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Customer spending on smartNICs grew strongly during full-year 2021, resulting in revenues reaching $1.5 billion, according to a recent report from Crehan Research Inc. The report further shows that smartNIC shipments comprised about 10 percent of total server-class NIC volumes. “SmartNICs have an outsize revenue impact relative to shipments, due to their price premiums […]
O-RAN ALLIANCE will host 22 demos at the upcoming MWC Barcelona 2022 as well as 24 additional demos online at the O-RAN Virtual Exhibition. Here are highlights. Intelligent RAN control demos Ericsson presents its approach to SMO as an enabler of automation and value creation in the context of open innovation with rApps. Ericsson Intelligent […]
Juniper Networks has acquired WiteSand, a start-up specializing in cloud-native zero trust Network Access Control (NAC) solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. The solution moves NAC operations from on-premise hardware built using monolithic code bases to the cloud. It also leverages AIOps for automated provisioning, monitoring, analysis and security. Juniper said the acquisition accelerates its […]
AMD completed its previously-announced acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction. Xilinx stockholders received 1.7234 shares of AMD common stock and cash in lieu of any fractional shares of AMD common stock for each share of Xilinx common stock. AMD expects the acquisition to be accretive to non-GAAP margins, non-GAAP EPS and free cash flow […]
Openreach is using Viavi Solutions to automate testing the quality and speed of the Openreach “Full Fibre” broadband network The deployment uses Viavi’s Fusion, a virtual performance monitoring system, to deliver an on-demand network “speedometer” of the performance that end users can achieve. This will be the first time that proactive network testing of end […]
IBM has acquired Sentaca, a telco consulting services and solutions provider based in Boston. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sentaca’s team of technology consultants across the U.S. and Canada build and migrate mission-critical applications on leading cloud service providers and open-source platforms like Red Hat OpenShift and OpenStack. Sentaca has supported digital transformation, next-generation networks […]
Windstream Wholesale is connecting its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the AUBix LLC data center adjacent to Auburn University. AUBix LLC is a 40,000-square-foot, multi-tenant, mission-critical, and CMMC-compliant data center. It connects to Windstream’s point of presence at 55 Marietta in Atlanta, Georgia. Windstream Wholesale is now taking orders at the new AUBix location […]
China Telecom and Huawei have jointly completed the lab verification of a 200G+ transmission system over 3600 km without electrical regeneration. Huawei’s optical-electrical transmission solution is based on its Flexgrid Blade OXC. It features Super 200G+ based on channel-matched shaping (CMS), special pluggable erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) with ultra-wide gain spectrum, Super C+L band ready […]
II‐VI confirmed shipment of its 400G ZR+ QSFP-DD-DCO transceiversto Windstream Wholesale for field qualification. II-VI’s 400G transceivers leverage digital coherent optics and offer optical output power of 0 dBm. The transceivers can plug directly into QSFP-DD transceiver slots on IP routers. II-VI said Windstream can leverage this technology to optically connect routers directly to access, […]
Jio Platforms Limited and SES agreed to establish a joint venture – Jio Space Technology Limited – to deliver the next generation scalable and affordable broadband services in India leveraging satellite technology. JPL and SES will own 51% and 49% equity stake in the joint venture respectively. The JV, which will use SES-12, SES’s high-throughput […]
OneWeb confirmed the successful deployment of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch marks OneWeb’s first in 2022 and 13th overall, bringing its total in-orbit constellation to 428 satellites. It represents 66 percent of OneWeb’s planned 648 LEO satellite fleet that will deliver high-speed, low-latency global connectivity. […]
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has selected Microsoft to develop a sovereign cloud to accelerate digital transformation and innovation across the government’s Home Team departments. The sovereign cloud will be built on Microsoft Azure for on-demand, high performance cloud computing and data storage resources. High system resiliency and availability will ensure that […]
Mavenir announced the commercial availability of its Intelligent IoT Platform (IIoTP) for gaining insights into data streams from IoT sensors. Mavenir’s IIoTP solution that can be deployed independently or in conjunction with the Mavenir’s Intelligent Video Application (IVA) and other AI applications, on any cloud or on-prem hardware. It integrates with a variety of sensors […]
