Editor's pick
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list! -
The volume of network attacks and security breaches continues to rise. This puts traditional bolt-on IP network security solutions under strain, with the potential to impact service quality and increase latency in a time when customers are expecting the highest reliability.
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Capacity's annual State of the Industry survey for 2021-22 is now live.
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Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is an emerging business model for communications service providers (CSPs) and enterprises with interest surging.
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Nominations are now open for Capacity's top 20 ICT investors list 2021.
Forthcoming events
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A new subsea cable has been planned which will add further capacity to the route between China and Taiwan, following the announcement last year of the first direct link between the countries.
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Israel’s Ministry of Communications has moved to encourage further development of the country’s wholesale telecoms market, and is considering legislation to allow alternative telcos to lease fixed-line infrastructure on favourable terms.
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Bharti airtel followed Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices with the launch of services in Karnataka in south India, and will roll out the service in 12 further regions by March.
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Egyptian operator Orascom has finalised the sale of its 50% stake in Tunisian operator Tunisiana to Qtel in a deal worth $1.2 billion.
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Network vendor Ciena has been selected by Saudi Arabian operator Mobily to build a network in the region. Ciena will provide Mobily with selected solutions across its portfolio, including Carrier Ethernet, optical transport and switching to bring Ethernet services to the network edge and integrate packet optical switching and transport through the network core. Mobily is Saudi Arabia’s fastest growing mobile technology provider, owning 40% of the country’s mobile market.
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US carrier AT&T aims to be operating a 4G LTE network across the US by the end of 2013, with its first deployment expected to be completed by mid-2011.
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While it is not uncommon for telecoms-related issues to fight their way onto the news agenda, the events unfolding in Egypt in recent days are unprecedented, both in terms of their scale and their implications.
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UK incumbent BT has rejected claims that it is in breach of net neutrality protocols after launching a two-tier internet service that charges content companies for streaming video content at high speeds.
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The Indian carrier Reliance Globalcom is upgrading its Flag Europe Asia (FEA) subsea cable to 40Gbps transmission speeds.
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The recent statistics from the FTTH Council Europe, spotlighting the economies that are leading the way in fibre access deployment, make happy reading – at first sight.
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European carrier Interoute has extended its low-latency network to the financial hubs of Amsterdam and Milan.
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Wholesale voice carrier iBasis has carried out enhancements to its network infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region to streamline the way it provides voice termination services.
