Infrastructure

VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan has launched Starlink Mobile, enabling customers in Kazakhstan to access apps and messaging on their smartphones in areas without terrestrial mobile coverage. The service provides satellite connectivity directly to compatible smartphones without requiring a satellite phone,...

Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom have announced a strategic partnership to strengthen the security and resilience of digital infrastructure for enterprises across Europe. The agreement will combine Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud and security solutions with Deutsche Telekom’s telecommunications infrastructure and enterprise...

The fixed broadband industry is entering a more mature phase as full fibre adoption becomes increasingly important alongside network coverage. In many established markets, operators have already made substantial progress in extending fibre to homes and businesses, shifting the...

Fibre networks are increasingly being considered for functions beyond the transmission of data as optical sensing creates opportunities to use deployed infrastructure to detect changes in the surrounding environment. Distributed fibre optic sensing can identify acoustic, vibration, temperature and...

As fibre becomes more central to broadband, cloud and enterprise connectivity, the resilience of digital infrastructure is increasingly shaped by the physical routes carrying traffic between network locations. Network route diversity is becoming more important because additional connectivity does...

The expansion of fibre infrastructure is bringing a new efficiency question into network planning: how can operators carry substantially more traffic without allowing energy consumption to rise at the same pace? Fibre network efficiency is becoming increasingly important as...

AI infrastructure is becoming increasingly distributed across data centres, regions and edge locations, changing the role that connectivity plays in computing architecture. Fibre networks are moving beyond their traditional role of connecting users to digital services and are increasingly...