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Marvell has confirmed that that leading cable manufacturers, including Amphenol, Molex, and TE Connectivity, are sampling to cloud data center operators their 100G/lane active electrical cables (AECs) powered by Marvell Alaska A PAM4 DSPs. At these speeds, the physical reach achievable with passive direct attach cables (DACs) falls short of the distance requirements for server-to-ToR […]
Credo unveiled its 1.6Tbps OSFP-XD HiWire CLOS Active Electrical Cable (AEC) supporting lengths up to 2.75m in a thin, compact, cable form factor to support the dense spine switching requirements for next generation hyperscale data centers. The 1.6Tbps OSFP-XD AEC supports 16 bi-directional lanes of 112Gbps communication with an industry standard Attachement Unit Interface (AUI) […]
International Data Corporation (IDC) is maintaining its forecast for 2% growth in nominal dollar denominated revenue this year for worldwide IT and business services. This corresponds to a 5.7% growth rate if measures in constant currency. IDC maitains the forecast even against the backdrop of a global recession. Worldwide GDP growth has worsened since March/April […]
D-Wave Quantum is introducing four offerings in AWS Marketplace, including: Leap Quantum Cloud Service: The Leap quantum cloud service provides real-time access to D-Wave’s quantum computers and a quantum-classical hybrid solver service that can handle problems with up to one million variables and 100,000 constraints. Leap will be available in AWS Marketplace soon, and Amazon […]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations is now available on AWS, The service, which is accessible via an Amazon-provided NICE DCV client or standard web browsers, delivers a high-end Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations environment for powering intensive workloads like animation rendering or data visualization. It supports a variety of GPU-accelerated hardware instances offered […]
Verizon reported total revenue of $34.2 billion for Q3 2022, an increase of 4.0 percent from third-quarter 2021. Net income was $5.0 billion, a decrease of 23.3 percent from third-quarter 2021, and adjusted EBITDA1 of $12.2 billion, down 0.4 percent year over year. “We took a number of actions in the third quarter that helped […]
“You can feel the energy”. Rebecca Weekly, Chair of the Open Computer Project, provides a wrap-up of this year’s #OCPSummit20222 in San Jose, California. Sustainability has become a key tenet for everything at OCP. A new working group was established. Future technologies, including optical interconnects, are being explored. Innovation in data center infrastructure remains the […]
Ericsson’s shares experienced a sharp drop on Thursday after the company reported that Q3 Group Net Sales grew by 3% organically to SEK 68.0 billion (approx. US$6.031 billion), driven by strong performance from Networks. Börje Ekholm, President and CEO of Ericsson, stated: “We see robust underlying performance and strong momentum in the business as we […]
Marvell’s first 3nm silicon is now in fabrication with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on its 3nm shuttle. Marvell said this advancement will enable it to develop some of the most advanced multi-die, multi-chiplet systems-in-package (SiP) for its infrastructure products and co-development of custom ASIC solutions optimized for some of the most challenging infrastructure use […]
AT&T disclosed plans of getting to an even dozen 5G Edge Zones by the end of 2022, up from the current count of 10. The Edge Zone facilities are standalone network cores with software defined network capabilities located in network data centers close to cross connect facilities that have fast connections to nearby cloud facilities […]
Arelion completed a series of trials with Acacia and Cisco over multiple, third-party, open line systems. On a live fiber route with existing ROADM infrastructure between Hamburg and Copenhagen, Arelion successfully leveraged Acacia Bright 400ZR+ QSFP-DD coherent modules with greater than +1 dBm transmit power between Cisco 8000 and NCS 5700 router platforms. The trial […]
Citing strong, sustained momentum in customer additions across its growing 5G wireless and fiber networks, AT&T reported Q3 2022 revenue of $30.0 billion versus $31.3 billion in the year-ago quarter, down 4.1% reflecting the impact of the U.S. Video separation in July 2021. Excluding the impact of U.S. Video, operating revenues for standalone AT&T were […]
Equinix announced a US$45 million investment for the construction of BG2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) in Bogotá – its second data center in Colombia. The new facility, which is scheduled to open in the first half of 2023, will offer around 32,000 square feet (approximately 2,900 square meters) of colocation space, making it […]
