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NTT Electronics has established a majority-owned subsidiary called fJscaler to focus on differentiated electronics integrated circuits (ICs) that powers its 100G+ coherent DSP product portfolio. fJscaler, a new majority owned subsidiary of NTT Electronics, is a fabless semiconductor group designing high-speed, high-performance ICs for coherent optics, as well as several related interconnects in the optical […]
Citing an “easing supply situation,” Cisco reported first quarter revenue of $13.6 billion, up 6% year-over-year, net income (GAAP) of $2.7 billion or $0.65 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $3.5 billion or $0.86 per share. “Our fiscal 2023 is off to a good start as we delivered the largest quarterly revenue and second […]
NVIDIA reported Q3 2022 revenue of $5.93 billion, down 17% from a year ago and down 12% from the previous quarter. Net income was $1.456 billion, down 51% yoy. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.58, down 50% from a year ago and up 14% from the previous quarter. “We are quickly adapting to the […]
Amazon announced the opening on AWS Region in Aragón, Spain. The regions is officially named Europe (Spain) and the API name is eu-south-2. The AWS Europe (Spain) Region has three Availability Zones (AZ), enabling the deployment of applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains […]
Members of the O-RAN Alliance elected Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom, as the new chairman of the Board. Dr. Choi had previously served as COO of O-RAN ALLIANCE since its founding in 2018. In the chairmanship he replaces Andre Fuetsch, who served as chairman from 2018 until his retirement from […]
Ahead of the World Cup, Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has deployed Infinera’s ICE6 800G optical engine across its submarine and terrestrial networks between the Middle East and Europe. The upgrade to ICE6 doubles GBI’s network capacity and provides connections of up to 800G per wavelength. GBI was able to rapidly and seamlessly integrate this new […]
ArmorCode, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, secured a $14 million in Series A funding for its AppSecOps. ArmorCode’s AppSecOps platform provides application security posture, vulnerability and compliance management, as well as DevSecOps automation. The funding round was led by Ballistic Ventures, the venture capital firm solely focused on backing cybersecurity startups, founded by […]
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) kicked off a new specification development project to define the operation of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) in additional unlicensed mid-band spectrum, including the 6 GHz frequency band. Bluetooth is the most widely deployed wireless standard in the world with over 5 billion products shipping each year. “Over the last […]
Lumen Technologies confirmed plans to expand its residential and small business fiber internet service, Quantum Fiber, in more than 30 cities and metro areas in the U.S. Local Quantum Fiber teams are working on expansions in the following cities and surrounding metro areas: Albuquerque, N.M., Boise, Idaho, Bozeman, Mont., Cheyenne, Wyo., Colorado Springs, Colo., Denver, […]
Linux Foundation Europe announced the formation of Project Sylva, which aims to create a new, open source production-grade Telco Cloud Stack. Project Sylva’s common cloud software framework and adjacent Reference Implementation will reduce fragmentation of the cloud infrastructure layer for telecommunication and edge services. Project Sylva is backed by five European carriers (Telefonica, Telecom Italia, […]
by Benedict Chua, Associate Editor The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) has selected Nokia to lead the KOMSENS-6G project, which aims to drive global pre-standardization activities from a German and European perspective, with a specific focus on the network as a sensor technology. Nokia will work closely […]
The IRIS Sub-Sea Telecoms Cable System connecting Galway, Ireland to Iceland has now been completed. The IRIS system will be ready for service in the first quarter of 2023 and will be the third submarine fibre optic cable system connecting Iceland with Europe. The system provides further redundancy in telecommunication connection between Iceland and Europe, […]
Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) announced two new fully diverse routes from the US into Monterrey, Mexico. Arelion’s routes leverage the latest open optical line systems and support multi-vendor 400G wave capability, including Bright ZR+ disaggregated optics, offering resilient local connectivity and flexible high-speed access to content, application and cloud providers in the US. With the […]
