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SoftBank has completed initial testing of Altaeros’ ST-Flex autonomous aerostat with a base station as the payload. Operational and telecom tests were performed at Hokkaido Spaceport, Taiki Town, Hokkaido, Japan. Learn more about ST-Flex: SoftBank and Altaeros first launched the ST-Flex on May 2, 2022 and performed evaluation tests through May. ST-Flex carried SoftBank’s base […]
Nokia launched a 5G Innov Lab platform with the objective of testing and integrating 5G industrial uses, using an open and transversal approach; and brings together various entities, including Airbus Secure Land Communications, Augmented Acoustics, Digital Immersion, IMT, SNEF Lab, Nokia Bell Labs, and Paris-Saclay Hardware Accelerator. The 5G Innov Lab platform will rely on […]
Telecom Egypt and Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, signed an agreement to connect Greece and Egypt by extending a branch from a major subsea cable system, which is currently being laid across the Mediterranean Sea. Earlier this year, on the 9th of February, Telecom Egypt […]
ADVA and II‐VI introduced a jointly-built, 100ZR pluggable coherent transceiver for the optical network edge. The new Coherent 100ZR, which is rated for both commercial- and industrial-temperature (C-temp and I-temp) operating ranges, features the II-VI Steelerton coherent digital signal processor (DSP). The device plugs directly into existing head-ends, switches, and routers, enabling existing network elements […]
The PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification will double the data rate to 128 GT/s (giga transfers per second) and up to 512 GB/s bi-directionally via x16 configuration. PCI-SIG aims to release the updated spec in 2025. PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing the PCIe 7.0 specification with the following feature goals: Delivering 128 GT/s raw […]
II-VI announced a significant milestone: more than 1,000 of its LightFlow Flexband wavelength selective switch (WSS) modules shipped for deployment in undersea optical networks. II-VI received its first such commercial orders in 2019. The WSS modules are used in reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) embedded in branching points on the ocean floor. II-VI’s WSS leverages […]
Alkira launched Cloud Area Networking, a a full stack, edge-to-cloud enterprise-grade network with built-in routing and network services. Alkira auto-connects clouds, sites, users, and SD-WAN fabrics. Alkira Cloud Area Networking aims to unify all users, sites, clouds, and vendors into one network with the following capabilities: Visualization of all network traffic from on-prem to deep […]
Cabildo de Tenerife, the governing body of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, has deployed Infinera’s XTM Series across its regional government network infrastructure to increase broadband connectivity throughout the island. The new network uses the XTM Series range of EMXP packet-optical transport switches and the High-Density Ethernet Aggregator (HDEA) to deliver an […]
DISH Network and T-Mobile announced an amendment to the 2020 Master Network Services Agreement (MNSA) that provides customers of DISH’s retail wireless brands, including Boost Mobile, access to T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network. The extended deal incorporates financial and operational changes, including improved pricing and enhanced roaming solutions for DISH 5G customers in consideration of an […]
Lightwave Logic announced the publication of a U.S. patent application on a new invention that will enhance polymer modulator manufacturing in high-volume foundries when integrated with silicon photonics. This patent application – entitled “Hybrid electro-optic polymer modulator with silicon photonics” under publication number 2022/0187637A1 – details a novel fabrication process that allows Lightwave Logic’s proprietary […]
Nokia, Elisa, and Qualcomm Technologies achieved arecord-breaking 5G uplink speeds of 2.1 Gbps. The live demonstration at the Nokia Arena in Tampere in Finland featured Nokia’s AirScale base station in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum over Elisa’s commercial 5G network. The network was connected to a 5G device powered by a Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System […]
Aryaka has appointed Srini Addepalli as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), reporting to Renuka Nadkarni, Chief Product Officer. Prior to joining Aryaka, Srini was a technology strategist and architect at Intel, where he incubated multiple open-source edge computing and security initiatives including Service Mesh, a cloud native secure access service edge (SASE) framework, a distributed hardware […]
Renesas Electronics introduced its SmartBond DA1470x Bluetooth low energy (LE) system-on-chip (SoC) family for wireless connectivity. Key features of the DA1470x Wireless SoCs Multi core system – Arm® Cortex-M33 processor as the main application core and Cortex -M0+ as the sensor node controller. Integrated 2D GPU & Display controller supporting DPI, JDI parallel, DBI and […]
