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Vertical Systems Group announced that seven companies achieved a rank on the 2021 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD(in order based on retail port share as of year-end 2021): Orange Business Services (France), Colt (U.K.), Verizon (U.S.), AT&T(U.S.), Lumen (U.S.), BT Global Services (U.K.) and NTT (Japan). This industry benchmark for multinational Ethernet network market presence ranks […]
DigitalBridge Group will sell an equity stake in its DataBank company to a consortium led by Swiss Life Asset Management AG and EDF Invest. DataBank’s portfolio consists of more than 65 data centers, 20 interconnection hubs in more than 27 markets, on-ramps to an ecosystem of cloud providers, and a modular edge data center platform. […]
Aqua Comms has signed a crossing and landing agreement with Telecom Egypt for the Europe Middle-East India Connect 1 (EMIC-1) subsea cable, which will connect the key European hubs of Barcelona, Marseille and Genoa with Salalah, Oman and Mumbai, India,. Telecom Egypt will provide EMIC-1, which is a new intercontinental subsea cable and terrestrial fibre […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced progress toward allowing Verizon and AT&T to enhance 5G service around certain airports while protecting commercial air travel from disruption by 5G C-band interference. “We believe we have identified a path that will continue to enable aviation and 5G C-band wireless to safely co-exist,” said Acting FAA Administrator Billy […]
Ericsson, OPPO and Qualcomm have tested 5G enterprise network slicing solution The pre-commercial trial used Ericsson’s Dynamic Network Slicing Selection, a recent addition to the company’s dual-mode 5G Core portfolio, and Ericsson 5G RAN slicing, which together deliver the required new network capabilities for this new solution. The trial was completed using an OPPO Find […]
Oracle opened its second cloud region in France in La Courneuve, Paris. All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services are available in the Oracle Cloud Paris region to support regulatory compliance requirements, which are especially critical in banking and the public sector. Available services include Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud […]
Bouygues Telecom has select the cloud-native Ericsson Dual Mode 5G Core for its network in France. When fully operational, the end-to-end (spanning both Bouygues Telecom’s core and RAN networks) 5G SA network will facilitate use cases across Bouygues Telecom’s entire customer base: from individual consumer subscribers to enterprise and industry customers, and other use cases […]
Data center capex grew at the fastest rate year-over-year in three years in 1Q 2022, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. New cloud deployments and higher data center infrastructure costs drove capex. “Data center capex grew double-digits year-over-year in 1Q 2022 despite persistent supply chain constraints,” said Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell’Oro […]
Digital Realty has formed a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a new multi-tenant data center campus in Israel. Digital Realty Mivne expects to develop a multi-tenant data center campus in Petah Tikvah, the primary connectivity hub in Israel. The data center campus will support the development of up to 20 megawatts (MW) […]
Researchers at MIT have fabricated a stackable, reconfigurable artificial intelligence chip that uses light-emitting diodes (LED) to allow the chip’s multiple layers to communicate optically. The MIT design uses light, rather than physical wires, to transmit information through the chip. The design consists of paired photodetectors and LEDs, each patterned with tiny pixels. Photodetectors constitute […]
CoreSite has deployed the Arrcus Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) solution to help enable the CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange (OCX). CoreSite is leveraging the ACE MCN solution to extend its software-defined networking platform through automating additional provisioning functionality within AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud and direct cloud-to-cloud communication capabilities on CoreSite’s fully managed virtual routers. Arrcus’ ACE […]
Telefónica is pursuing a circular economy plan for the reuse of its telecommunications equipment among its Group operators and with other third parties. The goal is to offer a second life to devices. The plan is for each operator to publish and visualise available equipment to promote its reuse, supported by a digital platform and […]
MSA Resources Sdn Bhd (MSAR), a telecommunications infrastructure provider based in Peninsular Malaysia will deploy Ciena’s 6500, WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics, and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller to reach data transmission speeds of 800 Gbps line rate and total network capacity of 33.6Tb/s per fiber pair. MSAR is currently building a […]
