"The combination of Cisco's and Luxtera's capabilities in 100GbE/400GbE optics, silicon and process technology will enable customers to build future-proof networks optimized for performance, reliability and cost," Salvagno wrote.
The Welsh government said energy connections were wholly a matter for the UK government, but added: "We recognise the importance of strengthening the grid in north Wales to future-proof the network.
Innovations in 'sustainable' photonics technologies such as free-space optical links and solar-powered equipment provide developing countries with new cost-effective opportunities for deploying future-proof telecommunication networks.
More firms are thinking about the need to future-proof their networks and TalkTalk recently announced its own big investment in infrastructure which will also bring full-fibre technology to 3 million homes and businesses.
That is the nature of digging in a city – though we might be doing it to future-proof our transport network or housing stock, as we burrow down through each layer of soil and rock, we uncover the everyday lives of those who went before.
"The network is future-proof," said Virginia Ruesterholz, the president of Verizon's telecommunications group, noting that the faster speeds are popular with gamers and people who watch video online.
When it was being created in the 1970s, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, the lead designers, were faced with two difficult tasks: how to design a system that seamlessly links lots of other networks, and how to design a network that is future-proof.
"We decided to going for a fibre network because it would be future-proof.
"The network we are putting in is pretty future-proof," he said.
That approach is always preferable when, as here, the goal of legal rules is to future-proof them as much as possible against unknown new technologies and network management imperatives yet to come.
Essentially, these new chipsets will enable handset manufacturers to make "future-proof" devices (as if!) that are capable of operating on today's 3G networks, and tomorrow's 4G networks.
