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Kioxia announced the industry’s first 2 TB microSDXC memory card working prototypes. The KIOXIA 2TB microSDXC UHS-I memory card is based on the company’s BiCS FLASHTM 3D flash memory and an in-house designed controller. The SD Association’s SDXC specification has supported memory cards up to 2TB for more than a decade – but 2TB cards […]
Nokia has appointed Shaun McCarthy as President of North America Sales, reporting directly to Chief Customer Experience Officer Ricky Corker. McCarthy joins Nokia from Cisco where he was vice president of worldwide sales for the Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group. At Cisco, he was instrumental in building a world-class sales team, leading multiple strategic M&A activities, and […]
CEOs of Europe’s leading telecom operators published an open statement calling on the European Commission to address their perceived imbalance in cost sharing for network infrastructure. The telecom CEOs argue that the largest generators of Internet traffic are not contributing enough to cover the costs of the networks needed to deliver their services. “A fair […]
C&W Networks, a wholesale telecommunications service provider that is part of Cable & Wireless Communications and a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Latin America, is upgrading its CFX-1 (Colombia-Florida Express) and EWC (East West Cable) submarine cable networks with Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme. The upgrades will enable broadband and IP services of up to 400 Gbps. […]
NTT and Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) achieved the world’s fastest zero-bias operation1(220 GHz) of a graphene photodetector (PD). The research clarifies the optical-to-electrical (O-E) conversion process in graphene for the first time. Graphene has high sensitivity and high-speed electrical response to a wide range of electromagnetic waves, from terahertz (THz) to ultraviolet […]
Stratus Networks, a provider of wholesale and private fiber network solutions based in Illinois, has selected the Ekinops 1651, a 10Gb/s Ethernet Access Device for wireless backhaul connectivity. Stratus is now also using the Ekinops OneOS6-based 1651 10G Ethernet Access Device (EAD) to provide wholesale, MEF-compliant, EPL (E-Access Ethernet Private Line) services to a third-party […]
T-Mobile is testing an inspection robot from InDro Robotics, the leading Canadian air and ground robotics research and development company. InDro Robotics’ Sentinel was chosen by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to evaluate ground-roving robotics based on its ability to provide 24-hour substation asset inspection and security monitoring. Sentinel was up to the task […]
Cloudflare is developing a Zero Trust SIM for mobile devices. This will allow organizations to quickly and securely connect employee devices to Cloudflare’s global network, directly integrate devices with Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform, and protect their network and employees. Additionally, Cloudflare will be launching Zero Trust for Mobile Operators, a new wireless carrier partner program […]
What’s next at ECOC for Marvell? It’s all about cloud-optimized cloud connectivity, says Josef Berger, AVP Marketing, Marvell. At ECOC22, Marvell showcased its Deneb and Canopus coherent digital signal processors (DSPs). The company demonstrated its 112G 5nm IP and its newest “Spica” DSP for 800G optics transceivers, its Atlas DSP for 50G in RAN […]
Keysight Technologies and Nokia Bell Labs have successfully tested a 260 GBaud ultra-high-speed optical signal transmission over 100 km of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF), exceeding the previous record of 220 GBaud. The companies combined expertise with other research partners to create the record-breaking demonstration of 260 GBaud Dual Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) coherent […]
Lumen Technologies has acquired a fiber pair on Grace Hopper, a subsea cable system spearheaded by Google, between New York and Bude, Cornwall in the U.K. The Grace Hopper system will use Lumen landing station and infrastructure services at both locations. Lumen is taking orders now on Grace Hopper which will be active and ready […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is offering up to $42 million in funding for the development of high-performance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. Data centers account for approximately 2% of total U.S. electricity production while data center cooling can account for up to 40% of data center energy usage overall. DOE’s Advanced […]
Rockley Photonics unveiled what it believes to be the world’s first micro-transfer-printed (mTP) silicon-photonics-based laser for commercial applications. With this breakthrough in the mTP of silicon-photonics-based lasers, Rockley has dramatically increased the laser density of its photonics integrated circuits (PICs) for biosensing, creating what it believes to be the world’s highest-density broad-wavelength laser spectrophotometer chip, […]
