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Ericsson plans to hire 250 people at its Irish Research and Development Centre in Athlone to support the company’s ongoing development of innovative cloud-native products that orchestrate, automate and power its global 5G portfolio. The new positions, which will be added over the next three years, will be for cloud native engineers with competences including […]
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has conducted a proof-of-concept test (PoC) of an autonomous AI controlling an industrial process and connected over DOCOMO’s 5G network. The fiel test, which successfully controlled a simulated plant processing operation over a period of 35 days, demonstrated that 5G is suitable for the remote control of actual plant processes. Both Yokogawa […]
The HiWire Consortium standardization efforts will be absorbed into a new Interconnects Sub-Project inside the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP). All the Active Electrical Cable Specs were contributed to OCP and can be found on the OCP Contribution Database and the associated products are on display on the OCP Marketplace. The new Interconnects Sub-Project is […]
Broadcom unveiled plans to acquire all of the outstanding shares of VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction that values VMware at approximately $61 billion, based on the closing price of Broadcom common stock on May 25, 2022. In addition, Broadcom will assume $8 billion of VMware net debt. The deal has the support of VMware’s Board […]
Meta has selected Azure as a strategic cloud provider to help accelerate AI research and development. Specifically, Meta will utilize a dedicated Azure cluster of 5400 GPUs using the latest virtual machine (VM) series in Azure (NDm A100 v4 series, featuring NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core 80GB GPUs) for some of their large-scale AI research workloads. […]
The Broadband Forum has launched an app-enabled services gateway project to help service providers deploy, activate and manage third party applications such as parental controls, Wi-Fi analytics, streaming services and security solutions to consumers on a centralized Internet gateway device or other Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). Broadband Forum’s WT-492 ‘Software-Based Architecture for the App-Enabled Services […]
Citing strong sales in networking and server storage segments, Broadcom reported revenue of $8.103 billion for its second quarter of fiscal year 2022, ended May 1, 2022, up 23% over the same period last year. Net income increased to $2.590 billion, compared to $1.493 billion a year ago. “Broadcom’s second quarter revenue accelerated sequentially, and […]
Marvell reported net revenue of $1.447 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal 2023. The result exceeded the midpoint of the company’s guidance provided on March 3, 2022. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2023 was $(166) million, or $(0.20) per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for the first quarter of […]
With the first generation of 51.2T switches running at 100 Gbps per lane on the horizon, the market will soon be considering the pros and cons of different board design choices for managing so many high capacity channels. Will co-packaged optics (CPO) or near-packaged optics (NPO) scale to meet the bandwidth density challenge? In this […]
https://youtu.be/oT6fNlB1Kj4 Enterprises, including major financial institutions, have been struggling to provide connectivity at cloud scale for all of their application workloads, says Faraz Siddiqui, Head of Solutions Architecture, Prosimo. Filmed at ONUG Spring 2022. https://prosimo.io Who is Prosimo? CTO presentation Tuesday, April 06, 2021 Prosimo, SD-WAN, Start-Ups https://youtu.be/58YMebmBJwMProsimo, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, has launched its […]
Verizon and AWS launched 5G mobile edge computing in Nashville, TN and Tampa, FL. The mobile edge solution, which was first launched in August 2020, the companies provide mobile edge computing via AWS Wavelength Zones in 19 locations in the U.S. That means 75% of the U.S. population is now within 150 miles of a […]
Ayar Labs is working with NVIDIA on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure based on optical I/O technology to meet future demands of AI and high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The collaboration will focus on integrating Ayar Labs’ technology to develop scale-out architectures enabled by high-bandwidth, low-latency and ultra-low-power optical-based interconnects for future NVIDIA products. Together, the […]
Marvell announced a significant milestones: the cumulative shipment of more than 100,000 400G Coherent Digital Signal Processors (CDSPs). Marvell’s CDSP portfolio includes Canopus, the industry’s first 7nm CDSP enabling 400G ZR/ZR+, metro and long haul pluggable optical modules, and the Marvell Deneb, an ultra-low power, multi-mode 400G DSP for OpenZR+ and OpenROADM. The company also […]
