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TOWARDS AN ACCELERATED FTTH DEPLOYMENT IN MOROCCO

March 1, 2021 FTTH

Recently Huawei presented, during the forum organized by Samena in Dubai on November 19, 2020, hybrid solutions using radio in the transport network, to facilitate the deployment of FTTH in certain places. In all countries, telecommunications played a key role with the advent of the Covid19 crisis. All players in this sector have mobilized to successfully manage the traffic ... Read More »

FTTX access networks

March 1, 2021 FTTH

By Nawfel Azami, fiber optic expert in Morocco Transmission technologies have evolved to integrate optical technologies even in access networks, and as close as possible to the subscriber. Fiber optic networks have established themselves as the transmission medium par excellence, due to their ability to propagate over long distances without signal regeneration, and because of their low latency and their ... Read More »

Sharing infrastructure within the framework of FTTH

March 1, 2021 FTTH

In Morocco, the deployment of very high speed through optical fiber is provided by the three main operators via 4G technology or via FTTH. Very high-speed optical fiber access networks are in the process of partially or totally replacing existing local copper loops. Previously, optical fiber was initially deployed point-to-point. Today, with the advent of FTTH or Fiber to the ... Read More »

5G, phantasies!

March 1, 2021 Telecom

For almost a year, social networks have seized the health crisis to make it their favorite subject. This topic is starting to get boring however, especially that we have the impression that behind every Internet user hides a potential doctor who refutes what some say or approves what others say. So as not to add to the outdated debate on ... Read More »

G-interview with Peter schultz

March 1, 2021 FTTH

Mr. Peter Schultz, co-inventor of optical fiber, gave an interview to Lte Magazine (Khaouja) on the future of fiber optics (the original interview was conducted in English): Lte magazine: currently, we transmit one hundred terabits per second over a single strand of optical fiber. Will we one day reach a theoretical limit of optical fiber that we can not exceed? Mr. ... Read More »

The search for unity is the engine of great physicists.

March 1, 2021 Open Forum

Unintentionally perhaps, science sometimes manages to unify phenomena which seem to be distant in appearance. Thus, at the beginning of the 1980s in the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratories (CERN) in Geneva, the electromagnetic force, exerting its influence over relatively large distances, was unified with the weak nuclear force, force acting at the heart of the atomic nucleus and ... Read More »

In the metaverse world, designed using several technologies, each user will have their own avatar, a kind of digital "self", that is to say, an imaginary character they will choose to represent them in this virtual place. Let us recall in passing that the word "metaverse" is made up of "meta" which means transcendent and "vers" which implies "to turn" that has produced several words such as universe, conversation and many more... The metaverse or web 3.0 revolution comes down to the fact that we will not be content, as usual, to look at the screen of our computers, but we will also be completely immersed in the Internet via headsets. Even if the real metaverse networks are, for the moment, at the development stage, several sectors are already rushing to invest in them because, they believe, the metaverse constitutes a new Eldorado to conquer. Thus, brands are already there, such as the “Carrefour” chain, which recently organized virtual job interviews via the Sandbox platform. All the major American firms in the ICT industry crave these new metaverse markets; the GAFAMs (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) as well as their Chinese counterparts, the BATXs (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi) are working hard to conquer a market that is barely emerging. Each giant, American or Chinese, wants to grab a good share of this great and very promising business, since the Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts, that this brand-new activity will attain a turnover of over 800 billion dollars by 2024. For metaverse to function properly at the global level, it is necessary to implement a standardization of the various processes. The metaverse will also require powerful computer processing and sophisticated electronic hardware. Intel, for example, estimates that metaverse requires a 1000-fold increase in the computing power of current computers. Is it already in quantum computing? Metaverse will have, among other advantages, the possibility of offering distance training of such quality that it will be difficult to distinguish the virtual from face-to-face. On the other hand, because of their helmets, metaverse users will have to master the geometric space where they operate. This will be the great challenge for the "metaversers" not to increase the number of accidents as the statistics are beginning to point to serious and real risks. Without neglecting some psychological aspects of this new revolution, such as attachment to one's digital "self" and preferring the virtual world to the detriment of reality and living in society. Several studies have already raised the possibility of users becoming irrationally attached to their avatars, as what it happened to a journalist from the British Times, who spent several hours on a metaverse platform, thus, concluded that the metaverse seems to encourage anti-social behavior. The other drawback, which is not negligible and which will be the subject of Lte magazine next publication, is the environmental impact of the metaverse. In short, metaverse technology seems to be well engaged on the right path, unless the supply of the electronic elements necessary for the metaverse networks is also, being impacted by the current crisis in the global supply chain of electronic components. This file will therefore be simple and complete, starting with this first article which deals with the metaverse in seven points and which will help to better understand everything related to this new technology, and will also propose some expected applications of the metaverse. Furthermore, the legal aspect will be presented as a necessity for the regulation of the metaverse world, and finally, this file will be closed by an interview carried out with Guillaume, an expert in the field of metaverse at Digitevent in France. In the free forum, Ata-ilah Khaouja will review the burning energy news around "Textual sobriety, energetic intoxication". In the telecom section, we will offer you an exceptionally rich article on the history of telecoms, which will retrace, more precisely, the emergence of Moroccan telecoms within the medina of Rabat. And as always, other relevant reading awaits you in the other sections, notably in “events” and “media library”. Ahmed Khaouja ITU expert and director Lte magazine.