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• FTTH Architecture Overview

  10-07-2019 21:33
  Not all FTTH networks are built the same way. Since construction and outside plant account for the majority of total network costs, getting the architecture right has a major impact on the business case. The network architecture can also impact time-to-market, labour/training requirements, future upgradeability, network performance, and ultimately, customer satisfaction.
  This paper provides an overview of two fundamental FTTH architecture categories—centralised and cascaded—that dete
  
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• Holborn road junction getting a “super crossing”

  10-07-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you use the area, you might have noticed building works at the road junction outside Holborn tube station. What looks like a simple exercise in widening the congested pavements a bit is part of a much larger project to improve the streets for pedestrians across the wider area.Most significantly at this junction though, they aren’t just widening the pavements, but introducing what they call a “super crossing” — very similar to the one at Oxford Circus (and yes, at other
  
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• Vodafone top two take 20% bonus cut due to rubbish share price

  10-07-2019 17:54
  Chief Exec Nick Read, and Chief Financial Officer, Margherita Della Valle are taking one for the team because Vodafone hasn’t been performing.
  Vodafone’s share price is down 15% since the start of this year, 19% since Read took over at the helm and 44% since the start of 2018. Corporate tradition is for senior execs to get massive bonuses regardless of how badly their company is performing, while still attaching strict performance conditions to their underlings’ variable pay.
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• US/Huawei saga enters the realm of ‘who knows what going on?’

  10-07-2019 16:41
  The US Commerce Department has held a press conference to announce some companies can now trade with Huawei, but no-one knows who, how, what or where.
  Speaking at the annual department conference in Washington, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said US companies can now start trading with Huawei, assuming they have had a license approved by his department, which is unlikely to happen, while little guidance has been offered to the criteria on how decisions will be made.
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• Jubilee line train drove with doors open due to ‘poor training and tiredness’

  10-07-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last September, a Jubilee line train was driven at over 60km/h between two stations with its doors open in several carriages, a report from the Rail Accident investigation has found.
  An investigation by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has not come to a conclusive decision about how the incident occured, but says that it was likely due to a mix of poor staff training and tiredness in the driver.
  The driver, who has not been named, had been operating trains on the Jubilee line since
  
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• IBM and Red Hat seal the deal

  10-07-2019 14:27
  The $34 billion acquisition of opensource enterprise software vendor Red Hat by venerable tech giant IBM has finally been completed.
  The mega M&A was first announced last October and, given the size of it, seems to have gone through relatively quickly. Now begins the significant undertaking of integrating two such massive organisations that may well have quite distinct cultures.
  IBM was founded in 1911 and has undergone several transformations to become the enterprise software and services c
  
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• AT&T gets streaming with HBO Max

  10-07-2019 14:01
  Gone are the days when the consumer could get all the content they wanted in one place as AT&T’s WarnerMedia joins the streaming landgrab.
  With Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney, HBO and numerous other streaming services on the market before too long, the fragmentation of content is looking like it could be a serious problem for the consumer. Whether splitting the spoils has an overarching negative impact on the segments profits remains to be seen, but customers wallets can only be p
  
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• Battle lines drawn ahead of White House social media summit

  10-07-2019 13:52
  US President Trump has invited a number of social media commentators to a discussion about the current digital environment.
  This is being largely interpreted as an anecdotal investigation into the nature of social media censorship, with Trump having repeatedly raised his concerns on the matter. The major social media platforms don’t seem to have been invited, however, instead a selection of independent journalists, commentators and activists will be asked about their online experiences.
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• Rolling bridge proposed for East London

  10-07-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A bridge that rolls over to allow boats to pass through, and then back for humans to cross could be built at Canning Town.
  The elegant Cody Dock Rolling Bridge aims to create an easier link between the Cody Wilds and the new Lea River Park that links Canning Town to 26 miles of towpath walks along the Lea Valley.
  The bridge will also enable Cody Dock to re-open to boats for the first time in over 50 years.
  (c) Cody Dock Rolling Bridge
  What’s exciting about the project is the simplicity and
  
