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The first landing of the 2Africa cable was completed in Genoa, Italy. Vodafone, the 2Africa landing party in Genoa, has partnered with Equinix to land the cable directly into the Equinix Carrier Neutral Data Center (CNDC), with Retelit delivering the fronthaul. As with all 2Africa cable landings, capacity will be available to service providers in […]
Ericsson reported Q1 2022 sales of SEK 55.1 (49.8) billion, up 3% compared to a year earlier. The company said sales were driven by Networks in North America and in Europe and Latin America. Reported gross margin was 42.3% (42.8%) impacted by proactive investments in supply chain resilience in Networks. Rolling four quarter gross margin […]
Renesas Electronics introduced the first clock buffers and multiplexers that meet stringent PCIe Gen6 specifications. Renesasis offering 11 new clock buffers and 4 new multiplexers. The new devices, which also support and provide extra margin for PCIe Gen5 implementations, complement Renesas’ low-jitter 9SQ440, 9FGV1002 and 9FGV1006 clock generators to offer customers a complete PCIe Gen6 […]
Kioxia and Western Digital agreed to jointly invest in the first phase of the Fab7 (Y7) manufacturing facility at Kioxia’s Yokkaichi Plant in the Mie Prefecture of Japan. This joint-venture investment adds a sixth flash memory manufacturing facility to the Yokkaichi Plant, enhancing its position as the world’s largest flash memory manufacturing site. The first […]
AMD’s decision to acquire Pensando has given the market 1.9 billion reasons to believe that data processing units (DPUs) and the SmartNICs they enable are indeed a really HOT networking idea. Join us as we explore solutions from the leading players in our upcoming 2022 Infrastructure Acceleration showcase and report. If you would like […]
Marvell has more than doubled its growth year-over-year (YOY) in cloud data center Ethernet switch port shipments, based on 650 Group’s quarterly switch report for Q4’21 released last month. The company said its share of the overall data center switch market grew from 6% to 10% YOY and specifically within the 50G SerDes segment of […]
Interface Masters Technologies introduced a network switch based on the Intel Tofino 2 P4-programmable switch fabric (12.8Tb) and a Dual AMD EPYC 2 Milan 64-core offload processors. “Interface Masters is an OEM hardware solutions provider. Our new Tahoe 2664-ZR1 is entirely designed and manufactured in the USA – our hardware is never compromised and always […]
POLYN Technology, a start-up based in Caesarea, Israel unveiled its first Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processor (NASP) chip. The company says its device embodies the Tiny AI concept. The NASP chip enables full data processing disaggregation between the sensor node and the cloud. The chip, which is implemented in 55nm CMOS technology, contains several neural networks. […]
Intel pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its global operations by 2040, to increase the energy efficiency and lower the carbon footprint of Intel products and platforms with specific goals, and to work with customers and industry partners to create solutions that lower the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire technology ecosystem. To […]
Windstream Wholesale is undertaking a new brand identity to capitalize on its “fast and flexible” approach to technology leadership and service delivery. The new brand identity now features a graphical element logo that symbolizes fluidity in motion. “Windstream Wholesale is leading the industry in so many ways that it’s time our brand fully incorporate our […]
Virgin Media O2 has completed the deployment of Samsung gear at multiple live 4G and 5G sites in the U.K. The companies also completed the first 5G data call on Virgin Media O2’s commercial 5G network, using the sites. Field trials were jointly carried out on the sites—located in Tamworth and the Peak District, England […]
Semtech has added multi-band capabilities to its LoRa Edge device-to-Cloud geolocation platform to allow for direct satellite-connected Internet of Things (IoT) applications in supply chain management and logistics with seamless low power geolocation on a global scale. Key features of LoRa Edge LR1120: Multi-band LoRa capability (sub-GHz, 2.4GHz and licensed S-band for satellite) and multi-technology […]
Tech Mahindra has selected Keysight Open Radio Architect (KORA) solutions to certify 5G equipment of open radio access network (O-RAN) in a 5G O-RAN test lab facility located in New Jersey, USA. Keysight will equip Tech Mahindra’s O-RAN lab with several KORA solutions, including RuSIM, DuSIM, CuSIM and CoreSIM. These solutions allow Tech Mahindra to […]
