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Vodafone New Zealand is unveiling an adaptable and agile network that can respond in real time to its customers’ changing demands. The adaptive network provides business customers with a digital user-interface for requesting additional network capacity. Vodafone can also set customer-defined service policies and program its network to suggest the ideal capacity, hardware configuration and […]
QTnet, a communications service provider in Kyushu, Japan, has selected Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform to support growing demand for telecommunications services. QTnet offers fiber optic cable, internet, video and broadband telecommunications services to hundreds of thousands of households and enterprises and local governments. Ciena said its 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic Ai programmable coherent […]
MEF18 featured a lot of hot topics, especially network automation, SDN, NFV, and SD-WAN, says Roopa Honnachari, Industry Director, Business Communication Services & Cloud Services, Frost & Sullivan. MEF’s work in standardizing SD-WAN service specification, as well as its MEF 3.0 framework for orchestrated services, is helping to drive the digital transformation of enterprise customers. […]
The worldwide 5G network infrastructure market is expected to grow from approximately $528 million in 2018 to $26 billion in 2022, according to IDC’s inaugural forecast for this market segment, and representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 118%. The 5G network infrastructure market includes 5G RAN, 5G NG core, NFVI, routing and optical […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering cloud instances based on AMD EPYC processors. The new general purpose (M5 and T3) and memory-optimized (R5) instance types with AMD EPYC processors that are 10% less expensive than the current M5, T3, and R5 instances. AWS said the AMD-based instances provide additional options for customers who are looking […]
NTT Communications will establish a new NTT Global Data Centers Preparatory Corporation as the first step in creating a wholly owned subsidiary to comprehensively handle data center construction, asset management and wholesale services for NTT Group companies on a global basis. NTT Global Data Centers Preparatory Corporation will respond to rapidly growing demands for data […]
Eurofiber, which operates an extensive fiber network across The Netherlands and Belgium, is deploying the ADVA FSP 150 as the customer premise equipment of its new flexible business services. The ADVA FSP 150 provides a single platform for MEF-certified Layer 2 and 3 services and easily scales from 1GbE to 10GbE. With zero touch provisioning, […]
Broadcom completed its previously announced acquisition of CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA). CA will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom. “Today, we are pleased to complete this transaction, which strengthens Broadcom’s position as a leading provider of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions and enables us to better serve our customers,” said Hock Tan, President […]
Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm, will acquire Veracode, the leading provider in next-generation application security testing (AST), from Broadcom for $950 million in cash. Veracode’s SaaS platform and integrated solutions help security teams and software developers find and fix security-related defects at all points in the software development lifecycle. Veracode serves more […]
Qualcomm Technologies is expanding its efforts with China’s growing ecosystem of leading automakers and suppliers to commercialize LTE Vehicle-to-Everything (LTE-V2X) direct communication technology based on 3GPP Release 14 specifications. LTE-V2X, which is also known as C-V2X, is designed to support improved automotive safety, traffic efficiency, and automated driving using high performance and reliable real-time direct […]
Twilio reported total revenue of $168.9 million for the third quarter of 2018, up 68% from the third quarter of 2017 and 14% sequentially from the second quarter of 2018. GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders of $0.28 based on 98.0 million weighted average shares outstanding in the third quarter of 2018, […]
Infinera reported Q3 2018 GAAP revenue of $200.4 million compared to $208.2 million in the second quarter of 2018 and $192.6 million in the third quarter of 2017. GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 35.0% compared to 40.5% in the second quarter of 2018 and 35.2% in the third quarter of 2017. GAAP net […]
Toshiba Memory Corporation has developed a high-speed and high-energy-efficiency algorithm and hardware architecture for deep learning processing with less degradations of recognition accuracy. The company is developing a new processor for deep learning implemented on an FPGA. In addition, Toshiba Memory is working on a new hardware architecture, called bit-parallel method, which is suitable for […]
