BICC, the troubled cabling and construction group, has agreed to sell its Telecommunication Cable business to US-based Corning. While an exit from the booming telecoms market has surprised some industry watchers, BICC explained that the loss-making...
To increase its market acceptance, Intel is pushing products for Gigabit Ethernet over category 5 copper cables, the legacy standard in stark contrast to fibre-optic cabling. In short, this pipe is fat, fast and cheap, leading to rumors that it may...
In many locations the power companies have installed optical fibre along their power lines for telemetry related to the control of power distribution. So it does make sense for wireless technology to be used at that end point, in a distribution...
The good news is that much of the local loop cabling is installed in buried ducts that obviate the need for huge amounts of civil engineering. This column was compiled after walking around Singapore with my laptop logging hundreds of Wi-Fi...
There's a classic black and white photograph of internet pioneer Vinton Cerf taken when the network was just several rudimentary computers and some cabling strewn around a couple of US campuses. The service provider uses Ethernet to transport IP...
H2O's Focus (fibre optical underground sewer system) system "is a fast and cost-effective way to lay cable and link up any location without the high costs and disruption caused by traditional cabling methods", the company said last week.