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NTT Communications ICT Solutions (NTT ICT) has selected Mellanox Technologies’ 25G and 100G Ethernet to accelerate their multi-cloud data centers. The upgrade includes: Spectrum-based switches running Cumulus Linux, ConnectX adapters, and LinkX cables and transceivers. NTT ICT is a premium global IT provider delivering solutions to Australian enterprise and government clients.
The MIPI Alliance confrimed that all of its specifications relevant for applications in mobile platforms are 5G ready. A whitepaper presented this week at MIPI DevCon Seoul argues that MIPI specifications are already capable of enabling 5G devices due to several factors: MIPI specifications are widely used by multiple industries. Virtually all 4G smartphones—along with […]
Arm is recommitting and expanding its ambitions to supply processors for network and data center infrastructure. The renewed effort is inspired by the goal of building one trillion connected things by 2035 — a figure cited by parent-company Softbank, whose multi-billion “Vision” fund invests in many start-ups across this ecosystem. At this week’s ARMTechCon conference […]
Will Service Providers be able to leverage the strategic advantage they have in Edge and Edge Clouds? Sally Bament, VP of Service Provider Marketing at Juniper Networks, comments. https://youtu.be/0xj-XQ0p_-4
Ciena introduced major additions to its Packet Networking portfolio, including new Adaptive IP capabilities, coherent optics, and purpose-built hardware platforms. The new capabilities and platforms address high-growth opportunities like the evolution from 4G to 5G, L2/L3/VNF Business Services, and Next-Generation Cable MSO Access. Highlights: Service-Aware Operating System (SAOS) enhanced with IP capabilities targeted at specific […]
10GbE to the laptop is coming. Akitio, a supplier of premium laptop accessories based in Orange County, California, is using Aquantia’s AQtion AQC107 Ethernet controller for their new Thunder3 Dock Pro with 10GbE. The new docking station will support both Windows and macOS. A single cable connected to the Akitio Thunder3 Dock Pro provides a […]
At a Tech Day event in San Jose, Samsung Electronics previewed a FPGA-powered SSD featured accelerated data processing and the ability to bypass current generation server CPU limits. Samsung’s forthcoming SmartSSD leverages quad-level cell (QLC)-SSD technology and an FPGA accelerator in the SSD unit for higher processing performance, improved time-to-insight, more virtual machines (VM), scalable […]
Orange has integrated EXFO’s passive virtual probes (vProbes) into the Beijing Release of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). The companies said this industry-first integration of a passive probing virtual network function (VNF) into the ONAP release delivers service assurance for SDN/NFV commercial deployments provides monitoring and troubleshooting of the service quality actually experienced by […]
CyrusOne announced new data centers in London and Frankfurt. Construction is set to be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of 2019 for the London III facility, which is located on the Slough Trading Estate, a premier data center location in the UK. CyrusOne’s London III data center will offer approximately 39,500 square […]
Mavenir confirmed that Telefónica Deutschland is deploying its virtualized IMS solution (vIMS) for VoLTE and VoWiFi in their nationwide UNICA Data Centers Infrastructure, which is based on the Telefónica Group blueprint for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) architecture. The solution will support mobile and fixed services for more than 45 million customer connections. Financial terms were […]
At the third annual the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Summit underway this week in London, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone announced a request for information (RFI) to investigate how they can adopt TIP technologies, which are supported by a growing ecosystem of vendors and manufacturers. The five TIP Project Groups — mmWave Networks, Open Optical […]
At the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Summit in London, Cumulus Networks announced a Transponder Abstraction Interface (TAI) that defines an API for providing a vendor-independent way to control transponders from various vendors and implementations in a uniform manner. Cumulus said TAI removes the friction for Network OS vendors to support new hardware while allowing chip […]
Edgecore Networks announced plans for Odyssey-DCSG, an open networking cell site gateway that conforms to the Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) specification developed by Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange, and TIM Brazil within the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). Edgecore said it will contribute the complete hardware design of the cell site gateway to TIP, and will make […]
