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Qorvo introduced the first wideband Wi-Fi front-end module (FEM) covering the 5.1 GHz to 7.1 GHz bands for customer premises equipment (CPE). This enables full-frequency support for both Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E enterprise solutions. Tony Testa, Qorvo director of Technical Marketing, said, “Qorvo’s newest FEM is optimized to operate over 5 GHz, 6 GHz […]
NTT, in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, and RIKEN, unveiled an optical fiber-coupled quantum light source (squeezed light source) with the potential to serve as a building block for fault-tolerant, rack-sized, universal optical quantum computers. Squeezed light is described as a non-classical light that has an even number of photons and squeezed quantum noise. […]
NEC provided its packet core (5GC) and base stations (5G RUs, CU/DU) for the 5G standalone (SA)-based services that NTT DOCOMO launched commercially on December 13, 2021. NEC’s 5G Core for SA enables flexible operation for a variety of services thanks to its cloud-native architecture, featuring container and separation of Control and User Plane (CUPS). […]
Google Cloud has acquired Siemplify, a leading independent provider of security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), in a deal reportedly valued at approximately US$500 million. Siemplify was started in 2015 an is based in New York and Tel Aviv, Israel. Neither company confirmed the price. The cloud-native Siemplify platform enables enterprise and Service Provider security […]
AT&T added approximately 270,000 fiber subscribers in Q4 2021. Full-year 2021, fiber net adds totaled about 1.0 million, the fourth consecutive year in which the company has added 1 million or more fiber subscribers. AT&T ended the year with an additional 2.6 million fiber customer locations , compared to its prior expectation of about 2.5 […]
In direct response to hyperscale client demands, STACK Infrastructure unveiled plans for a new 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia. STACK said the new 80-acre Loudoun site will offer massive scalability with three buildings, totaling 216MW of capacity and nearly 1 million square feet. The campus will be powered by 100% renewable energy and served by […]
CoreSite, which is now a subsidiary of American Tower Corporation, announced its new executive leadership team: Juan Font, President of CoreSite and SVP of American Tower Anthony Hatzenbuehler, SVP, Data Center Operations Maile Kaiser, SVP, Sales and Marketing Aleks Krusko, SVP, IT and Digitization Leslie McIntosh, SVP, Human Resources Brian Warren, SVP, Development and Product […]
John Swieringa has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of DISH Wireless. He will be responsible for all operational aspects of DISH’s wireless business including the deployment and management of DISH’s virtualized, O-RAN 5G broadband network. Swieringa also will continue to lead DISH’s retail wireless business, and oversee day-to-day wireless activities. Swieringa’s direct reports […]
In a New Year message, Guo Ping, Rotating Chairman of Huawei, said the company achieved 2021 total revenue of 634 billion yuan. The figure represents a drop of approximately of 29% compared to 2020. In his letter, Huawei’s chairman said the the road ahead is long and hard, but that the company continues to pursue […]
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