Europe: France: Fiber Optic Plans for Paris
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Iliad, a French telecommunications company, said it planned to build a fiber optic communications network throughout Paris for 1 billion euros. Iliad said development of the network would begin next year and would take five years to complete. Building and owning its own fiber optics network would allow the company to save on renting telephone lines from France TÃ©lÃ©com, Iliad said. It would lease any excess capacity on the network to competitors. ÂDemand for bandwidth is showing no sign of abating,ÂÂ IliadÂs chief executive, Michael Boukobza, said at a news conference. But investors were concerned about the cost, and stock in Iliad, which is based in Paris, fell nearly 12 percent.
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PARIS / LONDON: France said on Wednesday it will sell up to 12.1% of France Telecom to raise â¬5.8 billion ($6.9bn) and help cut national debt in Europeâs largest placing in four years.
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Fiber-optic networks transmit massive amounts of information quickly, but the signals weaken as the data-carrying light travels long distances.
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Tokyo, March 1 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.'s two regional units Thursday unveiled their business plans that commit themselves to attaining a net 3.4 million new subscribers to their fiber-optic telecommunications services in fiscal 2007 starting from April.
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Is Google Planning to Build A Global Fiber Optic Network?  Could be, as reported today on SEOchat and ZDnet they are on the hunt for 'dark fiber'. Known in the industy as fiber optic cable that's already been laid, but is not yet in use.   Apparently there is a large amount ...
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Just over four years into a 20-year agreement, France TÃ©lÃ©com SA is abandoning a U.S. dark-fiber network it rented from Level 3 Communications Inc. -- and replacing it with a network of lit fibers, also from Level 3, the companies announced Tuesday.
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Cities that try to set up their own broadband networks are facing staunch opposition from cable and phone companies, who see publicly funded fiber-optic networks as a threat to their own bottom line. By John Gartner.
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Paris is set to have a new monthly guide to what's going on in the City of Lights from restaurants, shopping and cultural events from next week.
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But UK still in the dark There are now over one million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband connections in Europe, according to an Informa report.â¦
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Paris is trying to reduce traffic congestion by launching an ambitious bicycle program that will offer more than 20,000 bikes by the end of the year.
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(InfoWorld) - Researchers at Siemens have transmitted data over polymer optical fiber cable at around 1Gbps, opening up new possibilities for the technology, including easy-to-build home networks linking PCs and high-definition TVs "Polymer cable enables do-it-yourself installations," project manager Sebastian Randel said Tuesday. Unlike optical fiber made from glass, "It's flexible and it's easy to cut and insert in connectors." The cable is around 1 millimeter thick, doesn't break easily, and can be cut with a razor blade, according to Randel. Although glass optical fiber, which is widely used in long-distance and local loop networks, can carry data at much higher speeds than the polymer version, it is also much thicker once wrapped in a protective shield, and breaks if bent too tightly, according to Randel. Cutting it cleanly to attach connectors or make joints requires a diamond blade, he said. Demand for easy-to-install, low-cost home networking systems is growing as new high-speed services such as IPTV (Internet Protocol television) hit the market. The twisted copper pair used in Ethernet networks is more of a competitor to polymer fiber in home networking because it is thinner and more flexible than glass optical fiber, Randel said. However, it's difficult to attach connectors, requiring special tools. While Wi-Fi eliminates the need for cables altogether, it can't guarantee constant and robust transmission required for services such as IPTV, according to Randel. Siemens researchers transmitted TV signals at 1008Mbps over a 100 meter-long test network, without errors or flickering on the screen, he said. Rather than transmit each bit as a pulse of light, they modulated the light signal using a technique similar to that used by DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) to send signals over copper wires, allowing each pulse of light to carry several bits of information. The overal effect was to increase the rate at which data was transmitted: Previous top speeds achieved over polymer were around 100Mbps. In addition to home networks, polymer cable could be used in factories, where rugged, low-cost cables are the standard, according to Siemens. Randel was unable to say when a 1Gbps polymer cable product would be available and what it would cost but said the Siemens research team proved that the technology works.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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PALO ALTO, Calif., March 13  /PRNewswire/ -- The Fiber Internet Center has completed installing a new high-speed fiber optic Internet connection to Creative Video Services, a leading-edge provider of video production and delivery services in the Bay Area.
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OTTAWA, June 13  /PRNewswire/ -- BTI Photonic Systems, a global supplier of microWDM networking solutions for the build-out of new high-speed broadband networks, today announced that Cogeco Cable has implemented its technology to support the roll out of new high-bandwidth services in Quebec.
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BEDMINSTER, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)â8 Octobre 2004--Siemens Communications va intÃ©grer la technologie FLASHOFDM (R) (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) Ã  son portefeuille de solutions mobiles haut dÃ©bit.
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(InfoWorld) - The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday. The goal of the center of excellence is to develop a healthy and profitable open-source software industry. Breton, previously head of France TÃ©lÃ©com SA, announced the plan at a news conference to discuss a new report on the French economy's future, "The intangible economy: tomorrow's growth." A new economic and technological model, built on free software, is forming in the IT industry, Breton said. As this new opportunity opens up, it is "calling into question the dominant positions formed in the software industry over the last 15 years." France must seize this opportunity, in a sector where the country is teeming with talent, he said. Breton hopes that sales of software and other intangibles will help the French economy grow by between 3 percent and 4 percent annually. In contrast, the Chinese economy, based on more tangible goods such as the export of computers, is growing at around 10 percent annually, according to figures from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. A group of academics and open-source software entrepreneurs have come together to create the center of excellence. Roberto Di Cosmo, professor at the University of Paris 7, will lead the group, assisted by Alexandre Zapolsky, chief executive officerÂ of open-source software services company Linagora SA. FranÃ§ois Bancilhon, CEO of Linux distributor Mandriva SA and StÃ©fane Fermigier, CEO of open-source enterprise content management software company Nuxeo SAS will also take part. The group's members said the center of excellence will allow the Paris region to renew its industrial base and slow the loss of jobs to low-cost locations. Although the Internet other tools have simplified virtual collaborative working, software development still needs a physical place, Di Cosmo said via e-mail. "It would be very naÃ¯ve to forget the importance of human contact, and the physical environment in which many projects grow before moving into the virtual phase. If everything is so simple in the virtual world, why are there so many developers' conferences?" he said. Explaining the choice of Paris as a center, Fermigier said, "We work with many people elsewhere, but the kernel is in the Paris region." While Breton is clearly most concerned with France's economic growth, the center will also contribute to the development of the software industry across the European Union, Fermigier said. The French government has published the report as a PDF file.
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Software on the Seine, anyone? Backup in Budapest? VTL from Vienna? And why not. Europeans have far more experience when it comes to dealing with data regulatory issues than we do.