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Community Fibre, a fibre-to-the-home internet provider based in London, has selected ADTRAN as its technology partner to deliver 10G residential and business services in the UK. The deployment will leverage ADTRAN’s XGS-PON solutions. Community Fibre is starting with London and expanding into other areas in the UK over the next several years. “We are seeing […]
In a keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Larry Ellison introduced Oracle’s second generation cloud architecture featuring “Star Wars cyber defenses – an impenetrable force field with autonomous robots for finding threats and killing them.” Current generation public clouds, use commodity servers built with standard silicon. A common base of cloud control code […]
Intel introduced a new multimode 10G PON chipset designed for small form-factor pluggable optical network termination (SFP+ ONU) and single family unit (SFU) ONUs. In a blog post, Intel’s Dirk Wieberneit writes that SFP+ ONU plays a crucial role in fiber deployments by providing entire ONU (Mac and PHY) connectivity between the 10G PON optical […]
Infinera introduced a packet-optical aggregation and transport solution designed for the delivery of high-speed, low-latency services in access networks. The new 1.6 terabit High-Density Ethernet Aggregator (HDEA), which is part of the Infinera XTM Series, is an access-optimized packet-optical aggregator that seamlessly integrates optical transport capabilities, Metro Ethernet Forum Carrier Ethernet 2.0-compliant Layer 2 Ethernet […]
Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom announced a cross investment agreement aimed at strengthening their competitiveness in 5G. Under the agreement, SK Telecom plans to invest in MobiledgeX, the edge computing company founded by Deutsche Telekom and headquartered in Menlo Park, California MobiledgeX is focused on delivering developer-facing edge computing services. Deutsche Telekom plans to invest […]
The Pakistan East Africa Cable Express (PEACE) Cable project, which will connect Asia, Africa and Europe, has entered into the cable and material manufacturing stage. The PEACE cable system will span 12,000 km and is designed for 200G, 16Tbps per fiber pair connectitivity. The ready for service date is targetted for first quarter of 2020. […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA), which was recently formed by leading satellite companies, including Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat, announced today that up to 200 MHz of mid-band (C-band downlink) spectrum could be cleared, dependent upon demand, under its updated proposal to the U.S. FCC. This would open new spectrum to support 5G. The CBA said […]
Zayo announced a contract with a major retailer to connect its core and edge data centers across the U.S. with fully diverse 10G and 100G wavelengths. Financial terms were not disclsoed. “Retail is in an exciting transformation, and Zayo is well positioned to help the customer achieve its goal of fast delivery to key locations […]
NEC and Samsung Electronics are close to announcing a strategic alliance in 5G base stations, according to numerous sources over the weekend. Samsung is already a key supplier of network infrastructure to KDDI. An alliance with NEC could help open doors to NTT Docomo. KDDI and Samsung prove 5G mmWave works at 190 kmh Tuesday, […]
Nokia is building a private LTE network for Brazilian power distributor Elektro, part of the Neoenergia/Iberdrola group. The private LTE network, which is the first in the country, is expected to help increase the reliability and efficiency of the electrical grid in the City of Atibaia and surrounding areas in the state of Sao Paulo. […]
Twilio introduced a “Super SIM” that enables developers to use a single API to deploy Internet of things (IoT) devices globally. The Super SIM leverages Twilio’s mobile core infrastructure, which is a software implementation of a mobile core, 2G, 3G and LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in the cloud, along with its Over-The-Air (OTA) platform […]
Corning announced a big milestone in its environmental sustainability improvement program. The company has reduced energy intensity in its global fiber and cable manufacturing facilities by 50 percent. The improvement was achieved through technology upgrades, equipment optimization, and sharing best sustainability practices across the business. Energy intensity is a measure of kilowatt hours of energy […]
Deutsche Telekom commissioned over 400 new mobile base stations across its home market in Q3, pushing LTE coverage in Germany to 97.6% of the population. The company says it is on track to raise the number of mobile base stations in Germany from 27,000 in 2017 to 36,000 in 2021. Population coverage is set to […]
