The Telecommunications laboratories consist of a suite of three experimental facilities which have recently benefitted from a £1M investment. The state-of-the-art optical communications system laboratory is equipped with the equipment required to undertake optical transmission and data processing experiments at symbol rates of up to 640 Gbaud and DWDM experiments at channel counts of up to 40 wavelengths. The laboratory has immediate access to the Aurora dark fibre line, allowing transmission experimentation in an installed fibre link.