BT’s access network division, Openreach, announced plans to deploy G.fast broadband technology to 10 million homes and businesses across the UK by 2020.  The lucky hardware winners will be Huawei and Nokia. Clive Selley, Openreach CEO, said: “Openreach is pioneering G.fast technology because we want to get affordable ultrafast speeds to as many people as […]

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CenturyLink, Inc. has announced that they have installed North America’s’ largest G.fast deployment in multiple dwelling units (MDUs) in Platteville, WI. The technology will assist the service provider in delivering high-speed broadband to apartment dwellers using their building’s copper and/or coaxial cable. The Calix solution in Platteville uses a wide range of Calix software, systems, […]

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The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced plans for a global Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) interoperability demonstration in the fall of 2016. There are a wide range of participating carriers and vendors, which point to the real industry desire to advance the application of SDN to […]

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