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Quantum Source, a start-up based in Rehovot, Israel, announced $15 million in seed funding. Quantum Source’s vision is to enable scaling quantum computers to millions of qubits using photonic technology. The company was founded by three serial entrepreneurs and a Professor from the Weizmann Institute of Science: Oded Melamed, CEO, who was the co-founder and […]
On Sunday, July 10 at 6:39 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This Falcon 9 first stage booster previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, and three Starlink missions. This was the 29th SpaceX mission for 2022 and […]
LF Networking will host ONE Summit North America 2022 in Seattle, Washington on November 15-16,. The event will focus on best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing decision makers across 5G, Cloud, Telco, and Enterprise Networking, as well as Edge, Access, IoT, and Core. The event will feature an extensive program of 80+ talks […]
On July 6th, Indian authorities raided the local offices of Vivo accusing the Chinese smartphone manufacturer of money laundering and the forgery of identity papers. Vivo accounts for an estimated 15% of the smartphone market in India. In December 2021, similar probes were launched into Xiaomi and Oppo for alleged tax evaion. As a result, […]
The FCC launched a Mandatory Disaster Response Initiative (MDRI) aimed at ensuring that the nation’s communications networks are more available in the midst of disasters and other emergencies. MDRI will leverage the industry-developed Wireless Network Resiliency Cooperative Framework, which is a voluntary agreement among a limited group of facilities-based mobile wireless service providers. This […]
Brightspeed has outlined plans to rollout fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) in a number of locations across its 20-state footprint. Brightspeed will initially be comprised of the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) assets and associated operations of Lumen Technologies, which are the subject of a pending acquisition by Apollo-managed funds. The company recently announced that it had secured […]
QuiX Quantum, a start-up developing a photonic quantum processor, announced a €5.5 million Seed Round investment from PhotonDelta, FORWARD.one and Oost NL. QuiX, which is based in Enschede, Netherlands, has developed a low-loss, multimode, reconfigurable interferometer that functions as quantum photonic processor, allowing the user to perform arbitrary, controlled interference between a number of optical […]
NEXCOM, a leading supplier of network appliances based in Taiwan, has released a compact single-port 200GbE network interface card (NIC) powered by the NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC silicon and a PCIe Gen4 interface. The network connection is enabled through one QSFP56 port to utilize double-bit PAM4 data transmission. This allows 200 Gbps in each direction […]
Microsoft believes the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries used in its hyperscale data centers could provide backup power to the public electrical grid. The UPS in Microsoft’s Dublin data center in Ireland will be the first to enable real-time interaction with the electric power grid. This will help grid operators provide uninterrupted service when demand […]
SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The booster was successfully recovered. This was the 13th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and now eight Starlink missions. The mission […]
Orange is deploying a passive optical LAN (POL) solution from Nokia at over 20 sites in France including the new Orange Headquarters, Bridge, in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris. The POL solution replaces the existing copper-based LAN, connecting more than 5,000 end points including Wi-Fi and hard-wired terminals. Philippe Gacougnolle, Orange France Director of the Internal Network […]
The Southern Cross NEXT system, delivering 72 Tbps of capacity across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, is now operational. Spanning six countries and eight time zones, the Southern Cross network connects 12 cable stations and eight key datacenter hubs in these regions, utilizing over 45,000 km (28,000 miles) of cable—exceeding the Earth’s circumference. […]
ONF released VOLTHA v2.10 along with an updated ONOS release (v2.5.6). VOLTHA and ONOS are already deployed in production networks at Deutsche Telekom, Türk Telekom, and several other operators, as well as in trials at additional operators such as Telecom Italia. VOLTHA v2.10 focused on supporting Fiber to the Building (FTTB) workflow with management, ANCP […]
