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Tesla has appointed Robyn Denholm as Chair of the Tesla Board, effective immediately, replacing Elon Musk who steps aside as part of a settlement with the SEC. Denholm currently serves as CFO and Head of Strategy at Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications firm. She will be leaving Telstra to take on the Chairmanship of Tesla on […]
SCinet, the temporary network serving the SC18 conference in Dallas, anticipates peak load of 4.02 terabits per second as participants in this year’s top supercomputing event from academia, government and industry demonstrate their capabilities. Last year’s peak load was a record 3.6 Tbps. Forty organizations have collaborated to build SCInet at an estimated cost of […]
Sierra Wireless reported Q3 2018 revenue of $203.4 million, an increase of 17.9%, compared to $172.6 million in the third quarter of 2017. Gross margin was $67.3 million, or 33.1% of revenue, in the third quarter of 2018 compared to $57.3 million, or 33.2% of revenue, in the third quarter of 2017. Non-GAAP net earnings […]
U.S. Cellular selected Amdocs for a turnkey project to transform customer digital care and commerce experiences over its Web and mobile channels. Financial terms were not disclosed. This partnership supports U.S. Cellular’s commitment to deliver world-class digital experiences to its customers, unified across care, commerce and Web and mobile channels, while simplifying operations and reducing […]
GTT reported revenue of $448.6 million and a net loss was $23.4 million. Capital expenditures were $28.9 million (6.4% of revenue) When assuming constant currency and the inclusion of Interoute’s and Global Capacity’s historical results, GTT’s 3Q18 revenue and adjusted EBITDA grew 1.4% and 2.3%, respectively, over 3Q17. In addition, GTT established its next financial […]
At MEF18, PCCW Global presented a proof-of-concept demonstration that involved Sonata API functionality to enable service quoting, ordering, mocked-up service delivery, and billing. This PoC proves that is possible to deliver orchestrated services across a chain of carriers, says Shahar Steiff, AVP, New Technology, PCCW Global. It also highlights the importance of having a unified […]
Silver Peak, which has been actively participating in MEF to help develop the first SD-WAN specifications, sees a dramatic shift in the market, says Nav Chander, Senior Director, Service and Cloud Provider Marketing, Silver Peak. SD-WAN will become a platform for advanced wired and wireline services, merging IT transformation with network transformation. https://youtu.be/eKpmgwCTEIQ
Zayo Group announced it plans to separate into two publicly traded companies: one to focus on providing core communications infrastructure and another to leverage infrastructure to provide solutions for a broad set of enterprise customers. Zayo Infrastructure, “InfraCo,” will be comprised of the current Fiber Solutions and zColo business segments, along with the Wavelength and […]
Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre is now an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect location. This provides dedicated and private access to Oracle Cloud. Interxion customers colocating their network and private IT environments in any of Interxion’s 48 data centres across 11 countries in Europe can now access this service through Cloud Connect. “Customers require seamless connectivity from […]
CALIENT Technologies’ S320 optical circuit switch (OCS) will play a key connectivity role in SCinet, the “world’s fastest network” at next week’s SC18 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage in Dallas. The 320-port S320 OCS will be used to create an optical overlay network connecting core routers from Juniper and Cisco with […]
Three UK has completed a number of key steps in its network improvement programme, as part of a wider £2bn+ infrastructure investment, in preparation for the advent of 5G. Three UK announced its commitment to invest over £2 billion in network infrastructure as it rolls out 5G. As part of its network upgrade the telecoms […]
Qualcomm reported Q4 revenue of $5.8 billion, down 2% from the same period last year. Net income amounted to $1.3 billion, down 7% from $1.4 billion for its fiscal Q4 2017. “We delivered a strong quarter, with Non-GAAP earnings per share above the high end of our prior expectations, on greater than expected chipset demand […]
Nokia and China Unicom deployed a private LTE network for a BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd plant being built in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. A Nokia virtualized Multi-access Edge Computing (vMEC) solution integrated with China Unicom’s 4G network will provide low-latency support for smart manufacturing activities at the plant. By deploying the Nokia MEC platform on […]
