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AT&T leads Vertical Systems Group’s Mid-Year 2018 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD published this month. The results are as follows (in rank order based on retail port share): AT&T (U.S.), Colt (U.K.), CenturyLink (U.S.), Orange Business (France), BT Global Services (U.K.), Verizon (U.S.) and NTT (Japan). The Global Provider LEADERBOARD, the industry’s benchmark for multinational Ethernet […]
Ericsson will supply a new end-to-end 5G IP transport network to Swisscom. The deployment will use Ericsson’s Router 6000 and Juniper Networks’ 5G core routing portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ericsson said it takes end-to-end responsibility for Swisscom’s 4G and 5G networks – from radio base stations to the data center. This includes hosting […]
The combined consumer and enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments rose 1.9% year over year in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18) with worldwide revenues of $2.5 billion, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker. “The enterprise WLAN market continues to see moderate, steady growth, underscoring the importance of wireless networking for businesses […]
SpaceX successfully launched of the Telstar 18 VANTAGE satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Telstar 18 VANTAGE, which was built by SSL, is the third high throughput satellite (HTS) in Telesat’s global fleet and the first with coverage over the Asia Pacific region. It will […]
Keysight Technologies has supplied its 5G network emulation solutions to accelerate 5G New Radio (NR) device development and verification to ASUS. ASUS is using Keysight’s 5G network emulation solutions to validate new designs that support the latest 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) Release 15 specifications, including beamforming and beam management technologies across both sub-6GHz and […]
Qualcomm and Ericsson successfully completed a 3GPP Rel-15 spec compliant 5G NR call on a smartphone form factor mobile test device. The over-the-air (OTA) call was performed using millimeter wave (mmWave) in the 39 GHz band of spectrum using NSA (Non-Standalone) mode. It utilized Ericsson’s commercial 5G NR radio AIR 5331 and baseband products and […]
Verizon and Nokia announced another 5G milestone: completion of the first over-the-air, end-to-end data transmission on a commercial 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) network in Washington DC. The signal was carried over commercially deployed Nokia radio equipment and Verizon’s millimeter wave spectrum and 5G network core to a Nokia test van parked in downtown Washington. […]
Anritsu has released new firmware downloads for the BERTWave MP2110A Sampling Oscilloscope that boosts its PAM4 analysis function from 26 Gbaud to 53 Gbaud for the production and inspection of optical modules. Anritsu notes that current optical modules such as CFP8s use 26-Gbaud PAM4 optical signals, while future mass-produced QSFP-DD and OSFP modules will use […]
CASSCOMM. which serves nine counties in central Illinois, is deploying ADTRAN’s next-generation EPON OLTs for full 1G EPON and 10G EPON fiber service delivery, and GPON and Active Ethernet fiber technologies to enhance ultra-fast and gigabit broadband service availability across its network. CASSCOMM is initially targeting a 550-home residential network build with its new fiber […]
GlobeNet and Facebook kicked off construction of anew submarine cable system linking Brazil and Argentina. GlobeNet and Facebook will co-own the system and it will be operated by GlobeNet. The “Malbec” cable, which is named after the renowned Argentinian wine, will span 2,500 km linking Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires, with […]
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6.7 billion in revenue in 2Q18, an increase of 4.8% year over year, according to IDC Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker and IDC Quarterly Router Tracker. “Dynamics in the Ethernet switching market continue to shift as enterprise and service providers are demanding higher-speed Ethernet switch products,” said Rohit […]
Facebook announced plans to build a hyperscale data center in Singapore. The 170,000 square meter facility, which will be Facebook’s first wholly-owned data center in Asia-Pac, is expected to come online in 2022 at the latest. Facebook estimated the cost of the project at US$ 1 billion. Last month, Facebook set 2020 as its target […]
Broadcom posted net revenue of $5.063 billion for its third quarter of fiscal year 2018, ended August 5, 2018,, an increase of 1 percent from $5.014 billion in the previous quarter and an increase of 13 percent from $4,463 million in the same quarter last year. Gross margin was $2,619 million, or 51.7 percent of […]
