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The U.S. Space Force awarded a contract to Space Micro Inc. to build a GEO-capable µLCT secure laser communications terminal that could be used as an OISL (Optical Inter-Satellite Link), a spacecraft to ground link, or a spacecraft to UAV link. This new award builds on an initial development contract the U.S. Air Force issued […]
The O-RAN ALLIANCE announced the second release of specifications encompassing an O-RAN Minimum Viable Plan for products that meet the highest priority needs of operators. O-RAN Release 001, released last year, focused on creating Open Interfaces that include Open Fronthaul, transport, hardware and cloud. The new O-RAN Release 002 focuses on enabling Open Intelligence. Features […]
Equinix completed its previously-announced US$320 million acquisition of MainOne, which is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. Founded by Funke Opeke in 2010, the company has enabled connectivity for the business community of Nigeria and now has digital infrastructure assets, including three operational data centers, with an additional facility in Lagos expected to open in April 2022. […]
Carsten Rossenhövel, CTO and co-Founder of EANTC, discusses the Multi-Vendor Interoperability Showcase at this week’s MPLS, SD & AI Net World Congress in Paris. https://youtu.be/N35n5Cqx6B0
MITRE Engenuity announced an agreement of principles with Intel, Micron, and Analog Devices to accelerate semiconductor research, development, and prototyping to build a more robust U.S. semiconductor industry. The visio is to pursue a whole-of-nation approach for a more innovation-focused U.S. semiconductor industry and supply chain. MITRE Engenuity is built on MITRE’s 60+ year history […]
Deutsche Telekom reports that its 5G rollout continues at pace with more than 5,000 antennas now part of its 5G network. Around 350 new sites have been added in recent weeks. In total, almost 1,700 sites make up the very fast 5G network. The antennas transmit at the 3.6 gigahertz (GHz) frequency. The network can […]
Spectra7 Microsystems demonstrated its new 112G PAM4 GaugeChanger chip intended for next generation 800Gbps data center interconnects at this year’s annual DesignCon Conference and Exhibition. The demo show Spectra7’s new GC1122 chip compensating for 112Gbps PAM4 signal loss over 4m of Volex 28AWG high-speed twin-ax cable. Since the GC1122 is analog and highly linear, dynamics […]
Lightpath announced a new regional long-haul route cbetween the data center epicenter of Ashburn, Virginia, and the New York Metro area. This 300-mile route is geographically diverse from existing Lightpath routes between New York and Ashburn. Lightpath will offer flexible bandwidth options along the route up to 800 Gbps optical transport. In addition, customers can […]
Fungible introduced a means by which data centers could centralize their existing GPU assets into a single resource pool to be attached to servers on demand. The Fungible GPU-Connect (FGC) solution leverages the company’s DPU to dynamically compose GPU and CPU resources across an Ethernet network. Instead of dedicated GPUs sitting idle most of the […]
Arrcus has been awarded a U.S. patent in support of its VDR (Virtualized Distributed Routing) solution. Specifically, the patent addresses the punt path between the control plane and line card and creating a virtual VLAN tag for each front panel interface. Previous patents awarded to Arrcus in VDR cover topics such as router state database […]
Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which aims to increase global broadband access using a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), announced commercial launch contract forArianespace’s Ariane 6, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rockets. The contracts total up to 83 launches over a five-year period, providing capacity for Amazon to deploy […]
NTT DOCOMO has adopted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to build its new development environment for ALADIN (ALl Around DoCoMo INformation Systems), one of the largest customer information management systems in the world. ALADIN supports DOCOMO’s more than 83 million subscriber base, handling all customer-related operations, such as membership and transactional data, credit checks, contract data […]
Northrop Grumman and AT&T entered into a collaboration agreement to research and develop a digital battle network, powered by AT&T 5G and Northrop Grumman’s advanced mission systems, to support the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The agreement establishes a joint research and development framework to prototype, demonstrate and test AT&T’s commercial 5G networking capabilities integrated […]
