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Nearly ten days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, 88.3% of cell sites across the island remain out of service, according to the FCC. The figure is basically unchanged in the past few days. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, 68.9% of cell sites remain down. All of the cell sites in St. John are still […]
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Ajit Pai for a second term as chairman of the FCC. Ajit Varadaraj Pai was nominated for FCC Commissioner by President Obama in 2011. Pai took over the seat abandoned by Meredith Baker who left the FCC to take a job as a lobbyist for Comcast. Pai was previously […]
Larry Ellison introduced what he calls “the world’s first, 100%, self-driving, self-scaling and self-repairing Autonomous Database. Oracle 18c, which will be released later this year, uses machine learning to eliminate human labor involved with managing the database. The automation includes upgrades, security patches and tuning to ensure a 99.995% uptime guarantee. Ellison claims this automation […]
VIRTUS Data Centres announced plans two new buildings at its eight-acre campus near Stockley Park, West London. The new two facilities, known as LONDON5 and LONDON6, measure 34,475m2 and are designed to deliver 40MW of IT load. LONDON5 is expected to be ready in early 2018. The VIRTUS campus is 16 miles from central London […]
by James E. Carroll Telstra faces scrutiny as it prepares for further transformation The headline from Saturday’s The Sydney Morning Herald on 19-August-2017 reads “End of the line: Telstra’s day of reckoning has arrived.” At issue is shareholder discontent following a disappointing fiscal year, shrinking dividends, and rising competition. Earlier in the week Telstra’s CEO […]
365 Data Centers, which operates eight data centers across the U.S., has acquired two data centers in southeast Florida markets. Financial terms were not disclosed. The properties are located in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale and offer approximately 62,000 square feet of floor space, 8,000 square feet of business continuity space, 4.5 MW of power, […]
IBM has acquired Cloudigo, a start-up based in Israel focused on advanced networking technology that moves the networking function from the server to the edge. Financial terms were not disclosed. IBM said Cloudigo will work with its Cloud Innovation Lab, which is part of the IBM Cloud Infrastructure group.
Dimension Data has appointed Ross Wainwright as Chief Executive Officer of Dimension Data in the Americas. Wainwright will report to Dimension Data’s Group CEO, Jason Goodall. Prior to joining Dimension Data, Ross was SAP’s Chief Customer Officer for its S/4HANA Cloud business unit. Before this, he was Global Head of Financial Services with an end-to-end […]
Pacific Wave International Exchange and its peering and science DMZ fabrics will be extended to Texas’s Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN) and Oklahoma’s OneNet thanks to support from the National Science Foundation. The Pacific Wave SDX, which is a project of the Corporation for Education Networking in California (CENIC) and Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), […]
Telia wants to be among the first carriers worldwide to deploy commercial 5G and is working with Ericsson and Intel to ensure this happens. The first use cases, which was tested in September, uses 5G to deliver Internet access to a cruise ship moored in Tallinn harbour. “We want to be early with 5G and […]
Nokia is taking a leading role in the Broadband Forum’s new Broadband Access Abstraction (BAA) project, which seeks to drive the adoption of software-defined access networks through the contribution of open source software, uniting vendors and operators to ensure they are aligned with industry specifications to meet the needs of operators globally. Specifically, the BAA […]
Orange Business Services announced a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver large-scale, end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for the manufacturing sector. Orange Business Services offers many IoT connectivity options, including LoRa. Use cases range from supply chain and smart inventory management to digital operations, such as predictive maintenance, employee safety and facility and equipment management. […]
Xtera, which supplies un-repeatered and repeatered subsea connectivity using high bandwidth undersea amplifiers, was awarded a contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), to build a new regional submarine cable system. Financial terms were not disclosed. Xtera said the new submarine cable system for DISA […]