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• ZTE gets ahead of the game with cybersecurity centre launch

  10-07-2019 12:45
  With Huawei facing scrutiny over its alleged ties to the Chinese Government, it will only be a matter of time before ZTE faces the same questions considering its own, complex ownership structure.
  Taking a page from the Huawei playbook, ZTE has officially opened its European Cybersecurity Centre in Brussels, Belgium. The lab will open its doors to current and potential customers, as well as national regulators, to access the external security verification of ZTE’s products, services and pro
  
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• BT says it may cut dividend to fund fibre broadband plans

  10-07-2019 12:41
  Chief says it could cost £400m-£600m to connect 15m homes by middle of next decade
  
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• ZTE launches its Cybersecurity Lab Europe in Brussels

  10-07-2019 10:28
  Furthering its commitment to the ICT industry security10 July 2019, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise, and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has today furthered its commitment to improving security for the ICT industry by opening its Cybersecurity Lab Europe in Brussels, Belgium.Located in the administrative and political heart of the EU, the Cybersecurity Lab Europe will provide a much w
  
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• WBA Releases Wi-Fi 6 Guidelines to Assist Operators, Enterprises, Cities with Deployments

  10-07-2019 10:00
  Scenarios Addresses Planning, Design, Meeting SLAs As Trials Of Next-Gen Wi-Fi Continue Ramping UpLondon – July 10, 2019: In preparation for the impending release of next-generation Wi-Fi technology later this year, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today released a new white paper that provides deployment guidelines for a number of possible scenarios utilizing Wi-Fi 6 technology. With today’s white paper release, operators, enterprises and cities now have the tools needed to emb
  
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• Rowland Emett’s fantastical railway to go on display

  10-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a rare chance to see a whimsical train built by Rowland Emett before it is sold at an auction.
  Rowland Emett, the British artist and inventor, is most famous for his magical flying car and the crackpot machines made for the film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But his largest, most ambitious – and in Emett’s view, his finest work – was his kinetic sculpture, A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley, which is now in full working-order.This whimsical train ride was in
  
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• Bulgaria’s Vivacom up for sale in spite of ownership dispute

  10-07-2019 06:01
  Lazard has been appointed to sell country’s largest telecoms company
  
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• US MVNO Ting dumps T-Mobile citing Sprint deal uncertainty

  10-07-2019 02:00
  US MVNO Ting Mobile has announced plans to switch to the Verizon network from T-Mobile due to uncertainty caused by the latter's protracted bid to merge with Sprint.The $26 billion deal is still waiting for the nod from regulators, as the two telcos negotiate concessions that will ease concerns about the tie-up's impact on competition…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• US moves forward with relaxing Huawei ban, but policy still muddled

  10-07-2019 02:00
  The US has offered some clarity on its plan to ease restrictions on companies that sell components to Huawei, but the policy is still likely to cause confusion among the Chinese kit maker's suppliers.After President Trump decided late last month to relax the ban on Huawei &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New Philippines telco Mislatel gets licence, rebrands to Dito Telecommunity

  10-07-2019 02:00
  New Filipino operator Mislatel has finally been granted its mobile licence, and has marked the occasion by rebranding to Dito Telecommunity.Local press reported this week that President Rodrigo Duterte presented the operating licence to Dennis Uy…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KCOM bidding tops £570m

  10-07-2019 02:00
  Bids for KCOM have topped £570 million, with a Macquarie-backed fund currently leading the race for the UK regional service provider.Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6 (MEIF) &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cisco snaps up Acacia for $2.6bn

  10-07-2019 02:00
  Cisco has struck a $2.6 billion deal to acquire specialist vendor Acacia Communications.Acacia makes coherent optical interconnect products, helping telcos, data centre providers, and Webscale players keep pace with the ever…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Alexa, does this look infected? Amazon partners with UK health service

  10-07-2019 02:00
  UK consumers will soon be able to seek health advice using Amazon Alexa, thanks to a new partnership with the UK National Health Service.The aim is to help patients that may otherwise struggle to find information online &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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