Today at the FTTH Conference 2019, the latest figures from the FTTH Market Panorama prepared by IDATE were published, including forecasts for 2020 and 2025.

Market overview and key findings:

ZTE has announced a strategic agreement with the Netgem Group to offer home solutions to European fiber optic operators. Under the agreement, ZTE will provide device dossiers and a roadmap focused on cost-effective production capacity and long-term financing. In turn, the Netgem Group will offer European multi-service TV providers, along with software and content, expertise in connected home solutions.

Cisco has announced the appointment of Andreu Vilamitjana as the new General Manager of Cisco Spain, who will head the Board of Directors in Spain, leading all Cisco activities in the country.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. today announced the industry's first successful demonstration of a new IP data transfer call using 5G New Radio (NR) with MediaTek's Helio M70 multimode modem with integrated baseband.

Vertiv, in conjunction with technology analyst firm 451 Research, has published the results of a survey revealing strong optimism about the services that 5G will enable and its interaction with edge computing. The majority of telecom operators surveyed believe the 5G era will begin its global rollout by 2021, with 88 percent of respondents planning to implement 5G by 2021-2022.

Telefónica has presented the first prototype of an open access network in a triple convergence scenario of fixed, mobile and edge computing, to facilitate the incorporation of new network technology providers and the provision of new services.

Telefónica and Microsoft Corp. have announced a strategic alliance to collaborate on projects aimed at accelerating innovation at Telefónica and transforming the telecommunications sector. The agreement builds upon the joint work the two companies have already undertaken in data utilization and on Telefónica's Fourth Platform, which has supported the development of new services such as Aura, the company's AI-powered digital assistant.

According to this year's (2017-2022) Cisco VNI Mobile forecast update, mobile traffic is poised to reach one zettabyte annually by the end of the forecast period. By 2022, mobile traffic will account for nearly 20% of global IP traffic, reaching 930 exabytes annually. This is almost 113 times the total global mobile traffic generated just ten years earlier, in 2012.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has announced that Telefónica has selected visibility solutions from Ixia, a Keysight company, to provide a homogeneous, scalable, and effective visibility architecture to monitor its physical and virtual networks worldwide.

Pay attention to Lenovo laptops and servers, as well as many other internet-connected devices. Policy regulators in the US and EU have focused on communications network equipment from Huawei and ZTE, indicating that certain products should be restricted, if not outright banned. Strand Consult has been reporting on China's role in global communications networks and 5G for some time.

Optoscribe, a supplier of 3D glass-based integrated photonic components, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, a supplier of fiber optic cable and component manufacturing technology, have announced a strategic cooperation to provide multi-core fiber (MCF) components for telecommunications and data applications.

Mayflex reports that it has signed a distribution agreement with Global Invacom. The agreement will allow Mayflex and Global Invacom to target multi-family housing projects by connecting them with systems integrators, consultants, and end users.

The 16th edition of Integrated Systems Europe, held at the RAI Amsterdam from February 5-8, was the largest and most far-reaching edition yet, confirming its status as the international destination for AV market professionals.

During the Munich Security Conference in February 2018, nine organizations signed the world's first joint charter for enhanced cybersecurity. A year later, the Charter of Trust has grown to 16 members. In addition to Siemens and the Munich Security Conference, the members are AES, Airbus, Allianz, Atos, Cisco, Daimler, Dell Technologies, Deutsche Telekom, Enel, IBM, NXP, SGS, Total, and TÜV Süd. Now, the Charter of Trust welcomes two government authorities as associate members for the first time: Spain's National Cryptologic Center (CCN) and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), one of the most important institutions for cybersecurity experts.

A research team led by Jonathan Ajo-Franklin of Berkeley Lab’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) is converting parts of a nearly 21,000km-long “dark fiber” testbed owned by the DOE’s ESE into a highly sensitive seismic activity sensor.

Microlease and Electro Rent in Europe today announced the start of the integration of their European operations. The two companies will merge in the coming months to join the global Electro Rent Corporation. The Microlease and Livingston brands will also be consolidated under Electro Rent during this time.

Smartrac Technology Group, a provider of RFID products and IoT solutions, and Sasken Technologies Ltd., a provider of product engineering services and digital transformation, today announced a strategic technology partnership for IoT solutions.

Ericsson Spain hosted the first plenary meeting of the European 5G-EVE program (https://www.5g-eve.eu/) between February 4 and 6. The program currently has twenty-eight partners from seven countries, including four of the main European operators and six organizations from vertical sectors.

Entrepreneurs from Madrid have launched Redexia, the first national LoRaWAN network in Spain dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT). While most countries have one or more national LoRa networks, Spain did not yet have a nationwide LoRa network. Redexia's rollout is being carried out gradually, and the company expects to achieve full national coverage within three years.

ZTE announces that it has completed the first phase of testing for Core 5G in SA (stand alone) with China Telecom actively promoting the development of 5G technology.