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If you live in a rural location, super fast broadband roll-outs can take a long time to reach you - but if you're still waiting to be connected to ...

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There were raised eyebrows among digital natives in Australia recently when Netflix announced it would open for business in Australia in March 2015. ...

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However well you plan your installation, fiber cable is rarely the right length for each run, and is inherently difficult to join. Consequently, ...

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When it comes to Fiber to the Home (FTTH) installations, microduct is a common choice to protect optical fiber due to its size. This blog post offers ...

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It is one of life’s ironies that the equipment used to establish ultra-fast communication links, the telecommunications fixed network, has lived up ...

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Interest is rapidly growing across the African continent into new fiber to the home (FTTH) ‘last drop’ techniques that turn ‘homes passed’ into ...

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Over 80% of FTTH rollouts rely on aerial fiber deployments in some form. So, why should you choose aerial over buried implementations and what do you ...

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Every fiber network installation is unique, with its own set of challenges to be overcome. Whether it is a topographical problem that needs to be ...

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The number of Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) deployments is increasing rapidly across the globe in response to growing marketplace demand for high ...

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How did the universe begin? Does it have an end? Answering these questions is the aim of the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), which will be ...

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Given the variety of splice options available to fiber network planners, identifying the best connector for FTTH can be overwhelming. Consequently, ...

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The introduction in the United States of gigabit Fiber to the Home (FTTH) connectivity made me wonder what this extra speed could be used for. After ...

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In our series of blogs based on PPC’s Complete Guide to Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) Deployment eBook, we’ve outlined the options for operators, when ...

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Operators around the world are in the midst of major roll-outs of Fiber to the Home/Fiber to the Premises (FTTH/P) networks. Ensuring these ...

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Superfast fiber broadband has the potential to transform cities. By providing the ability to connect to the internet at high speed, citizens, ...

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High speed fiber broadband networks enable businesses to be more productive, open up new services to citizens, students and patients as well as ...

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In previous blogs based on our Complete Guide to Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) Deployment eBook, we’ve talked about the planning needed if your FTTP ...

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Currently operators in countries around the world are investing heavily in rolling out fiber broadband to subscribers, either directly with Fiber to ...

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Today’s cars are full of the latest electronic toys, making them a moving office and entertainment center all in one. We have CD players, iPod ports, ...

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Extending high speed fiber access through inside plant installations within buildings is often difficult, expensive and time consuming. Often ...

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Planning the last 1,000 feet of fiber deployments can resemble a logic puzzle. How do you get a connection from the main network to the premises in a ...

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Careful planning is crucial if a Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) installation is to be a success. It begins with choosing your architecture, and in a ...

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Modern higher education is increasingly underpinned by technology. Whatever the subject, teaching, research and administration all rely on the fast ...

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In business, everyone expects high quality products and services, meaning that praise from customers is pretty rare. So, when our US partner Core ...

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Superfast broadband brings highly desirable benefits across the board, but complexities in the last drop can often introduce unwelcome expense and ...

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Fire regulations for fiber cable protection vary across the world, meaning that a cable suitable for use indoors in one country may very well not be ...

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The socio-economic benefits of fiber are beyond question. Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) can boost economic development, spark innovation and improve ...

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Recently I visited Thailand on business, providing me with a vivid reminder of my back packing days twenty years ago. Then my adventure was raw, ...

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As we approach the halfway mark of 2014, I thought it worthwhile to share my views on the trends we are seeing in the FTTH and pushable fiber market ...

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Fiber networks are a key driver of economic growth and consequently are becoming critical to cities and communities across the world. High speed FTTH ...

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I’ve just come back from sunny Moscow, where I attended a very busy Sviaz-Expocomm show. Officially titled the 26th International Exhibition for ...

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As the prodigious growth of fiber optics continues across the globe, it is moving into more and more sectors with increasingly diverse and demanding ...

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Finding the ideal fiber installation solution for Multi-dwelling Units (MDU), normally apartment blocks or hotels, is a major obstacle that carriers ...

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Fiber has to survive and operate in the toughest conditions. Whether it is during installation or ongoing operation it is vital it continues to ...

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The recent article in The Engineer ‘is Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in Africa just for the elite?’ – got me thinking of the progression I have seen in ...

