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Netherlands hits 3 million fibre optic connections On February 8th 2019 it was announced that the Netherlands had clocked up 3 million fibre optic connections. The we have really started to gain momentum with the installation of fibre optics across the country. Particularly in the outlying area, various parties are That is the ambition of the government that we work with together with businesses and local authorities,” added State 150,000 addresses from eight different provinces will be able to use fast Internet,” forecast Glasvezel buitenaf director Michiel Admiraal. “Every day about 1,500
announcement was made at a ceremony attended by Mona Keijzer, Dutch State Secretary of Economic Affairs and Climate, and representatives from national broadband trade association NLconnect, the contractor
Secretary Keijzer. “We are a global leader with our digital infrastructure, so we have to take steps now to stay that way. That is necessary, because in the coming years all kinds of daily affairs will be continuously connected to the Internet: cars, agriculture, healthcare, robots, but also household appliances.” “In the countryside, fast Internet was not a matter of course for years. Since 2015 we have been engaged in the construction of optical fibre in the outlying areas of the Netherlands. Soon
people are working for us to realise this. The expertise we have built up with this is desperately needed to connect our ambition to include the approximately 150,000 remaining rural addresses.”
actively involved, but increasingly successful projects are also taking place in nuclei (centres) and on industrial estates,” explained Mathieu Andriessen, director of NLconnect. “Contractors, suppliers, grid managers and providers work with joint efforts to make the Gigabit future possible. There is still a lot of work to be done, but this milestone confirms that we are on the right track.” “Fast Internet, available everywhere and for everyone: fixed and mobile.
GNT, and rural fibre network company Glasvezel buitenaf.
The Dutch research firm Stratix publishes an annual tally of fibre
The milestone customer was the De Neeth farm museum/educational establishment on the outskirts of Aalten. “As a broadband industry,
optic connections in the Netherlands. In 2018 the national total increased by 200,000. This represented a doubling compared to the year before.
Emtelle launches dedicated fibre solutions team for operators
European institute taps iXblue for Sicilian geodetic mission
iXblue, which provides solutions for navigation, subsea positioning and underwater imaging, has been chosen by the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) to provide eight Canopus LBL transponders for a major geodetic mission off the coast of Sicily. Deployed on the seabed, 2,500 metres below the North-South Alfeo faults with a millimetre-scale resolution over the course of four years. Hubert Pelletier, head of iXblue Acoustic division, commented, “Because the Canopus transponders precisely meet the exacting requirements of such a long-term subsea project, iXblue was chosen to provide autonomous and continuous monitoring of the movements of the tectonic plates along a two-kilometre segment of the North-South Alfeo faults. Installed on the seafloor along the faults, our transponder network will measure, over surface, the Canopus transponder network will measure the crustal deformation along the
the next four years, the acoustic distance travel- time from one transponder to another to precisely determine their accurate distance. Therefore, the IUEM will then be able to better characterise the way the fault behaves and will gain valuable insight into seismic risks.” Enhancing iXblue’s offer in subsea positioning solutions, the Canopus LBL transponder was developed in tight collaboration with several major scientific partners. It is designed for scientific and industrial applications that require high autonomy, instrumentation, repeatability and accuracy. With its hundreds of acoustic codes for environments without any acoustic interferences. It features underwater acoustic communication between transponders, transceivers and surface equipment and embeds environmental temperature, pressure, sound velocity and inclinometer sensors. interrogation and reply, Canopus can be used in the most complex
Emtelle, a provider of blown fibre, cabling and ducted solutions for the FTTx industry, has created
cost-effective” path to new fibre installations, as demand for new technologies like 5G and the Internet of Things “places more and more pressure on their existing infrastructures.” during 2019 by revealing new solutions capable of “opening up accessibility” for new deployments and “strengthening capabilities to enable future-proof deployments.” Emtelle said it will expand its portfolio Tony Rodgers, CEO at Emtelle, said: “Colin is a respected industry leader in the development of passive network infrastructure solutions and his twenty-five years’ expertise has paved the way for his appointment. He will further our commitment to developing and offering new market leading solutions, combining the highest value with the lowest total cost of ownership.” Kirkpatrick already held senior positions at the company before taking on the new role at the company’s headquarters in Hawick, Scotland.
a dedicated solutions team to design, test and manufacture new
systems on behalf of new customers. Focusing on developing new products and solutions that can be quickly brought to market, the new solutions team will be headed by Colin Kirkpatrick as solutions director. He said: “As a blown fibre and ducted dedicated solutions team is the next logical step for Emtelle.” He said: “The development will build on our existing offering and allow us to partner with operators to create tailor-made solutions for their specific needs – something which is becoming increasingly important as new network challenges emerge.” Kirkpatrick said the team will ensure that operators have the “easiest and most networks technology leader with a proven portfolio, creating a
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