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Western Digital and Kioxia, its joint venture partner, announced that contamination of certain material used in its manufacturing processes has occurred and is affecting production operations at both its Yokkaichi and Kitakami flash fabrication facilities in Japan. The anomoly concerns production of three-dimensional (3D) flash memory BiCS FLASH at both plants. Kioxia does not anticipate […]
Optus is the first operator to deploy Ericsson’s triple-band 4G/5G Radio in the Asia Pacific region. The first triple-band radio unit has been commercially deployed at Macquarie Park in Sydney with rollout continuing over the coming months. Ericsson’s triple-band Radio 4466 allows Optus to concurrently enable 5G and 4G services across 1800MHz, 2100MHz and 2600MHz […]
SpaceX confirmed the loss of up to 40 Starlink satellites launched on February 3 due to the effects of a geomagnetic storm. The Falcon 9’s second stage deployed the satellites into their intended orbit, however most of the satellites deployed on that mission failed to pass initial system checkouts and have de-orbited. SpaceX said the […]
TREX Regional Exchanges Oy, which is based in Tampere, Finland, will deploy the Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router platforms running on the Nokia SR Linux network operating system (NOS) to upgrade its network. The Nokia SR Linux allows the collection of operations data – such as fine-grained system state, configuration settings and real-time network analytics – […]
Icelandic telecommunications company Síminn awarded a 5-year network infrastructure contract to Ericsson. The goal is for 90% 5G coverage across Iceland by the first half of 2025. Orri Hauksson, CEO, Síminn says: “Our customers will see increasing data speeds, our companies will see new business opportunities, and the Icelandic industry will become increasingly competitive on […]
NamPower, Namibia’s largest power utility, has deployed Ribbon’s IP Optical portfolio for its “The GridOnline” project. The GridOnline provides a comprehensive backbone for operators across the country to leverage high-capacity bandwidth reliably, both domestically and internationally. NamPower’s deployment combines Ribbon’s 400G ZR+ and 200G coherent Apollo Optical Transport solutions with Neptune IP over DWDM. The […]
EllaLink said its new fiber optic submarine cable linking Europe with Latin America enables gamers on both continents to play online matches with 30% less latency. EllaLink has entered into a partnership with IP Telecom – which provides differentiated IP transit access to the main content servers spread across the European continent – and with […]
Ekinops introduced its first Ekinops360 ETSc, a new compact Optical Transport Networking (OTN) platform that enables a new Transport-as-a-Service (TaaS) model for service providers. Ekinops said its new ETSc platform leverages the latest advances in network processor chipsets to enable a new ‘Transport-as-a-Service’ (TaaS) model for service providers supporting client data rates from Gigabit Ethernet […]
London-based Telehouse, one of Europe’s leading colocation data center providers, has selected Ribbon’s Apollo solution to power its flagship Metro Connect offer. The deployment features Ribbon’s programmable TM1200 and TM1200E muxponder cards on Apollo 9603 and 9608 platforms, providing optimized transport for 100GbE and 400GbE clients. Based on two redundant fiber links, with a failover […]
Toshiba published the following roadmap for its next-generation Nearline HDDs. Toshiba plans to leverage its proprietary recording technologies, FC-MAMR (Flux-Controlled – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording), MAS-MAMR (Microwave Assisted Switching – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording), and Disk Stacking technology to lift Nearline HDD capacities to 30TB by FY2023, and greater capacities beyond. “Toshiba continues to work closely with […]
Keysight Technologies’ S8704A Protocol Conformance Toolset was used to submit the industry’s first 5G new radio (NR) release 16 (Rel-16) test case for verifying mobility enhancements in 5G NR devices to 3GPP. 3GPP’s 5G NR Release 16 specification delivers a wide range of enhancements over Rel-15. These enhancements will support transformation in private 5G, industrial […]
NVIDIA and SoftBank cancelled the acquisition of Arm Limited by NVIDIA. The companies cited significant regulatory challenges. SoftBank said it now plans a public listing of Arm Limited within the fiscal year ending in March 2023. “Arm is becoming a center of innovation not only in the mobile phone revolution, but also in cloud computing, […]
Arm appointed Rene Haas as chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, replacing Simon Segars, who has stepped down as chief executive officer and member of the board of directors after 30 years with the company. Haas has served as president of the Arm IP Products Group (IPG) since 2017. Under his […]
