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The worldwide Service Provider (SP) Router and Switch market trended flat in 1Q 2022, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. North America, followed by the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) region, led the worldwide market with double-digit revenue growth. “Strong demand for SP Routers in North America and the CALA region was driven […]
Qualcomm Technologies has acquired Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte. Ltd. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cellwize, which is headquartered in Singapore with R&D in Israel, offers mobile network automation and orchestration solution. Cellwize offers a RAN automation and orchestration platform for 5G rollouts. Cellwize CHIME enables operators to accelerate their 5G deployment by automating key business […]
T-Mobile US reported speeds of over 3 Gbps on its standalone 5G network by aggregating three channels of mid-band 5G spectrum. The test ran over its live production network and used the Samsung Galaxy S22 powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform with Snapdragon X65 Modem-RF System. Carrier aggregation combined three 5G channels – […]
NTT Ltd., will build a new, large-scale data center campus with a planned 336MW capacity in Prince William County, Gainesville, Virginia (a.k.a. Data Center Alley). The new campus will be a strategic addition to the company’s rapidly expanding portfolio, which includes new data center campuses in Ashburn, VA; Hillsboro, OR; Santa Clara, CA; Chicago, […]
Verizon plans to increase in capacity and speed on is 5G Ultra Wideband network with the addition of CBRS spectrum. Working with Ericsson, Verizon has completed a 5G data session using CBRS General Authorized Access (GAA) spectrum. The company said it is ready to support 5G on both shared and Priority Access License (PAL) CBRS […]
Equinix, in partnership with PGIM Real Estate, inaugurated its first xScale data center in Sydney, Australia. This milestone follows the closing of the US$575 million joint venture between the parties in March 2022. As the first of the two data centers to be developed and operated under the joint venture with PGIM Real Estate, the […]
At Fiber Connect 2022 in Nashville, Nokia Bell Labs showed the first proof-of-concept demonstration of 100G PON. The prototype delivers 100Gbps downstream on a single PON wavelength. The performance is achieved using digital signal processing as well optimizations of the modulation. Nokia is also introducing the concept of a “flexible PON”, where the downstream performance […]
Nokia will begin offering Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) kits for expedited delivery to rural service providers. Each ‘network-in-a-box’ kit is suitable for building a network for a town of up to 1,000 homes. Each Nokia Broadband Relief Kit is comprised of the necessary FTTH equipment, software licenses, support, and state-of-the-art in-home WiFi gateways required to serve a […]
OTEGLOBE has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent solution for its European network. The deployment of Infinera’s ICE6 solution on the GX G42 Compact Modular Platform will double capacity in selected parts of OTEGLOBE’s diverse terrestrial backbone network and enable the carrier to offer new 400 GbE services to its customers. OTEGLOBE’s pan-European network, with more […]
Israel-based ColorChip unveiled its Hairtail direct attached cable (DAC) technology, featuring flexibility, bending insensitivity, and the lightest cable for 50G PAM4 applications. This technology, when being implemented in the QSFP-DD or OSFP form factors which are made with 16 pairs of high-speed cables, may address the conventional DAC field deployment challenges due to the rigidity […]
Kioxia announced sampling of the first XFM DEVICE Ver.1.0-compliant removable PCIe attached, NVMe storage device. Kioxia’s XFMEXPRESS XT2 will be available in in 256GB and 512GB models and is designed for ultra-mobile PCs, IoT devices and various embedded applications. First introduced in August of 2019, and then presented as a proposal to the JEDEC Subcommittee […]
Oracle reported revenue of $11.8 billion for its fiscal 2022 Q4, up 5% year-over-year in USD and up 10% in constant currency. Q4 GAAP operating income was $4.5 billion, down 1% in USD and up 6% in constant currency. Non-GAAP operating income was $5.6 billion, up 3% in USD and up 8% in constant currency. […]
https://youtu.be/pJptXKdGitE The stakes could not be higher. With over $42 billion in new federal funding soon to become available, coupled with billions of dollars in addition government grants and private investments, the United States is embarking on a once-in-a-generation upgrade program to bring fiber connectivity to communities across the country. Gary Bolton, president of Fiber […]
