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• Refurbishment for Southeastern’s Javelin HS1 trains

  19-10-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The high-speed Javelin trains that provide services between London St Pancras and Kent are to receive a £27 million refurbishment, with work starting early next year.
  The upgrade will involve a full interior refresh, including new carpets and seats, with proposed new seating layouts to assist people with reduced mobility. There will also be USB charging sockets introduced, and later in 2024, live passenger information screens.
  Interior concept image (c) Southeastern
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• China Telecom Research Institute Completed 50G PON Prototype Test with ITU-T Next Generation PON Standard

  19-10-2022 17:25
  Recently, China Telecom Research Institute successfully completed the technical test of the 50G PON prototype that supports the ITU-T standard optical power budget. The system performance fully met expectations. The 50G PON prototype uses the wavelengths specified in ITU-T G.9804.3 (officially released in 2021) and supports upstream and downstream line rates of 50 Gbps and 25 Gbps. After two-level 1:8 optical splitters and 20 km fiber transmission, the optical power budget exceeds 29 dB, meeting
  
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• Next-Generation PON Technology Drives Gigabit Optical Network Evolution

  19-10-2022 17:11
  At the OptiNet China Conference 2022 China held in Beijing, Zhang Dechao, Deputy Director of the Basic Network Technology Research Institute of China Mobile, delivered a keynote speech titled “Next-Generation PON Technology Drives Gigabit Optical Network Evolution”. Zhang Dechao said that under the strategic background of accelerating new infrastructure construction in the 14th Five-Year Plan and transforming China Mobile’s computing power network, the gigabit optical access ne
  
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• China Mobile Guangdong Completed the First Pilot Test in China for 50G PON on the Live Network

  19-10-2022 17:02
  Recently, China Mobile Guangdong completed the pilot test first in China for Next Generation PON-50G PON features on the live network in Jinhai Building, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. The test result shows that the 50G PON solution can fully meet the requirements of multiple application scenarios such as 8K and XR in the future.
  On September 2021, the 50G PON international standard was approved by ITU-T, indicating that 50G PON has become the evolution target of the next generation PON technology.
  
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• The muscial theatre comes to the V&A Museum

  19-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new exhibition at the V&A has opened that’s should lure people up to their theatre galleries, as it tells the story of the musicals.This free display showcases 100 objects, the majority of which are being displayed for the first time, bringing together brand-new acquisitions and unseen classics in the V&A’s Theatre and Performance Galleries.
  There’s a look at crossovers when musicals become films, or more often these days, films become stage musicals and the challenge
  
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• Verizon identifies tech perception gaps between managers and staff

  19-10-2022 14:24
  US telco Verizon has highlighted that the higher a person climbs up the corporate ladder, the harder it is for them to see what’s happening down at the bottom.
  In partnership with Omdia, Verizon surveyed 1,100 so-called business decision makers (BDMs), IT decision makers (ITDMs), and employees. The results won’t make for particularly pleasing reading for those in more senior roles.
  According to Verizon, nearly half of employees cite outdated business systems and technology as barrier
  
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• Cyber security takes centre stage at Network X

  19-10-2022 14:09
  On day two of the Network X conference in Amsterdam, telco execs and security experts looked outside the industry to examine how things like cyber security vulnerabilities, war, and regulation are impacting the market.
  The headline conference track on the second day of Network X in Amsterdam was an almost entirely security focussed affair, as ex-hackers turned security specialists and telco execs explored issues such as the rising number of hacks, securing networks in times of war, how regulatio
  
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• West End sales boosted by the opening of the Elizabeth line

  19-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Elizabeth line is expected to boost West End revenues by up to £7 billion by 2031, compared to previous forecasts, according to a report commissioned by the New West End Company.
  Tottenham Court Road station
  TFL’s forecasts combined with Colliers West End turnover modelling estimates that the Elizabeth Line will be boosting West End performance by around 7 per cent, which equates to between £5-7 billion by 2031, compared to what the situation would be if the Elizabeth line
  
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• BT wants to give fruit-picking robots the edge

  19-10-2022 12:51
  UK telco BT is among a group of companies that are paving the way for robots down on the farm.
  The group is called Robot Highways, and is backed by the government’s Innovate UK fund. It is led by Saga Robotics, which has developed a multi-functional farming robot called Thorvald. BT’s role within Robot Highways is to provide a cloud-based robot management platform and edge infrastructure that can coordinate and automate a range of farming processes.
  The group this week showed off the
  
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• UK sets significant precedents in ordering Meta to sell Giphy

  19-10-2022 10:46
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has reaffirmed its demand that US internet giant Meta undo its 2020 acquisition of GIF search engine Giphy.
  This marks the completion of a protracted appeals process following the first CMA ruling almost a year ago. The company formerly known as Facebook inevitably appealed the ruling, which a UK court largely dismissed in the middle of this year. The CMA then got some people to have one more look at the situation and, equally inevitably, declined to chan
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Parsons Green, SW6

  19-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a large triangle of green that gave its name to the wider area and although nearly lost to development, survives as a public park.The pocket park, and later the wider area was named after the rectors of the parish of Fulham whose residence once adjoined this patch of land. From the late 17th-century onwards, the area surrounding the green became the focus for fine houses and grounds built by merchants and the gentry within easy distance of London, yet in a more wholesome location away fr
  
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