Tag: Fiber

Retail Asia19/04/2017
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NEC and Netcracker Technology have successfully conducted a trial, in collaboration with K-Opticom, for a system combining NFV and 10G-EPON technologies. The companies said the trial verified for the first time ever that virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) can be successfully applied to 10Gbps Internet connections. K-Opticom provides telecommunications services based on its independent optical […]

Retail Asia25/11/2016
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PCCW’s HKT has revealed plans to build what it is calling a “fiber super highway” connecting the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate (TKOIE) with the Chai Wan area. The Ultra Express Link will be a 3km high-capacity, low-latency subsea cable system spanning the Junk Bay. The cable system has a target ready for service date […]

Retail Asia17/11/2016
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PCCW Global, the international operating division of Richard Li-owned HKT, has selected Djibouti Data Center (DDC) to facilitate network expansion and the provision of colocation and undersea fiber cable access services in East Africa. The Djibouti Data Center has been built to Tier III data center standards and serves as a major meeting point for […]

Retail Asia04/11/2016
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Singapore’s M1 has been selected as the Fibre Ready Scheme (FRS) partner for property developer Ascendas-Singbridge, and has completed the first commercial fiber upgrade installation under the deal. The companies have equipped seven-storey integrated business park Ascent with fiber, making the Singapore Science Park facility the first FRS-enabled building. M1 and Ascendas-Singbridge plan to install […]

Retail Asia24/10/2016
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Sri Lanka Telecom has secured a contract to build a fiber network connecting government offices in the nation. The operator has been selected to build the LGN2.0 (Lanka government network 2.0). As well as connecting government agencies and public institutions, the network will be used to provide free public Wi-Fi to citizens. The LGN2.0 project […]

Retail Asia29/09/2016
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Thailand’s top mobile operator AIS is gearing up to launch what it says will be the country’s fastest fiber broadband services. The operator aims to attract 300,000 users to its fiber service this year, increasing to 2 million by 2019. The operator first entered the fiber broadband fray in April and has already been shaking […]

Retail Asia22/09/2016
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Huawei Marine Networks has announced it has achieved another distance record over unrepeatered systems, achieving a transmission distance of 648.5km during a laboratory trial. During the trial in Beijing, Huawei used its self-developed enhanced raman amplifier (ERPC) and remote optical pump amplifier (ROPA) technology on a 100G channel over an ultra-low loss optical fiber, to […]

Retail Asia19/09/2016
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The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has committed to connect 2 million Filipino homes with high-speed internet access with a speed of at least 10Mbps and above by 2020. The operator plans to deploy fiber in 20,000 villages across the country to achieve this goal. “That will change a lot for families because families today are so […]

Retail Asia12/09/2016
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New Zealand fixed line operator Chorus has revealed plans to extend 1Gbps wholesale fiber services across its entire share of the Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) network from next month. The operator will make wholesale residential and SME broadband services available nationwide on any UFB connection within Chorus’ UFB rollout area. The UFB is New Zealand’s national […]

Retail Asia08/09/2016
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Singtel has revealed plans to extend its free unlimited out-of-home WiFi offer to new and existing fiber broadband customers. The operator has been providing Singtel WiFi services for free for the operator’s mobile customers, and has decided to expand access to the service based on its popularity with mobile subscribers. Fiber broadband subscribers will be […]

Retail Asia07/09/2016
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Myanmar wholesale telecoms infrastructure provider Golden 11 will deploy a hybrid power system from Flexenclosure to support the deployment of fiber transmission nodes in remote areas. Golden 11 constructs fiber networks, towers and data exchange facilities across the nation. The company will use Flexenclosure’s eSite technology to power and integrate the company’s fiber network where […]

Retail Asia19/08/2016
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Pakistan’s largest operator PTCL has secured a fiber leasing agreement with China Mobile’s Pakistani mobile unit Zong. Under the agreement, PTCL will deploy 789 kilometers of fiber for Zong’s mobile network. The fiber leasing agreement will also allow Zong to utilize PTCL’s nationwide fiber footprint, which will help the operator further expand its 3G and […]

Retail Asia17/05/2016
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Globe Telecom has entered a collaboration with the city government of Manila to roll out fiber broadband technology in Binondo. This initiative will provide internet connectivity with speeds of up to 1Gbps to the world’s oldest Chinatown. Early this year, Globe made a call for local governments’ support for its initiative to build on its […]

Retail Asia16/05/2016
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Nepal Telecom has revealed it has completed a project to lay fiber at the Nepal-China border, paving the way for an interconnection with China Telecom. The company has deployed fiber from Kathmandu to the Rasuwagadhi border point via two other Nepalese districts. The deployment uses all-dielectric self-supporting (ADSS) technology, which allows fiber to be deployed without […]

Retail Asia11/05/2015
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President Joko Widodo on Sunday inaugurated the Rp three.6 trillion ($275 million) Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua Cable System (SMPCS), a fiber-optic community meant to enhance Japanese Indonesia’s telecommunications connectivity. The cable system is part of the state-owned telecommunication agency Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom)’s plans to attach the whole archipelago with fiber-optic know-how by the top of this yr.The […]


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