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AVM expands its presence in Spain with the launch of its Premium Partner Program. This new channel program is aimed at select distributors and resellers seeking to enhance their market specialization and differentiation by selling the German company's routers, Wi-Fi repeaters, PLC adapters, and other networking products.

Copper had its moment of glory in the late 19th century, when it outperformed all other metals (such as iron or aluminum) for carrying the first voice calls. Over the decades, it was repurposed to support the first internet connections. However, as the speed requirements of digital connections increased, copper cables became insufficient to support the new equipment.

Nokia has announced the successful completion of a network trial with TIM using Nokia's fifth-generation PSE-Vs super coherent optics. The trial demonstrated 600G transmission over a 1008 km live link on TIM's terrestrial backbone network in Italy. This trial sets new benchmarks for spectral efficiency in a real-world network and enables TIM to increase its optical network capacity and support 400 Gigabit Ethernet (400GE) services on its long-haul network.

Viavi Solutions Inc. today released new industry data revealing that the number of cities with 5G networks has now reached 1,947 worldwide. Despite the pandemic, 5G cities came online at a rate of nearly two per day, with 635 new 5G cities added in 2021, according to Viavi's new report, "The State of 5G," now in its sixth year.

OPS-SAT is a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite, the first of its kind designed solely to test and validate new mission control techniques and onboard systems. This “flying laboratory,” launched on December 18, 2019, as a secondary payload alongside the CHEOPS mission, is configured to demonstrate the improvements in mission control capabilities that result directly from the use of very powerful onboard computers.

Spain is one of the leading European countries in both coverage and penetration of FTTH fiber connections. But, in the shadow of this deployment (and the term is quite apt), there is another fiber network: the one known as dark fiber, which in Spain comprises almost two million kilometers of cabling.

Over the past two years, we've seen a surge in remote work, leading to increased demand for greater flexibility in network management and security teams. The race to adopt the cloud, deploy IoT devices, digitally transform business operations, and upgrade to new software has also added complexity and reduced visibility into enterprise networks.

Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connections reached 12.8 million lines at the end of January 2022, according to telecommunications market data published by CNMCData. Monthly growth was 70,229 lines. Movistar accounts for 37.9% of all FTTH lines, with a total of 4.9 million. Year-on-year, compared to January 2021, the increase of 1.2 million FTTH lines stands out, while DSL lines decreased by 0.5 million.
 


Teldat has become part of the Spanish hub Gaia-X, an initiative created to promote and support the competitiveness of the data economy and to be a forum for debate and proposals among the agents of the data sharing ecosystem at the national level.

Gaixa-X seeks to generate a stable and permanent collaboration framework to promote the sharing and safe, transparent and practical use of data in Spain, accompanying the alignment with the government's digitization guidelines and plans of various sectoral working groups.

Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) and AVIXA announce the second edition of the AV Experience Zone, a four-day event taking place as part of ISE 2022 (FIRA de Barcelona, ​​May 10-13) designed to bring end customers in Spain closer to the professional audiovisual (AV) industry and integration companies.

Alongside the Digital Signage Avenue in Hall 6, the ISE Retail Showcase, sponsored by Econocom (Hall 6, Stand 6A200), will take visitors on a journey through the ultimate frictionless retail experience. Focusing on usability and real-world scenarios, this 160 m² stand recreates a range of retail environments to highlight the latest technologies.

Nokia and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. have announced that the two companies have demonstrated the first live transmission of 1 Tb/s per channel over Rakuten Mobile’s commercial dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) network, representing a 500% speed increase over Rakuten Mobile’s existing 200 Gb/s network. The test took place over two days in January 2022 and connected data centers located 135 km apart in the Kanto region of Japan.

There are only six weeks left until ISE 2022 opens its doors for the first time in Barcelona, ​​and with seven conferences, around 800 exhibitors spread across six Technology Zones and a whole series of halls, experiences and features of the fairgrounds, it is shaping up to be an attractive, informative and revealing week at Fira Barcelona, ​​Gran Via.

According to the results of a global survey conducted by Molex, which examines the pace of innovation accelerating the development of next-generation vehicle architectures and driving experiences, participants expressed optimism about the increasing adoption of digital technologies, but also identified difficult challenges in the technology, automotive sector, and ecosystem that must be overcome to meet the demands of vehicles equipped with software, storage, connectivity, and computing capabilities: essentially, a powerful “data center on wheels.”

EFFECT Photonics and Jabil Photonics have announced their intention to jointly develop a new generation of coherent optical modules. These modules provide a solution for network operators and hyperscalers seeking high-end performance with small-size, low-power, low-cost QSFP-DDs, field replaceability, and vendor interoperability for cloud-based DCI (Data Center Interconnects).

D-Link has announced its support for the “Digitize your town” initiative, created at the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineers (ETSIT) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), by RuralízaTech, a group of students and professors committed to the demographic problem of depopulated Spain.

Nokia has announced a wide range of upgrades for its next-generation Packet Optical Transport Network (P-OTN) solutions needed by CSPs that offer wholesale services.

Integrated Systems Europe looks forward to welcoming visitors from around the world to ISE 2022, which will take place at Fira de Barcelona Gran Via from May 10-13. With confidence in international travel growing, the show is shaping up to be a vibrant return to live events since the start of the pandemic.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has announced that its S8705A RF/RRM and DVT Conformance Toolkit was used to obtain PTCRB validation of use cases that accelerate the certification of 5G devices that support carrier aggregation (CA) technology using the frequency range 1 (FR1) spectrum.

Driven by the rapid migration to digital technology, the media and broadcasting sector has entered an era of experimentation and reinvention defined by fewer rules and fewer boundaries. While consumers benefit from access to a wealth of new content and ideas, for the industry, 2022 will be a pivotal and defining year.