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businesses of each company,’ Coherent said in a statement. Commenting on the accepted
proposal, II-VI CEO Dr Vincent Matera Jr said: ‘We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Coherent to create a global leader in photonic solutions, compound semiconductors and laser technology and systems. Together, we will have significant opportunities to accelerate our growth through complementary technology platorms, strengthen our competitiveness by using our combined scale across the value chain, benefit from deeper market intelligence and expertise, and further diversify our businesses by end market and geography. Moreover, the combination of II- VI and Coherent will increase our collective exposure to irreversible megatrends for decades to come. We are excited to welcome the talented Coherent team to II-VI and look forward to working together to deliver significant value to all stakeholders, including both companies’ shareholders, customers, employees, and business partners.’
APRIL Fibre cable technology came
to the forefront in April, with the news that bandwidth infrastructure firm euNetworks deployed a new business network in London, based on hollow core fibre technology. Te network runs in the
financial district of the UK’s capital, between Interxion, a digital realty company, and the London Stock Exchange. It is designed to provide the kind of significant latency savings demanded by financial trading applications. For the technology,
Southampton University spin out, Lumenisity supplied its CoreSmart cable solution, based on NANF hollow core fibres, in what was thought to be the first commercially available deployment of this technology. It was part of an agreement covering additional deployments over the coming years between trading venues and other locations.
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Tony Pearson, business
development director at Lumenisity said at the time: ‘We’re very pleased to partner with euNetworks to enable them to provide the lowest latency performance to a major trading exchange using our CoreSmart cable. We are excited to be collaborating with such an established carrier and to already have hollow core deployed, carrying traffic as part of this development.’ Brady Rafuse, chief executive
officer of euNetworks, added: ‘We continue to focus on delivering lowest latency services for our customers. We focus on identifying new and innovative technologies that can be deployed on our network to provide the best possible bandwidth solutions. We’re excited to be working with Lumenisity, helping to develop and deploy hollow core fibre. We’re confident that with this technology we can achieve market leading fibre-based latencies much closer to radio frequency systems, without the constraints that are inherently present with those radio frequency solutions.’
MAY Te most widely-read story
in May also had a technology flavour, this time surrounding coherent optics as Australia’s wholesale open-access broadband provider, NBN Co completed a successful proof of concept trial of Infinera’s XR optics-based point-to-multipoint coherent optical technology. Te trial demonstrated XR
optics’ compatibility within the provider’s Transit Network, a DWDM-based network that spans more than 65,000km across Australia. It highlighted the ability of the technology to simplify transport network architecture with the aim of reducing CapEx and OpEx across diverse applications. Providing multiple 100Gb/s of
capacity efficiently subdivided into discrete subcarriers, XR optics is designed to enable capacity management and optimisation.
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Te demonstration was designed to inform how NBN Co considers options to evolve its transport network to support growing data demands in the future. Ray Owen, chief technology
officer at NBN Co commented: ‘Te nbn Transit Network is our national backbone, supporting the growing data needs of Australians as they rely more on broadband for their work, education, social and entertainment needs. It is important that we keep track of new innovations to guide how we evolve our network to help meet changing needs in the future.’ Also in May came the release of
the FTTH Council Europe’s 2021 Market Panorama in association with Idate, outlining fibre deployment trends in Europe. Among the findings, the report
found that the total number of homes passed with FTTH and FTTB in the EU39 reached nearly
182.6 million in September 2020, compared to 172 million in September 2019. A key milestone was also reached, as FTTH/B coverage in EU39 now amounts to more than half of total homes. By September 2020, said the report, EU39 reached a 52.5 per cent coverage of FTTH/B networks, showing a clear upward trend from the September 2015 figures when the coverage was at 39.8 per cent. Te main movers in terms
of homes passed in absolute numbers are France, Italy, Germany and the UK, while the top five of the annual growth rates in terms of homes passed is led by Belgium (+155 per cent), Serbia (+110 per cent), Germany (+66 per cent), United Kingdom (+65 per cent) and Ireland (+49 per cent). Te number of FTTH and
FTTB subscribers increased by 16.6 per cent in the region, with
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