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• The Wi-Fi 7 era is here, and it’s bringing a lot more than just high speeds. It is fuelling a broadband services revolution

  25-10-2023 19:19
  With the majority of home broadband connections terminating over Wi-Fi, the most important factor in attracting, retaining, and thrilling broadband subscribers is whether their wireless experience matches the expectation of the services being delivered by the access technology.  This is why next-generation’s Wi-Fi 7 broadband gateways are uniquely positioned to play a central role in delivering services that drive enhanced user experiences and enable Broadband Service Providers to dif
  
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• How Wi-Fi 7 is fuelling a broadband services revolution

  25-10-2023 19:19
  Date: 22 November
  Time: 10am UK time
  With the majority of home broadband connections terminating over Wi-Fi, the most important factor in attracting, retaining, and thrilling broadband subscribers is whether their wireless experience matches the expectation of the services being delivered by the access technology.  This is why next-generation’s Wi-Fi 7 broadband gateways are uniquely positioned to play a central role in delivering services that drive enhanced user experiences and enab
  
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• New DLR trains on track, but depot expansion faces delays after contractor’s collapse

  25-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Upgrade work on the DLR to prepare it for a fleet of new trains has hit a problem after one of the contractors closed down.
  New DLR train (c) TfL
  The depot and maintenance facility at Beckton needs to be expanded to store and look after the new trains that will be coming into service next year, so there’s a large project to redevelop the depot. Most of the work is being carried out by Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, who are building a new maintenance shed and facilities, but a project to re
  
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• UK businesses pelted with 530 cyberattacks every second, says BT

  25-10-2023 16:17
  The volume of cyberthreats in the UK is ‘rising at an alarming rate’ according to a report from BT, who has launched a podcast in response.
  As well as  the 530 cyberattacks every second, BT also says that 46 million signals of potential cyber-attacks every day are clocked each day around the world.
  The industries which soak up the most attacks are IT, defence, banking and insurance – which combined represent 19.7% of malware sightings. Th
  
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• Pump up the volume: The Science Museum explores music’s impact on emotions

  25-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  From the use of music that affects how you buy things in supermarkets to sounds that change how food tastes, the Science Museum takes a look at how music affects our moods and can even manipulate our behaviour in ways we’re not aware of.
  As an exhibition about sound, it’s very interactive, so expect to spend a lot of time putting on headphones at the various displays to experience what’s being explained.For something so large, it’s surprisingly easy to miss as you walk in
  
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• Huawei FTTR Solution Won the Most Innovative PON/5G/FTTx Product Award at ECOC 2023

  25-10-2023 15:19
  [Glasgow, UK, October 25, 2023] At the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2023, a top academic conference on global optical communication, Huawei’s Fiber to the Room (FTTR) solution won the Most Innovative PON/5G/FTTx Product Award.The Huawei FTTR solution covers home and small- and micro-enterprises (SMEs) scenarios. It is the industry’s first FTTR solution and provides users with premium experience such as ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, seamless Wi-Fi roa
  
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• China Telecom Research Institute Completed World First ITU-T GPON System Three-Generation Co-Existence Verification on 50G PON

  25-10-2023 14:35
  In July 2023, China Telecom Research Institute and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. successfully verified the world’s first ITU-T-compliant three-generation co-existence 50G PON technical solution. The system performance of the prototype fully met the test expectations.
  The tested 50G PON prototype uses the GPON/XGS-PON/50G PON triple-mode MPM optical module in QSFP encapsulation format. GPON, XG(S)-PON, and 50G PON ONUs can coexist on the same ODN under the same PON port. The test results sh
  
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• Huawei’s iMaster NCE T-AUTO Unleashes the Business Potential of the WDM Network

  25-10-2023 14:14
  T-AUTO is a critical component in the evolution of optical transport automation, as it determines the core direction for this technology’s development. Future services need WDM infrastructure networks to better meet flexible and diversified requirements in the new era. To address this challenge, Huawei’s Optical Network Domain proposed T-AUTO as the brand-new value proposition. T-AUTO ‘s multiple functions will be integrated into various scenarios, enabling key roles in busines
  
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• Tours of Feliks Topolski’s railway arch artist studio and archive

  25-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For over 30 years, one of the railway arches in Waterloo was used as a studio by one of the country’s leading artists, Feliks Topolski, and now it’s opening up for public tours.
  Drawing by Topolski of the Bank of England printing press in Debden
  Born in Poland, Feliks Topolski moved to the UK in 1935, became an official war artist for the British military during WWII and later won a number of notable commissions, including for the United Nations and the Festival of Britain. He also d
  
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• Orange talks up 5G B2B potential

  25-10-2023 12:56
  At day two of Network X, Orange kicked off the keynote sessions by celebrating the fertile land of B2B network installations.
  Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière (pictured), Deputy CEO of Orange Group, took to the stage and began by dropping some headline stats about Orange’s operations in the various countries it operates in, and boasted that the fibre rollout is even slowing down in some countries as they have reached more than 90% coverage.
  ‘5G is all about using data
  
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• Vodafone lobbies for upper 6 GHz band to be reserved for mobile

  25-10-2023 12:06
  Operator group Vodafone has managed to hit 5 Gbps in tests using the upper 6 GHz band to transmit a mobile signal to a smartphone.
  The purpose of conducting the test and then issuing a press release about it was to demonstrate how important it is for that band to be reserved for mobile, as opposed to wifi. A decision on this matter is expected to be made at the ITU’s WRC23 conference, which commences on 20 November, and the wifi industry will be stating the case that it needs that extra sp
  
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• Microsoft pledges A$5 billion for Australian AI and cloud market

  25-10-2023 11:49
  US tech giant Microsoft has pledged to make a A$5 billion investment in Australia to help the country seize the AI opportunity.
  The company says the investments will go towards expanding its hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in the country over the next two years and to increasing data centres from 20 to 29 sites in Australia.
  In so doing, Microsoft will increase its computing capacity by around 250% over the investment period. Expecting cloud computing services to grow from A$12.
  
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• Unlocking 5G with Telco Cloud

  25-10-2023 10:29
  This eBook examines CSPs’ existential struggle on the journey to a fully cloud-native 5G network. The outlook includes 5G Standalone launches, 5G greenfield opportunities, and the overall telco cloud through 2028. Also evaluated are the means to mitigate issues CSPs face on this journey, including three critical precepts for success. The report covers the following:What are CSPs’ top three challenges with the cloud-native 5G core?
  What is the likely rollout of 5G standalone networks?
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: The Stage Viaduct Garden, EC2

  25-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a new pocket park built on top of a disused railway viaduct in the heart of Shoreditch.Known as the Kingsland Viaduct, the railway was built by the North London Railway in the 1860s to allow the railway to run into Broad Street station, next to Liverpool Street station.
  However, declining traffic saw it closed in 1986, when Broad Street Station closed. In recent years, the northern half of the viaduct came back into use as the London Overground, but the southern end was left derelict. On
  
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