AWS partners with Ningxia Western Cloud Data for 2nd data center region in China
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has formed a strategic partnership with Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd. (NWCD). AWS will ...
Month: December 2017
Iron Mountain to acquire IO Data Centers U.S. for $1.3B
Iron Mountain agreed to acquire the U.S. operations of IO Data Centers LLC, a colocation data center services provider based ...
FirstNet adds “Ruthless Preemption” feature
FirstNet, which in partnership with AT&T is building the nationwide public safety broadband network, announced the release of "ruthless preemption" ...
Zayo to provide European Dark Fiber to Global Webscale Company
Zayo announced a major contract to provide a global webscale company (not named) with significant amounts of dark fiber in ...
Tencent deploys Mellanox RDMA and Intelligent Interconnect Acceleration Engines
Tencent Cloud has adopted Mellanox interconnect solutions for its high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) public cloud offering. Specifically, ...
Verizon opens 5G incubator in NYC’s Silicon Alley
Verizon opened a 5G-enabled Open Innovation lab in New York’s Silicon Alley. The facility, which was created in partnership with ...
Fiber Broadband Association elects Kevin Morgan as Chair
Kevin Morgan has been elected to the position of Chairman-Elect for the Fiber Broadband Association (formerly the Fiber to the ...
Corning to acquire 3M’s communications division for $900 million
Corning agreed to acquire 3M’s Communication Markets Division in a cash transaction valued at approximately $900 million. This business consists ...
Ericsson confirms 5G contract with Verizon
Ericsson will provide the 5G Core network, 5G Radio Access Network (RAN), transport and associated services for Verizon's commercial 5G ...
Colt cuts Tokyo-London latency to under 159 milliseconds
Colt Technology Services has cut network latency between the Tokyo to London financial centres to less than 159 milliseconds. Lower ...
Acacia ships pluggable coherent CFP2-DCO module for 100/200G
Acacia Communications has begun commercial shipment of a new pluggable coherent CFP2-DCO module supporting 100 Gbps and 200 Gbps transmission ...
Elliott Advisors says Qualcomm’s bid for NXP is too low
Elliott Advisors (UK), which advises funds that collectively hold an economic interest in NXP Semiconductors of approximately 6%, published an ...
Menlo Security raises $40M for cloud-based threat isolation
Menlo Security, which offers a cloud-based isolation platform that prevents web-based malware from infecting local machines by running the browser ...
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