Following its debut in 2019, the Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density 800 (QSFP-DD800) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group has announced the release of a new hardware specification for the QSFP-DD800 transceiver form factor.

Researchers at the University of Southampton's Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics have demonstrated a new leap in hollow-core fiber performance, underlining the technology's potential to soon eclipse current optical fibers.

Farnell has published a new study on the Internet of Things (IoT) that confirms the strong adoption of artificial intelligence in IoT devices and shows new insights regarding the main markets, enablers, and concerns of design engineers working in IoT.

By 2023, 5G networks will support more than 10% of all mobile connections globally. The average 5G speed will be 575 megabits per second, 13 times faster than the average mobile connection. With optimized performance, 5G will provide more dynamic mobile infrastructure for AI and emerging IoT applications, including autonomous vehicles, smart cities, connected healthcare, and immersive video, among others.

The Galician Textile Industry Confederation (COINTEGA – Textile and Fashion Cluster) and the Galician startup Bionix Supplychain Technologies will launch a demonstration center for RFID technologies. The aim is to showcase and make available to companies the advantages that this technology offers for supply chain management.

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), Mobile World Capital Barcelona, ​​the Catalan Government, and Vodafone have installed commercial 5G coverage between the Plaça Espanya and Europa Fira stations. This project is part of the network of laboratories for testing 5G technology that 5G Barcelona is promoting in the city.

Orange and Nokia have completed a standalone 5G data call using commercial equipment on a virtualized native core network architecture in Nokia's cloud and Mediatek terminals compliant with version 15 of the 3GPP standard. 

Nokia has announced that Angola Cables is testing Nokia's Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the United States and Africa.

Siemens and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have deployed the first private 5G network in a real-world industrial environment using the 3.7-3.8 GHz band. The two companies joined forces on this project: Siemens provided the real-world industrial test conditions and end devices, such as SIMATIC control systems and IoT devices, while Qualcomm supplied the 5G test network and related equipment.

On the 14th, the second phase of the so-called second digital dividend begins, in which more than 1,400 municipalities in Madrid, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Catalonia and some municipalities in Aragon, the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León will have to move the DTT channels from the 700 MHz band to the 600 MHz band (from 470 MHz to 694 MHz), in order to free up about 100 MHz (from 694 MHz to 790 MHz) and be able to carry out the deployment of the 5G network.

A team of scientists, including a researcher from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, has developed a novel method based on neural networks to predict wind energy production, which will allow for optimization of its reliability.

The Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, based at the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, has announced significant advances in hollow core fiber (HCF) technology.

Cisco has successfully tested the operation of its Network Convergence System (NCS) 1004 platform on MAREA, the 6,600-kilometer submarine cable system that connects the United States with Southern Europe, from Virginia Beach (Virginia) to Bilbao (Sopelana beach, Spain).

Indra and Fundación Universia, which has the support of Banco Santander for the development of its activities, have launched the IV Call for aid to applied research projects for the creation of new accessible technologies, which for the first time invites undergraduate and postgraduate students from Spanish universities to submit their proposals to create a more inclusive society through technology.

Mobile operators have received further confirmation that Wi-Fi connectivity will play a critical role in the success of 5G, as illustrated in a new technical document developed by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance.

“Today, if you look at Fibre Channel in relation to high-speed Ethernet, there’s no comparison. The future is Ethernet, and yet some media storage manufacturers continue to promote Fibre Channel, which presents real risks for their customers,” explained Oliver Gappa.

In 2016, ZTE and the federal state of Carinthia entered into a digitalization partnership with the goal of making Carinthia Europe's leading digital region. In October 2018, this partnership moved forward with the clear objective of strengthening Carinthia as a hub for mobility, tourism, and business through the use of 5G technology.

Indra is working within the T-Shark research program, which is part of the European Sparta project, to provide the EU with cyber situational awareness capabilities to monitor, detect and respond quickly to any threat, thus protecting the digital economy and the rights of its citizens in cyberspace.

Millimeter-wave technology will achieve data transmission speeds previously only possible with fiber optics. The radio frequency spectrum, the cornerstone of wireless telecommunications, is a finite resource that must be managed efficiently to meet the demands of the exponential growth of wireless internet access. Researchers at IMDEA Networks have developed a novel communications architecture for future ultrafast wireless networks that promises to achieve data speeds previously only possible with fiber optics.

multi-core fiber (MCF) testbed^first (SDM) communications^multiplexed in a real-world field environment. This initiative is part of an experimental research project to help strengthen the telecommunications infrastructure of the city of L'Aquila, following the 2009 earthquake that devastated much of the city center.