As promised (apart from being a little late) here’s an update on what’s going on in the International Standards body for “customer premises cabling”. This group goes under the snappy little title of ISO/IEC...

This year’s General Meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the largest ever. Of course, being held in America, it just had to be bigger than anything that anyone else had done. There...

A recurrent theme throughout many of the technical presentations at ECOC was “what happens after 100G”. Different aspects of this theme were addressed in a variety of symposia, workshops and technical sessions. It certainly...

Well here I am in Turin in Northern Italy for this year’s ECOC. On Sunday there was a series of workshops covering topical areas. I attended the morning session on Distributed Sensing Measurements, as...

This year’s European Conference on Optical Communications will be held in Turin, Italy in September www.ecoc2010.org. The conference is one of the world’s major technical conferences where the latest developments in Optical Communications are...

On a recent training course with some delegates from Saudi Arabia, we were inevitably discussing the weather. The delegates were pleased to be escaping the 52 degrees Celsius temperatures of Riyadh and didn’t mind...