Nick Wood

1 week ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

82 kilometres, in fact. That's the distance at which its T-Labs unit, together with quantum networking hardware provider Qunnect, was able to dynamically route so-called polarisation-entangled photons, or qubits, over multiple paths at fidelities of more than 92% in parallel with traditional data traffic.

2 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

British CSPs have sent a letter to their suppliers asking if they wouldn't mind agreeing to a new environmental code of conduct. It originates from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), which advises the government with regards to provisioning digital connectivity (funnily enough). The letter has nine service provider signatories – AllPointsFibre, BT, CityFibre, Openreach, PlatformX Communications (PXC), Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), Vodafone – plus Swedish kit maker Ericsson.

3 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

This is according to TD Cowen analysts cited by Bloomberg, who said the now-scrapped facilities would have amounted to around 2 Gigawatts (GW) of capacity had they gone ahead. That's a lot when you consider that – according to Dgtl Infra – a typical large data centre usually weighs in at 20-100 Megawatts (MW). The development comes just a month after another TD Cowen note said that Microsoft had cancelled data centre leases in the US totalling around 200 MW.

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

With the country in the midst of a somewhat abortive attempt to completely migrate from PSTN to VoIP, telcos are working overtime to assure vulnerable customers they will still be able to communicate when the mains electricity is on the blink. As per Ofcom rules, service providers already offer rudimentary backup battery units (BBUs) free of charge to eligible customers, and these can keep them connected for at least an hour – the minimum length of time mandated by the watchdog.

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

Finnish kit maker Nokia has won a deal to overhaul and expand Vodafone Idea (Vi)'s backhaul infrastructure. It's a three-year contract that will see Vi roll out Nokia's 7750 service router (SR), and its 7250 interconnect router (IXR).