taps Amdocs for network inventory upgrade; MTN seeks $5 billion valuation of mobile money unit ahead of stake sale; A1 Telekom Austria brings your package inside. Telecom Italia (TIM) is congratulating itself on completing its fiber rollout in the north-east Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, using a mix of FTTC, FTTH, FWA and satellite technologies. Those households and businesses connected to FTTH will enjoy downlink speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s...

Orange Poland has announced a partnership with Dutch pension fund APG that aims to speed the rollout and reduce the cost of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network throughout the country. The operator, which is majority owned by France-based Orange, said it has created a 50:50 joint venture called FiberCo with APG, which is the asset management division of ABP. The new JV will take over 2.4 million connections, including 1.7 million households that are set to be passed by the network in the next ...

News Analysis Robert Clark 4/12/2021 The Biden Administrations $100 billion broadband plan marks the end of an era. Since telecom reform began in the mid-80s with the breakup of the old AT&T its been big telecom that has driven the industry, constrained by no more than light-touch regulation. Thats been the case not just in the US but across the OECD and much of the developing world. The new Biden plan, hazy as it still is, drives the last nail in...

A convergence of technology innovations is giving rise to a new concept of "routed optical networking" in which Layer 3 becomes the switching layer across a DWDM transport layer. The key advances are the commercialization of 400Gbps pluggable coherent optics, the emergence of multi-terabit network processing units (NPUs) for routers, and continuing advances in telemetry and software automation for IP networks. While sharing some of the same heritage, the new routed optical network is not your f...

US cable operators and other wired broadband service providers likely wont have to fret too much about SpaceXs Starlink in the coming years. But the emerging satellite broadband service is poised to play a significant role in providing service in rural US areas alongside opportunities in the much larger global market, according to one analyst study. "We have no trouble imagining Starlink as a potential game-changer for helping to bridge the digital divide in the US," Craig Moffett, analyst wit...

Its been several months in the making, but FiberCop, Italys last-mile network grid, has finally moved into the operational stage with an enterprise value of €7.7 billion (US$9 billion). Telecom Italia (TIM) announced the completion of shareholder agreements with KKR Infrastructure and Swisscom-owned Fastweb, meaning that KKR has acquired a 37.5% stake at a value of around €1.8 billion ($2.1 billion). Fastweb has also transferred its 20% stake in FlashFiber, its joint venture with TIM (which ...

Podcast: The Divide – Fiber Broadband Associations Gary Bolton on the good news, good news for fiber 4/1/2021 On this episode of The Divide, we hear from Gary Bolton, President and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association: an organization of over 350 companies focused on delivering an all-fiber broadband network across the Americas. As the head of the Fiber Broadband Association, Gary is unsurprisingly pretty optimistic about fibers potential and progress. We discuss why he says the ...