A journal for networking and telecoms
Coverage archive
Browse Converge Digest reporting from this month.
Reporting
NVIDIA reported record revenue for the first quarter ended May 1, 2022, of $8.29 billion, up 46% from a year ago and up 8% from the previous quarter, with record revenue in Data Center and Gaming. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.64, down 16% from a year ago and down 46% […]
Nutanix reported revenue of $403.7 million for its third quarter ended April 30, 2022, up 17% from the $344.5 million reported for the same period a year earlier. The company cited 28% a YoY ACV billings growth to $204.7 million, but trimmed its outlook due to supply chain delays. “Our third quarter reflected continued solid […]
Google opened a new cloud region in Madrid, Spain. The new Madrid region (europe-southwest1) provides low-latency, highly available cloud services with high international security and data protection standards. The Madrid region is launching with three cloud zones to prevent service interruptions, and our standard set of products, including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, […]
The total Mobile Core Network (MCN) and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) market revenues for 1Q 2022 rebounded to a positive year-over-year (Y/Y) growth rate after the decrease in 4Q 2021 which was the first decrease since 4Q 2017, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. The MCN market growth was driven by an extremely […]
Australia’s NBN Co. reported total revenue of $3.8 billion for Q3 FY22 for the nine months to 31 March 2022:, up 10 per cent on Q3 FY21, primarily due to growth in activations and customers upgrading to higher speed tiers. Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITDA), including subscriber costs, was $2.3 billion, a […]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD), announced 5G Challenge contestants selected from final white paper entries. This prize competition aims to accelerate the adoption of open interfaces, interoperable components, and multi-vendor solutions toward the development of an open […]
Samsung Electronics and Red Hat are collaborating on software for next-generation memory solutions. The newly announced partnership will focus on the development and validation of open source software for existing and emerging memory and storage products, including NVMe SSDs; CXL memory; computational memory/storage (HBM-PIM, Smart SSDs) and fabrics — in building an expansive ecosystem for […]
NTT Ltd. opened its first data center in Spain. The high-availability, Tier 3-compliant colocation data center is located on NTT’s Európolis Business and Technology Park site 20km northwest of Madrid. It provides hyperscalers as well as enterprise clients with 3,600m2 of IT space and a maximum IT capacity of 6.3MW when fully built out. The […]
Nokia has reached the 1.5 million port milestone for its Quillion chipset-based broadband solutions, potentially reaching 50 million subscribers.500K of the ports are 25G PON-ready. The Quillion chipset now has more than160 operator customers around the world. Designed to offer multi-PON capabilities with GPON, XGS-PON and 25G PON all running on the same fiber, Quillion […]
Blueline, a provider of internet, voice and television services throughout Madagascar, has selected Ribbon’s Apollo Optical Networking solution to upgrade the bandwidth capacity of its communications network. The Apollo 9600 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Optical Transport solution provides Blueline multi-service transport capabilities on an energy-efficient multi-wavelength 100 Gigabit (100G) backbone that can be […]
Renesas Electronics will demonstrated a microcontroller (MCU) based on the recently announced Arm Cortex-M85 processor at the Embedded World 2022 Exhibition and Conference in Nuremburg Germany from June 21-24. Renesas introduced the RA (Renesas Advanced) Family of Arm Cortex-M based MCUs in October of 2019, entering the general-purpose Arm-Cortex-M market with a robust and feature […]
Colt Technology Services is working with Nour Global to provide global MPLS and Internet services across the Middle East. The partnership expands Colt’s presence in key markets like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt with the option to grow with seamless access to the rest of the GCC and North Africa. Nour Global’sGMPLS solution includes […]
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances, the next generation of compute-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton3 processors. AWS says its AWS Graviton3 processors running C7g instances provide up to 25% better compute performance for compute-intensive applications than current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The […]
