Since July 1, 2016, all members of the European Union have had to implement in their national laws Directive 2013/35/EU for the protection of persons from electromagnetic fields in the workplace.

TE Connectivity (TE) has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Intercontec Group. The transaction is expected to close by the end of September 2016, following regulatory approvals and the completion of various administrative matters.

Import Cable SL, with 20 years of experience in the IT connectivity market and headquartered in Madrid, supplies the entire country. As official distributors of some of the leading brands, it has continuously added new products to meet its customers' needs.

Avnet Silica, an Avnet, Inc. company, has announced partnerships with Arkessa, an M2M services provider; Spica Technologies Ltd, which offers cloud-based service solutions for capturing, managing, and presenting data; and UbiquiOS, an integrated software provider for managing on-premises and cloud connectivity.

ZTE Corporation has announced an unprecedented 800G high-speed single-carrier transmission, successfully transferring 120 Gbaud of signals by 16QAM wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) over 1,200 kilometers of fiber optic cables.

Acal BFi has announced a strategic partnership with Fujitsu to distribute across Europe a range of wireless modules and beacon devices, including the full family of Bluetooth® Low Energy modules.

Infinera announces that it has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to help accelerate the pace of innovation in telecommunications infrastructure.

The fiber optic division has grown rapidly in recent years and has expanded its portfolio with two acquisitions.

RS Components (RS), a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, a global distributor of engineered products, announces the signing of a global distribution agreement with Fischer Connectors.

RC. Microelectronica announces that it has reached an agreement with the North American company QPC Fiber Optic, Inc (http://www.qpcfiber.com/) for the distribution of its products in Spain and Portugal.

Genesis Technical Systems has completed trials of its enhanced, multi-award-winning DSL Rings network technology with leading North American operator Cincinnati Bell, Inc., achieving backhaul speeds of up to one gigabit and home broadband speeds of up to 400 Mb/s, significantly exceeding pre-trial expectations.

ZTE Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Telefónica for the development of 5G technologies. This partnership will strengthen ZTE's position as a strategic partner of Telefónica in the technology sector.

ZTE Corporation, together with Telefónica del Perú, has announced the commercial launch of the first IMS VoLTE IP multimedia voice subsystem network in Peru and for Telefónica Latin America.

PTV Telecom has partnered with Atos and Huawei to become a full-fledged Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). Atos is contributing its SMSC (Short Message Service), TAS (Telephony Application Server), and its portfolio of Telco Network Products and Services (TNP&S), which are integrated with Huawei's Core Network to enable PTV Telecom to become a full-fledged MVNO.

CEVA, Inc., IP signal processing licensee for smart, connected devices, congratulates the Bluetooth SIG on its announcement of Bluetooth 5, the latest evolution of its low-power wireless IoT standard.

Considering only internet traffic, we see that it has increased twentyfold since the early 1990s, according to various industry sources. This trend will continue to rise, and according to Gartner, globally, “the number of organizations requiring new global network services continues to increase due to globalization and the recent adoption of cloud services.”.

Fibernet has a fiber network monitoring system (Fibersec) that allows you to know the status of all the fibers in an infrastructure in real time, detect any anomaly along the optical path and locate the point km. where the problem is occurring.

ZTE Corporation has announced the completion of verification and performance testing of its high-frequency 5G communication and MIMO technology in Shanghai and Shenzhen. The tests, organized by the Chinese IMT-2020 (5G) promotion group, were conducted in both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments, meeting all expectations.

Acal BFi announces the signing of a pan-European distribution agreement with inno-spec. This agreement allows Acal BFi to incorporate hyperspectral systems into its extensive product range.

Global IP traffic will almost triple in the next five years, reaching 2.3 Zettabytes [i] annually (194.4 Exabytes monthly) in 2020 from 870 Exabytes annually recorded in 2015 (72.5 Exabytes monthly), representing a year-on-year increase rate of 22 percent between 2015 and 2020.