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ThreatX, a start-up based in Boston, announced $30 million in Series B funding for its API protection platform. ThreatX said its platform protects APIs from multiple threats, including DDoS attempts, bot attacks, API abuse, exploitations of known vulnerabilities, and zero-day attacks. “While APIs bring rich opportunities to companies across nearly every market, they can also […]
FC Bayern and Deutsche Telekom agreed to an early extension of their 20-year partnership until 2027. Telekom will continue to have exclusive access to content from the club, which the company offers to its customers via FC Bayern.tv on MagentaTV. Oliver Kahn, FC Bayern CEO: “We’re very happy that Deutsche Telekom has been at FC […]
Napatech announced a significant company milestone: 350,000 programmable SmartNIC port shipments to date. Napatech notes that the annual demand for data center servers is forecasted to grow from 12 million to 18 million units. Each server requires connectivity from a network interface card (NIC) and requires anywhere from two to eight NICs per server. This […]
Credo introduced its 112G PAM4 SerDes Intellectual Property (IP) family on TSMC’s N5 and N4 process technologies. Credo’s IP supports a wide range of demands including long reach plus (LR+), long reach (LR), medium reach (MR), extreme short reach plus (XSR+), and extreme short reach (XSR), – required by applications including compute, switching, AI, machine […]
Keysight Technologies reported Q3 revenue of $1.38 billion, up 10% compared with $1.25 billion last year, or 13 percent on a core basis, which excludes the impact of foreign currency changes and revenue associated with businesses acquired or divested within the last twelve months. GAAP net income was $338 million, or $1.87 per share, compared […]
Ceragon Networks announced that a top tier operator in North America selected its equipment, software, rollout, and managed services for a large expansion project. The name of the customer was not disclosed. Ceragon has already started receiving equipment orders and expects remaining orders to be completed in 2022. Project rollout is expected to start early […]
Lintasarta, Indonesia’s leading information and communications technology services company, has chosen IP Infusion’s Aggregation Router and Data Center solutions to upgrade its legacy network for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Segment Routing (SR). In addition to upgrading legacy devices, IP Infusion solutions interoperated with the existing network providing a seamless path for network migration. IP Infusion […]
Nokia demonstrated a 600 Gbps line rate on Telekom Serbia and MTEL’s optical transport network over a distance of 600km between Banja Luka and Belgrade. The test utilized Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), powered by its PSE-Vs chipset. Nokia demonstrated 600Gbit/s line performance over a 600km path consisting in 6 spans, through C-F ROADM […]
Global cumulative Service Provider (SP) Router and Switch market revenues are projected to approach $76 billion by 2026, representing a 2 percent CAGR for the forecast period, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. The adoption of 400 Gbps routing technologies is expected to continue driving the overall market growth, allowing both Telecom and […]
Sales of specialized components for co-packaged optics (CPO) will exceed $1.3 billion in revenues in 2025 and grow to $2.7 billion by 2028, according to Communications Industry Researchers’ (CIR) latest CPO report, “Markets for Co-Packaged Optics 2022-2030”. The report analyzes both component and module-level CPO product developments. CIR’s new report examines the latest developments in […]
Viavi Solutions is launching a 6G Forward program to provide its expertise, technology, and funding to promising avenues of academic research. The company is already supporting 6G research at three universities: Northeastern University and the University of Texas at Austin in the US and the University of Surrey in the UK. At Northeastern University, VIAVI […]
Lumentum reported net revenue of $422.1 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, ended July 2, 2002, with GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders of $34.7 million, or $0.49 per diluted share. Net revenue for the fiscal third quarter of 2022 was $395.4 million, with GAAP net income of $26.0 million, or $0.35 per diluted […]
KKR, a leading global investment firm, has acquired Barracuda Networks from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Barracuda is a cloud-first provider of cybersecurity solutions for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The company claims more than 200,000 customers worldwide. “We’re ready to deliver on our […]
