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Six companies achieved a position on Vertical Systems Group’s mid-year 2022 U.S. Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD (in rank order based on retail port share as of June 30, 2022): Lumen, AT&T, Spectrum Enterprise, Verizon, Comcast Business and Cox Business. To qualify for a rank on this LEADERBOARD, network providers must have four percent (4%) or more […]
Lightmatter, a start-up based in Boston developing a new class of photonic processing chip, named Richard Ho as its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho,who spent nearly 9 years at Google leading the Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) project, will spearhead Lightmatter’s chip engineering division, with a focus on developing and deploying Lightmatter’s state-of-the-art […]
A memo from Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, which was leaked online, urger all 195,000 company employees to brace for bitter times during the coming recession. Ren advises the company to cut back on marginal businesses and instead focus on profitability as a urgent survival strategy. Separately, other news media in China revealed that Huawei is […]
In what it described as a “challenging quarter” driven primarily by weaker gaming revenue, NVIDIA reported revenue of $6.70 billion for the second quarter ended July 31, 2022, up 3% from a year ago and down 19% from the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.26, down 72% from a […]
Teltech Group, which offers logistics/supply chain services, asset management and technology solutions, is deploying Betacom 5G as a Service to automate its 200,000 square-foot warehouse in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. Teltech consolidated four Dallas/Fort Worth-area warehouses into a single warehouse in 2020, developing the entire space and supporting systems from scratch. The Betacom private […]
OFS is reselling Go!Foton’s Midspan Clamshell Hardened Terminal (MCHT) for network projects supporting OFS customers worldwide. The Midspan Clamshell Hardened Terminal offers hardened connectivity without the need for hardened connectors. The clamshell design provides IP68 protection for each individual connection while enabling fast, easy, and secure optical drop cable deployment. The MCHT’s IP68-rated water-sealed mid-span […]
Cisco announced the appointment of Sarah Rae Murphy to its board of directors. Murphy served in several executive roles during her 16 years at United Airlines, most recently as chief procurement officer and senior vice president of Global Sourcing. In addition to Murphy, Cisco board members include: M. Michele Burns, Wesley G. Bush, Michael D. […]
The MIPI Alliance will be hosting a complementary virtual event on 20-21 September to feature technical sessions for developers, system architects and other implementers of MIPI specifications. The virtual event will feature two days of expert sessions on key MIPI specifications, as well as application examples and implementation experiences across a range of areas, including […]
Google’s “Jupiter” data center network combines optical circuit switching (OCS) and wave division multiplexing (WDM) technology to ensure uniform, arbitrary communication among tens of thousands of servers at 100s of Gbps of bandwidth with sub-100us latency, according to a blog post by Amin Vahdat, Google’s VP/GM Systems and Services Infrastructure. Jupiter currently supports more than […]
Intel announced a cost-sharing partnership in which the infrastructure affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the largest global alternative asset managers, will provide Intel with a new, expanded pool of capital for manufacturing build-outs. Intel describes its new Semiconductor Co-Investment Program (SCIP) as a new funding model that will accelerate its IDM 2.0 foundry […]
PEACE Cable International Network Co. announced the final slicing of the Pakistan-Egypt segment of its subsea cable system, thus enabling ready-for-service connectivity from Karachi, Pakistan to Marseille, France. The PEACE Pakistan-Egypt segment connects Karachi, Pakistan and Zafarana, Egypt, spanning a total length of 5,800 km. The landings of Karachi and Zafarana were completed in March […]
Adela Technologies, a Maryland-based managed security service provider (MSSP), is using CoreSite’s hybrid IT environment, which combines compliant colocation with native onramps to leading cloud providers, to provide hosted security solutions. Adela’s customer base ranging from small businesses to government entities such as the Department of Defense (DoD). The company chose to deploy its physical […]
https://youtu.be/ooLtVCLPM6s Where is the U.S. critical infrastructure 6 months after CISA launched the “Shields Up” program? Can the “shields” ever be taken down at this point with so many adversaries interested in disrupting the US? Given the disparities in resources across certain industries, which area is most behind? Ron Fabela, CTO and Co-founder, SynSaber, offers […]
