Are In-Line Amplifiers ready for the age of AI?
ILA fiber huts have changed little in the last 30 years, but do they now need to as we rush into a new era?
Long Reads - Telecoms & 5G, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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UK ISPs and altnets on Openreach’s telephone exchange exits
DCD talks to Zen, Netomnia, CityFibre, Neos Networks, and APFN about the UK’s upcoming mass exchange closure
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Copper exchanges in all shapes and sizes
A dive into the history of telephone exchanges in the UK
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History exchange: London telephone exchanges in focus
DCD looks at some of the more notable telephone exchanges in London
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BT’s landlord looms large over the UK’s telephone exchanges
What's to become of the UK's old telephone exchanges?
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The end of the line: The UK’s copper switch-off
How BT & Openreach are approaching the end of copper
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Copper gets the cold shoulder
The end is nigh amid the global fiber rollout
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Copper to colo: Ziply’s plan to repurpose its Central Offices
The data center opportunity in telco infrastructure from the 1960s
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Cogent’s colo journey: Dave Schaeffer on the company’s new data center ambitions
Turning Sprint’s wireline real estate into a new data center portfolio
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How did Iberian operators fare in the great power cut?
Data center operators keep their lights on, but could telco companies have done better during in Spain's worst ever power cut?
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Paying the premium: Why 2023 was a bad year for space insurance
Last year was the worst ever in the space insurance market – could satellite innovation be stifled as a result?
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Houthi crisis in Red Sea spurs interest in alternative fiber routes
Eyes have long been focused on deploying fiber cable routes to avoid Egypt, but now attentions are turning to bypassing Yemen, too
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The Houthis and the Red Sea: A new risk to subsea cables
Intentional or otherwise, terrorists are now a threat to global connectivity
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DCD Magazine out now: 3D printing a data center
Would you print a data center?
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Space comes for fiber: Can satellites offer data centers a new resiliency option?
SES pitches its new mPower fleet as a viable alternative to fiber for telcos and data center operators
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Dedicated Regions: Bringing cloud on-premise
Vodafone talks about its journey with Oracle OCI
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Self-sufficient cell towers; when will cell sites go off-grid en masse?
On-site solar and wind are growing, but can cell sites ever be independent of the grid at scale?
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The last mile: At the Edge with drone delivery
How drones and last-mile delivery interact with the Edge
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Submarine cables find new impetus under hyperscalers
The tides of subsea cable trends are changing rapidly amid new investments and development
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What is a submarine cable? Subsea fiber explained
Our wireless world depends on a few hundred fiber cables laid on the ocean floor
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Edge radio networks need government support
Banning Huawei from mobile infrastructure might cripple the Edge rollout - unless governments can give real support to the open alternatives
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SPACs are coming for the data center industry. Will the bubble burst before they can get there?
Investors and companies are treating SPAC mergers like VC funding rounds, and the trend is coming to data centers
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OpenRAN healthcheck; is it succeeding in its goals?
The Edge will rely on 5G and other radio communications which can be expensive and proprietary. OpenRAN might change that, but it’s still being finished
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Just how resilient are satellites?
They’ve become integral to our world, but how robust are the satellites on which we depend?