The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Wednesday decided to improve broadband in rural and remote areas. Stronger telecom services will help attract investment and fuel coordinated development, narrowing the gap between urban and rural ...
Tags: Telecom Services, Remote Areas
Huawei Marine Networks is looking to construct a Cameroon-Brazil Cable System (CBCS), connecting Africa to Latin America. The project is invested by CamTel, China Unicom and Telefónica, who will support the initiative by providing ...
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has signed a patent license agreement with Apple. Financial details have not been revealed. Meanwhile, Ericsson has estimated that its overall revenues from intellectual property rights this year ...
Tags: Ericsson, Apple, patent license
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 1 November 2015), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $321.1m, up 8% on $297m a year ago and up 2.3% on $314m last ...
Tags: Finisar, fiscal, Electronics
According to the statistics, the contract value of service outsourcing signed by Chinese enterprises reached US$71.65 billion in January-August, with an increase of 6.6% year on year and the executed contract value totaled US$45.58 billion, ...
CEA-Leti and its partners in the European FP7 project PLAT4M today announced they have built three silicon photonics platforms. The four-year project, which launched in 2013, aims at building a European-based supply chain in silicon ...
Tags: Leti, Silicon Photonics
Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $25m in a round of growth funding. Founded in 2001 by Dr Shimon Eckhouse and professor Shlomo Rushin of the School ...
Tags: Colorchip, Optical transceivers, PICs
Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France and its partners say that they have built three silicon photonics platforms, as they reach the mid-point of the four-year European Union Seventh Framework Program (EU FP7) project ...
Tags: Leti, silicon photonics, STMicroelectronics
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 15 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached total bandwidth of 1.611Tbps as of the end of third-quarter 2015, increasing 3.23% on quarter and 13.28% on year, according to the ...
Tags: Internet Bandwidth, Bandwidth
For the fifth consecutive year, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has ...
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Lighting Science Group (LSG), a global leader in superior lighting solutions that are environmentally-responsible and energy-efficient, has been chosen as a founding partner in the $200 million plan that will make Pakistan's largest urban ...
CSR announced that its CSRmesh® technology has been used by SK Telecom to enable the world’s first range of smart LED lightbulbs which also function as Bluetooth® Smart beacons networked together using CSRmesh. The intelligent ...
Tags: CSR, Smart LED Lighting, LED beacons
Whisper it softly, but, ten years since the telecom bubble burst, we may be about to witness another boom in sales of optical components for communications infrastructure. Analysts at Lightcounting, which specializes in forecasting the ...
Tags: photonic devices, telecom, datacom systems
Investment in 100G optical communications systems worldwide during 2013 was “breathtaking”, according to a new market report published today by Infonetics Research. Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at the company ...
In the optical communications markets, demand for 40G transceivers is now “ramping up hard” as data centers deploy 40GbE (Ethernet), particularly as a high-density 10G interface via breakout cables. Also, 40G QSFP (quad small ...
Tags: optical communications markets, transceiver, single-mode fiber