Operators face continued increases in traffic, slow revenue growth, and competitive pressures to invest in and innovate for emerging cloud and 5G-related applications. As a result, they are increasingly looking to hyperscaler-led innovations, including softwaredefined networking (SDN), virtualization, and disaggregation. Due to size and complexity, fiber access networks have emerged as an area of particular interest and promise for driving lower network costs and delivering advanced services across the residential, business, and wholesale markets...

Data is the new fuel. With millions of people working from home and family members spending more time streaming TV shows and movies, doing live video chats and watching live news, a new situation of internet overload has emerged. Residential environments have emerged as the new hubs of data consumption. Consequentially, there has been a shift in peak hours of consumption along with an increase in demand variability. This has brought the urgent need for hyperscale fibre connectivity and more importantly, FTTx to the fore. In this paper, we dive deep into the challenges of deploying FTTx and explore solutions to achieve the desired scale while focusing on cost and time efficiencies...

New digital use cases are shaping our lives in ways unimaginable. Users want more bandwidth, better speed, newer use cases and a great customer experience. This demands a massive change in the ecosystem. Service providers need to augment their networks to accommodate these needs as well as exert on-demand control over the entire network. Re-designing the last-mile network infrastructure will ensure convergence of network access technologies thereby making it easier to meet growing users demand...

The needs for FTTx networks have arrived earlier than our forecasting models have predicted. Consequently, the deployment of FTTH and FTTB networks have increased significantly. Setting up a fibre-based broadband network, once considered a luxury affordable to the developed world, is poised to become mainstream all over the world. FTTx is evolving on multiple fronts, be it business models, execution methodologies, operating efficiency and strategic partnerships & alliances. Technological developments sit in the middle of it all, playing the role of the enabler.

Critical infrastructure systems and facilities are fundamental to driving modern society, providing the necessary basic services that form a foundation for nearly all other activities. This paper seeks to highlight the effectiveness that can be brought about by infusing technology into security setups around the world. As we proceed, we will look at an overview of critical infrastructure and challenges. We will elaborate on the foundational components of a successful critical infrastructure security strategy. We intend to use this as a best practice primer for securing critical infrastructure...

In the recent years, the world has realised the combined potential of ubiquitous data and disruptive technologies. Now we see, a new set of use cases, which are about to become a necessity for people across the world. Smart homes - replete with connected devices and using technologies like AR, VR, IoT, AI and block chain are just on the anvil. The next real estate boom might just be in this exciting milieu of smart, connected homes. We are already seeing connected cars in developed countries.All this is customer experience. While the time for this idea has come, how ready are we to actually deliver it?...

Over the past few decades, charging has been a critical element of telecom operations. With the evolution of mobile internet and high data usage, policy control has also become equally important. Although network operators and telecom vendors have always treated these two functions (Policy Control and Charging) differently, if you look closely, they are meant to complement each other and hence be aware of each other...

We investigated the multipath interference (MPI) characteristics of short length bend insensitive optical fibers using broadband source/OSA technique. It is found that MPI is negligible for fibers with lengths as short as 2 m with worst case splice conditions. As the fiber reaches near or into houses for FTTH applications, it needs to have very high bend resistance [1]...

A scalable and low cost IoT network is the cornerstone of a Smart City program, and LoRa-based devices and the LoRaWAN specification provide high-capacity, low power networks that form the basis of successful smart city solutions...

In Smart City Projects, KIOSK plays a major role. As a move towards an approachable city administration, these city kiosks are expected to act as an extended arm of city administration departments and help in connecting with citizens while promoting anytime services complementing the mobile platform based service delivery...

Changing enterprise business requirements ultimately drives network market shift. We are entering into a very exciting time of new applications need and related data cable business opportunities. emerging applications demands higher bandwidth and these bandwidth intensive applications requires speed beyond 1 GB/s in existing Local area network (Lan) infrastructures...

Deployment of optical fiber cable in limited space and in tight bend conditions demands reduced diameter optical fiber and cable with bend insensitive fiber. To address this need, optical fiber with 200 micron outer coating diameter instead of 250 micron for conventional fiber has been developed...