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Amazon Web Services announced commercial availability of T3 instances, the next generation of burstable general-purpose instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), providing up to 30% improved price performance than previous generation T2 instances. The new T3 instances are designed for applications with variable CPU usage that experience occasional spikes in demand – such […]
Nokia plans to set a licensing rate of EUR 3 for mobile phones which implement the 5G New Radio standard. Nokia holds a significant portfolio of standard-essential patents (SEPs) for 5G. The company has committed to license on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, in line with the applicable intellectual property rights policies of relevant […]
Slack, the San Francisco-based start-up offering collaboration apps and services, announced $427 million in a series H funding round. The company has previously raised $827 million in its previous funding rounds. The company says the new level of investment reflects a post-money valuation of more than $7.1 billion. Slack claims more than 8 million Daily […]
Pure Storage has acquired StorReduce, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California that offers a cloud-first software-defined storage solution for managing large scale unstructured data. StorReduce’s cloud-optimized technology reduces storage and bandwidth costs, enabling flash plus cloud solutions across a variety of use cases, including data tiering, migration, and protection. Pure Storage said the acquisition adds […]
Pure Storage reported revenue of $308.9 million for its second quarter ended July 31, 2018, up 37% Y/Y, exceeding the high end of its previously issued guidance. Gross margin was 66.7% GAAP; 68.0% non-GAAP, “Pure has delivered another exceptional quarter, with all measures exceeding our Q2 guidance ranges,” said Charles Giancarlo, CEO, Pure Storage. “Our […]
A number of service providers, including CBCcom, PCCW Global, Sparkle and Tata Communications, together with technology vendors Clear Blockchain Technologies and Cataworx, are building a Proof of Concept (PoC) to show how telcos can introduce next-generation services thanks to innovations in blockchain technology, artificial intelligence and intent-based customer interfaces. The PoC uses MEF LSO Cantata […]
CENX announced a contract to provide its hyper-scale service assurance platform to a globally recognized European Tier 1 operator. CENX’s hyper-scale service assurance platform enables closed-loop assurance automation across virtual and hybrid networks. Under the contract, CENX will support the launch of new digital services and business models across fixed, wireless and data center infrastructure. […]
Twenty-two states are petitioning a U.S. appeals court to reinstate net neutrality rules that were recently overturned by the FCC under Ajit Pai. Additional petitioners include the District of Columbia, Mozilla Corp., Public Knowledge, Open Technology Institute at New America, National Hispanic Media Coalition, NTCH, Benton Foundation, Free Press, Coalition for Internet Openness, Etsy, and […]
Ericsson won a two-year network managed services contract extension from MBNL, the network-sharing joint venture between UK mobile operators Three and EE. Ericsson has been MBNL’s managed services provider since 2009. The new extension covers Design, Plan and Deploy projects from June 2018 until May 2020. Pat Coxen, Managing Director at MBNL, says: “The agreement […]
China Telecom is the last of the Big 3 Chinese carriers to issue its mid-year report (see below), revealing stronger than expected financials and operational metrics. Later this week, Alibaba’s mid-year report is due, hopefully providing equally deep insight into its cloud business and the larger market for data center infrastructure in China. Some key […]
China Telecom reported robust financial results and operational metrics for the first half of 2018, with overall operating revenues of RMB193.0 billion, of which, service revenues amounted to RMB177.6 billion, representing an increase of 7.0% over the same period last year. EBITDA amounted to RMB55.9 billion and EBITDA margin was 31.5%. Net profit amounted to […]
The Akraino Edge Stack project, which promises new levels of flexibility to scale edge cloud services quickly, has moved from formation into execution as a project hosted by The Linux Foundation. The project originated inside AT&T. New members of the Akraino project include Arm, AT&T, Dell EMC, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, inwinSTACK, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Qualcomm, […]
Cumulus Networks announced support for switching platforms powered by the new Broadcom Trident 3 (TD3) ASIC. Key capabilities: Simplified EVPN operations: built-in simplicity on different technological layers, thus reducing human errors and downtime. Scale and robustness in data and control plane: The EVPN solution on Trident 3 supports VXLAN routing/tunneling in a single pass at […]
