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Juniper Networks reported net revenues of $1,168.2 million, an increase of 9% year-over-year and a decrease of 10% sequentially. GAAP operating margin was 5.0%, an increase from 2.6% in the first quarter of 2021, and a decrease from 11.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021. “Business momentum remained strong and exceeded our expectations during the […]
Aviz Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced a $4 million seed funding round to support its development of SONiC software solutions for hybrid cloud and edge networks. Aviz is enabling a unified and consistent user experience across multi-vendor environments with its Aviz Certified SONiC program and a high quality application-driven support model, […]
Google announced general availability of Media CDN, a new service to help media and entertainment customers to efficiently and intelligently deliver streaming experiences to viewers anywhere in the world. In a blog post, Shailesh Shukla, Vice President and General Manager, Networking, Google Cloud, writes “Media CDN builds on the success of the existing Cloud CDN […]
NTT Corporation and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation agreed to establish a 50-50 joint venture company that will launch a novel integrated space computing network for optical data relay service. The new company, called Space Compass, will build stratospheric and near-Earth space for ICT infrastructures to support a number of fields, including energy, environment and climate […]
The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) has nearly doubled in membership over the past year, adding 44 new organizations and bringing its roster to 95 organizations. At last week’s Annual Member Meeting, five recently elected Directors were introduced: Brad Booth of Microsoft, Chris Wright of Red Hat, Hey-Chyi Young of […]
Ericsson has produced one million 5G radio products at the Flex Tczew factory in Poland. The main products manufactured in the Tczew factory are basebands and radio modules, which combine to form the 5G base station. In April this year, Ericsson will also start production of the latest generation of radio, the dual-band Radio 4490, […]
CalChip Connect, a leading IoT distributor, has selected Federated Wireless as its preferred private wireless service delivery partner. As the first major achievement of the collaboration, Federated Wireless has completed the deployment of a private wireless network and innovation center to power CalChip Connect’s global IoT distribution center in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This deployment will […]
Mavenir has established an Open RAN Centre of Excellence centered in Bonn, with satellite teams in Düsseldorf and Munich to support European Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) engineering, planning, design, system integration and deployment. Vishant Vora, President, Global Operations and Managed Services at Mavenir, said, “Mavenir’s Centre of Excellence […]
eir, Ireland’s leading telecommunications provider, reported that its 5G network now extends across 1,250 sites in 450 towns and cities in Ireland. eir also announced that 5G roaming is now available for customers travelling within the UK and over 30 other countries, including Portugal, France, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, The Netherlands and Thailand. Oliver Loomes, eir […]
China Mobile Sichuan achieved a physical-layer single-user peak rate to 4.52 Gbps in tests of Huawei’s TDD+FDD and TDD+TDD 5G SA 3CC Carrier Aggregation solution. The testing was performed on live networks in Chengdu. China Mobile Sichuan and Huawei performed 3CC CA verification in typical networking scenarios, with one of the three component carriers on […]
Nokia will provide its data center switching solutions for Microsoft Azure. The deal expands the long-standing relationship between the companies, including collaboration as part of the open source SONiC initiative to develop chassis-based platforms focused on the requirements of high-capacity data centers.. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nokia confirmed that it will supply its 7250 […]
AT&T reported Q1 2022 revenue of $38.1 billion versus $43.9 billion in the year-ago quarter, down 13.3% reflecting the impact of divested businesses, mainly U.S. video in the third quarter of 2021 and Vrio in the fourth quarter of 2021, as well as lower Business Wireline revenues. The decreases were partially offset by higher Mobility […]
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next generation of Amazon Aurora Serverless capable of scaling database workloads to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second. Instead of doubling capacity every time a workload must scale, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 continuously monitors database activity and […]
