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Microsemi intros FPGA burst mode receiver for 10G PON
Microsemi introduced its PolarFire FPGA burst mode receiver (BMR) for compact 10G PON OLTs. The company said its new BMR solution enables customers to build OLTs in small form factor modules while drawing the lowest power in extreme thermal environments. The device supports small form factor pluggable (SFP) and 10 Gb SFP (XFP) footprints. “The…
Intel Architecture Day highlights – Foveros and Sunny Cove
At Intel “Architecture Day” this week in Santa Clara, California, Intel executives outlined a broad strategy to address “an expanding universe of data-intensive workloads for PCs and other smart consumer devices, high-speed networks, ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI), specialized cloud data centers and autonomous vehicles.” Intel’s overall strategy is anchored on six pillars: Process: Intel expects…
Amazon activates AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Amazon announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region with three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which are technology infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high…
FCC sets rules for 2019 5G incentive auction
The FCC adopted new rules that to promote the availability of high-band millimeter wave spectrum . The airwaves in the combined Upper 37 GHz and 39 GHz bands are the largest amount of contiguous spectrum available for wireless service in the millimeter wave bands — 2,400 megahertz in total — while the 47 GHz band…
FCC boosts funding for rural broadband, sets 25/3 Mbps minimum
The FCC will offer up to $67 million a year in additional support for carriers receiving funding through the Connect America Fund’s Alternative Connect America Cost Model, or A-CAM. The additional funding aims to help small, rural providers, known as rate-of-return carriers, to deliver faster broadband speeds and expanded coverage in rural areas. In return…
AT&T Fiber launches in 12 new metros
AT&T launched fiber broadband service in 12 new metros, bringing its total to 84. During 2018, AT&T passed over 3 million locations, bringing its total to 10 million locations passed. The newly launched metros are: Amarillo, Texas; Beaumont, Texas; Bowling Green, Ky; Florence, S.C.; Gainesville, Fla.; Hattiesburg, Miss.; Lake Charles, La.; Northeast Miss.; Panama City,…
ECI intros 1.2T Dual Channel Blade for its Apollo DWDM transport
ECI introduced its TM1200, a 1.2T blade (dual 600G channel) for its Apollo DWDM transport systems, enabling programmable, adaptive optical networking. ECI said its new TM1200 blade delivers unmatched spectral efficiency and elasticity through software controllable continuous modulation. Whereas traditional line-side modulation was only programmable in large increments – such as 100G, 200G or 400G…
Japanese carrier deploys Infinera’s mTera in metro backbone
A leading Japanese service provider and affiliate of Power Nets Japan (PNJ) has selected Infinera’s mTera Universal Transport Platform to scale its metro network infrastructure. The Infinera mTera will be deployed to support high-capacity interconnect between core data center sites in one of Japan’s major metropolitan areas. At the same time, the highly flexible solution…
Napatech ports its SmartNIC software to Intel Arria FPGAs
Napatech’s FPGA SmartNIC software is now available for the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA (PAC). Napatech said its Link Capture Software can now take advantage of the Intel PAC’s powerful Arria 10 GX FPGA to deliver line-rate packet capture and flow-aware forwarding for all packet sizes up to 40 Gbps.…
IDC: Worldwide server market revenue surged 37.7% in Q3
Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 37.7%, year over year to $23.4 billion during the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18) and worldwide server shipments increased 18.3% year over year to 3.2 million units, according to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. “The worldwide server market once again generated strong revenue and unit shipment growth…
Orange and Deutsche Telekom develop Djingo smart speaker
At the 6th Show Hello event in Paris, Orange and Deutsche Telekom, as part of the European AI Alliance, presented “Djingo,” a voice-controlled smart speaker designed to interface with other digital services, including Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. Djingo can be used to make hands-free calls at home, to interact with Orange TV and to control…
Tigera raises $30 million for Kubernetes security
Tigera, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $30 million in funding for its security and compliance solutions for Kubernetes platforms. Tigera says modern microservices architectures present a unique challenge for legacy security and compliance solutions since these new workloads are highly dynamic and ephemeral. This new architecture creates an explosion of internal, or east-west…
TIM completes first 5G NR video call using mmWave in Europe
TIM completed the first European 5G NR video call has been completed on the TIM network in the millimiter wave (mmWave) frequency band. The demonstration was completed using a smartphone form-factor test device powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem and using network infrastructure from Ericsson. TIM also inaugurated an Innovation Hub in Rome…