Juniper Networks, announced that University of Tokyo, UTokyo, has selected Juniper’s AP32 Access Points to provide a seamlessly unified wireless experience across its campuses enabling flexible management. These networking upgrades will enable the multiple departments in UTokyo to deliver a high-speed wireless network infrastructure to its 48,000 students and faculty actively engaged in learning and […]

Single Pair Ethernet is a technology which is quickly gaining interest as a solution to support the large number of facilities management devices and sensors used in Smart Buildings. What are the benefits of a Single Pair Ethernet network and the standards developed? Single Pair Ethernet is the transmission of Ethernet over only one single […]

Describe your current job role and a summary of the business model of your organisation? Prem Rodrigues is the Director for the India, SAARC, Middle East, Africa region at Siemon, which is a global network infrastructure specialist. Prem’s role involves a close focus on profitability across the region and he is instrumental in spawning new […]

Vodafone Qatar has announced that, in collaboration with Nokia, it has powered Msheireb Smart City with cutting-edge fibre technology that delivers hyper speeds of up to 25 Gbps and will extend the collaboration to demonstrate speeds of up to 100 Gbps, using a Nokia Bell Labs prototype in the near future. With the roll-out of […]

Siemon, announced its new ultra-low-loss singlemode MTP cabling system exhibits considerable margin over IEEE 400 Gigabit channel limits as proven through third-party testing. Intertek Testing Services, a global leader in the testing, inspection, and certification of products, tested Siemon’s new singlemode ultra-low-loss MTP cabling system in IEEE 802.3bs 400GBASE-DR4 and IEEE 802.3cu 400GBASE-FR4 400 Gigabit […]

The need for higher data transmission speeds is swiftly increasing across the datacentre. Whilst 400 Gigabit speeds are gradually being adopted for uplinks between switch tiers to handle the growing amount of data, server connections are under increased pressure to keep up with e-commerce and emerging technologies. To support applications such as advanced data analytics, […]

Aqua Comms, a leading provider of global subsea connectivity services has announced the successful acquisition of Openbyte Infrastructure Private Limited, an India-based licensed telecom company focused on providing neutral, open-access landing solutions for submarine cables. Submarine cables form the bedrock of necessary international telecommunications and data infrastructure on which much of the modern economy runs […]

Panduit has extended the fibre capabilities of OneMode – its 1U rack-mounted device that offers a passive media converter to leverage legacy multimode fibre backbone and significantly increases bandwidth across fibre infrastructures. OneMode extends data reach out to 800m and up to 5000m, using a second device. The technology offers an inexpensive, quick-to-deploy solution to […]

A number of subsea cables are currently under construction in Africa. CEO, Corridor Africa, Matone Ditlhake, explores the benefits of subsea cables and how they can be used to embrace Digital Transformation. Subsea cable connectivity is the key to accelerating Digital Transformation in Africa. Google recently launched its U$1 billion Equiano cable, a connection between […]

Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) announced joining the new Africa-1 cable system consortium, strengthening Saudi Arabia’s connectivity with various locations across the Middle East, Africa and Europe through advanced connection capacities, new routes integrated with Mobily’s national networks across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and border link points with telecommunication networks in neighbouring countries. The new consortium encompasses Mobily, the only telecommunication company from […]