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Alaska Communications is collaborating with Oregon State University’s College of Engineering to allow wave activity data to be collected from the ocean floor via the company’s subsea fiber optic cable. Oregon State Assistant Professor of Coastal Engineering, Meagan Wengrove, Ph.D., her Ph.D. student and two post-doctoral researchers traveled to Alaska Communications’ landing station in Florence, […]
Juniper Networks naemd Chris Kaddaras as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Officer, Rami Rahim. Prior to Juniper, Chris served as Chief Revenue Officer at Transmit Security, a provider of customer identity and access management SaaS solutions. Before that, he held multiple roles at Nutanix from 2016-2021, including Chief Revenue […]
Dell Technologies unveiled Project Frontier, an edge operations software platform integrated with its edge portfolio of servers and switches. Dell’s Project Frontier aims to more securely scale edge operations. Customers can expect: Their choice of software applications, IoT frameworks, operational technologies (OT), multicloud environments and future technologies supported by an open design that will consolidate […]
Zayo launched a set of Edge Network Solutions that includes: Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): Enhance application performance by connecting users and the cloud with a unified security posture and resilient network technology regardless of location or technology. Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS): Collaborate more effectively and optimize productivity […]
Ericsson, Swisscom and NETSCOUT collaborated on a cloud-based packet data processing solution that provides automatic access to packet data and the ability to analyze raw packet data. The solution aims to overhaul the traditional virtualised mobile network function (where data traffic is routed from the cloud and processed physically in a conventional manner). Instead, cloud-based packet […]
Lockheed Martin is partnering with Ayar Labs in developing multi-chip package (MCP) solutions which place high-density, high-efficiency optical I/O chiplets in the same microelectronics package as the RF processing devices. The collaboration will integrate the Ayar Labs TeraPHY optical I/O chiplets and SuperNova light source in new sensory platforms that could be used across Department […]
Octasic unveiled its new corporate branding that better reflects the company’s 24-years of industry expertise and its vision to become a leader in the creation of the most advanced custom wireless solutions across the commercial, government, and defence markets. Octasic, which is based in Montreal, offers develops programmable silicon for mission-critical custom wireless applications. Octasic […]
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are now available on Microsoft Azure, extending the Nutanix hybrid cloud environment to Microsoft Azure dedicated bare metal nodes in North America. Customers can now run workloads on NC2 on Azure and manage Azure instances from Nutanix’s management interface. Nutanix says this enables customers to run hybrid workloads seamlessly across private […]
NASA awarded contracts to two companies – Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia – to develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communications and navigation services in support of Artemis missions to the Moon. The awards, under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement […]
Comcast Corporation named Mike Cavanagh has been as President. With this promotion, Mike will work closely with Chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts to manage the businesses and teams across the company. Mike will be only the third President in the company’s 59-year history. He will remain Chief Financial Officer. Mike joined Comcast seven years […]
The U.S. Department of Energy unveiled the newest generation of its high- performance Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), which connects all of DoE’s national laboratories, tens of thousands of DoE-funded researchers, and DoE’s premier scientific instruments and supercomputing centers. In 2021, ESnet carried over 1.1 exabytes of science data. Traffic on ESnet increases by a factor […]
Google Cloud announced new regions in five more countries: Austria, Greece, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden. This builds on new cloud regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand that were announced in August. In addition, Google Cloud already opened new regions this year in in Milan, Italy; Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; Columbus, Ohio; and […]
In this 26-minute session, Gabriele Di Piazza, Sr. Director, Product Management, Google Cloud discusses network evolution with guests from Bell Canada and AT&T. Topics include: (1) How Google Cloud is helping CSPs transform (2) 5G cloud-native network evolution (3) Bell Canada’s journey to cloud-native (4) 5G edge monetization Summary: Delivering a cloud based telecom […]
