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EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, which is currently developing data center campuses in Dallas, Phoenix, Northern Virginia, Reno, has acquired land in Santa Clara, California, to build its fifth US data center campus. The campus is planned to support 80 MW of critical data center capacity and is located in the second largest US data center […]
NeoPhotonics announced preliminary revenue in the range of $90 to $92 million for Q4 2018, compared to the previously announced expectation of $87 to $92 million. Gross margin is expected to be approximately 24%-25%, compared to the previous expectation of 22%-26%. Total restructuring and other charges will be approximately $5.7 million, including restructuring costs, inventory […]
Choice Hotels International is going all-in moving its infrastructure to AWS. Specifically, Choice Hotels will migrate over 1,000 applications to AWS, moving off legacy systems to help improve performance, scalability, and reliability. AWS noted that it is already hosting some of Choice Hotels’ primary business applications, including its global reservation system (GRS) and distribution platform, […]
Telefónica completed its validation of Wind River Titanium Cloud as a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) for NFV workloads, in line with the multi VIM paradigm of their UNICA initiative. The multi-phase evaluation included functional testing of the Titanium Cloud virtualization platform. Test teams also validated the integration of Titanium Cloud with OSM orchestration to prove […]
Windstream will double the availability of its 100 Mbps Kinetic Internet Service across its 18-state footprint in the first quarter of 2019. By the end of March, approximately 30 percent of the households in Windstream’s local exchanges will qualify for 100 Mbps service by the end of March 2019. Windstream notes that network upgrades completed […]
Zoox, a start-up developing autonomous vehicle systems, named Aicha Evans as its new CEO and a member of its Board of Directors. Evans most recently served as Intel’s Chief Strategy Officer, where she oversaw Intel’s transformation from a PC-centric to a data-centric company. Previously, Evans was General Manager of the Communication and Devices Group, where […]
Teradata appointed Oliver Ratzesberger as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Victor L. Lund, who is transitioning from his role as President and CEO to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Ratzesberger has served as Teradata’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) since February 2018, responsible for the company’s global operations and leading its […]
Ribbon Communications expects non-GAAP revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the full year ended December 31, 2018 to meet the guidance provided on October 30, 2018, with full year 2018 non-GAAP revenue to be at or above $610 million and adjusted EBITDA to be in excess of $80 million. “I am pleased to announce that we […]
Scrutiny of Huawei’s business practices intensified as Polish authorities arrested Mr. Wang Weijing, an employee of Huawei, along with a former Polish security official on spying allegations, according to Reuters. The report states that the former Polish security official is currently employed by Orange Polska. Later, Huawei spokesman Joe Kelly was quoted by the New […]
Zayo announced a major contract with a global technology company for a dark fiber connecting key markets nationwide. The contract covers thousands of miles of Zayo’s extensive dark fiber networks across multiple regions in the U.S., including the recently announced Columbus, Ohio to Ashburn, Virginia and Dallas, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia routes. Zayo said the […]
The final 10 Iridium NEXT satellites were successfully launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This was the eighth and final launch for Iridium’s historic launch campaign with SpaceX, seeing a total of 75 new satellites deployed over less than two years. The Iridium network is […]
Ericsson and Qualcomm completed a non-standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) data call using the 2.6 GHz band. The bi-directional downlink and uplink data call was made at the Ericsson Lab in Kista, Sweden last December 20. The lab demonstration used Ericsson’s commercially available 5G hardware – including its 5G NR radio AIR 6488 and […]
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom demonstrated a millimeter wave link with a data transmission rate of 40 Gbps. The live trial covered a hop distance of 1.4 kilometers in the millimeter wave (E-band) spectrum. The technical setup included Ericsson’s MINI-LINK 6352 microwave solution and Router 6000. The round-trip latency performance of the link tested was less […]