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Cost-effectively rolling out new cellular infrastructure is critical for carriers looking to compete in increasingly demanding markets. Technologies ...

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With its products used in thousands of fiber deployments across the globe, Dura-Line is one of the world’s leading suppliers of conduit duct. ...

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Recently PPC was asked to investigate solutions to the problem of a FTTH rollout with no space for microduct. The customer faced the challenge of ...

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Previously ensuring physical fibre security has been difficult. All this has changed with the launch of PPC’s Miniflex clear fibre cables which allow ...

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Optical fibre is very fragile – hence the need to protect it with tough jacketing, wherever it is deployed. However successful an installation is, ...

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Currently one of the fastest growing markets for fibre is in Africa, with huge communications infrastructure rollouts underway across the continent. ...

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Amidst all the high speed network rollouts that are happening across the world, there’s an ongoing discussion about the relative balance between ...

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We live in a technological age, where superfast communications are essential to both companies and consumers. And that’s especially true if you’re ...

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The deployment of high speed fibre broadband has the ability to regenerate whole regions, boosting business competitiveness and creating jobs. ...

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The news that Los Angeles is planning a gigabit fiber network to connect every business and home within the city limits is a further demonstration of ...

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This week sees the 80th birthday of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, the pioneering electrical engineer who has been described as the Father of Fibre Optics and ...

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In a previous post we discussed the options consumers and businesses have when it comes to high speed broadband in the UK. In this follow on piece, ...

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Today’s military strength is built around having the best technology, rather than simply brute force. From aircraft, battlefield vehicles and naval ...

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New York, 30 September 2013: PPC, the inventors and producers of the world-leading range of patented Miniflex™ fiber cables, today launched its new ...

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Over half of us now have a smartphone and we’re using mobile devices for more and more data intensive applications. It is predicted that by 2014, ...

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On the Making Light Work blog, we’ve talked a lot about the growth of high speed networking and the move to fibre networks around the world and in ...

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Given the overwhelming success of British Cycling, both at the Olympics and the Tour de France, businesses have naturally been looking at how such ...

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As part of our ongoing product development we’ve been conducting advanced crush resistance and impact force testing of our Miniflex protective ...

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When many people think of factories, they think of low technology, manual processes and hundreds of staff working on production lines. Nowadays ...

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In the telecoms market innovation is constant as new standards and technologies are developed and rolled out around the world. The pace of change in ...

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The move to the Cloud and explosion in Big Data is driving unprecedented growth in the data centre market. Analyst company TechNavio forecasts a ...

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The equipment used in oil and gas extraction has to be able to cope with the harshest of environments. From the sub zero temperatures of Alaska to ...

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Like many countries France is moving rapidly to a fibre optic future. Latest figures from telecoms regulator ARCEP found that there were 50,000 more ...

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It is sometimes difficult to comprehend the explosive growth in data transmission rates over the last thirty years. We’ve moved from 56k dial up ...

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Cars have evolved rapidly over the last decade, moving from the analogue to the digital world. Technology such as video and audio entertainment ...

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Buildings come in all shapes and sizes, from single houses to massive tower blocks or hotels with potentially hundreds of different apartments or ...

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Deploying a fibre optic network can be an expensive business. Installing a new backbone network is a part of this, but delivering fibre from the ...

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PPC’s products are designed to protect optical fibre in the toughest surroundings. And while conditions on Earth can be difficult, venture into space ...

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Like many countries around the world, the UK government understands that superfast broadband is crucial to competing in the global economy. Whether ...

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The Queen Mary is an iconic ocean liner that was a byword for luxurious travel for over thirty years, transporting celebrities and royalty across the ...

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Operating in harmony with the environment around us is fundamental to the longer term future of the planet. Organisations are therefore increasingly ...

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More and more industries rely on the power of optical fibre to transmit ever increasing amounts of information. Whether it is delivering superfast ...

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New York and London, 10 June 2014, PPC, the inventors and producers of the world-leading range of patented Miniflex™ fiber cables, today announced ...

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Smartphones are driving a massive increase in mobile wireless data usage across the globe, which is only accelerating as technologies such as LTE and ...

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