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The Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange (BCIX), Berlin’s leading Internet Exchange Point, has selected the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform to scale its distributed peering infrastructure. BCIX will use the Coriant platform to connect major data centers across Berlin. High-capacity neutral exchange services will include 100G Data Center Interconnect (DCI). “The German economy continues to […]
Telstra reported flat FY18 revenue of AU$26 billion, with EBITDA declining by 5.2 percent to AU$10.1 billion. Net profit was AU$3.5 billion, down by 9 percent from AU$3.9 billion in FY17. The company attributed its declining profit to the National Broadband Network (nbn) and mobile competition. Telstra CEO Andrew Penn said the results showed strong […]
NVIDIA reported revenue of $3.12 billion for its second quarter ended July 29, 2018, up 40 percent from $2.23 billion a year earlier, and down 3 percent from $3.21 billion in the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $1.76, up 91 percent from $0.92 a year ago and down 11 […]
Intel has acquired Vertex.AI, a start-up based in Seattle, for its work in deep learning. Financial terms were not disclosed. Vertex.AI has contributed to the PlaidML deep learning open source project, which Intel plans to transition to the Apache 2.0 license. Vertex.AI is now part of Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Products Group.
Intel’s Data Center Innovation Summit this week in Silicon Valley, which coincided with the annual Flash Memory Summit across the street at the Santa Clara Convention Center, was the company’s big event for resetting expectations about its strategic direction inside the data center. Everyone knows that big data is the new hot commodity of our […]
For months, many market watchers have described Intel as complacent as we’ve seen the surge in new products from companies such as ARM, NVIDIA and Xilinx. This week, Intel is hitting back. At an all-day media and analyst event at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Intel executives laid out their plans for extending the […]
Cisco reported revenue of $12.8 billion for its fourth quarter of FY 18, up 6% year-over-year — its strongest sales growth in a while. Revenue growth in the 5% to 7% range is also forecast for this quarter (1Q FY 19) GAAP net income was $3.8 billion or $0.81 per share, and non-GAAP net income […]
Telstra has turned on 5G in selected areas on the Gold Coast. The pilot sites use Telstra’s licensed 3.4GHz spectrum and are connected to its new modernised production core network. Telstra aims to have 200 5G-capable sites live around the country by the end of 2018. In a blog post, Channa Seneviratne, Executive Director, Network […]
F5 Networks introduced a VNF Manager as part of a prepacked software-defined networking solution based on its BIG-IP capabilities. The company said its goal is to make VNFs simple to purchase, deploy, manage, and upgrade in a “pay as you grow” model with subscription and perpetual licensing options. To help maximize utilization, resources can be […]
A major Japanese mobile carrier has selected the A10 Thunder Convergent Firewall (CFW) Gi/SGi firewall solution for a 5G pilot network, to complement the massive capacity demands of their existing mobile network and help lay the foundation for the mobile carrier’s 5G production network, expected to become commercially available beginning in 2020. Financial terms were […]
SK Telecom is running artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration boards powered Xilinx FPGAs in its data center. The Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs are now running SKT’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) application to accelerate NUGU, its voice-activated assistant. The Xilinx FPGA add-in cards are installed in existing CPU-only servers. The company reports up to 5X higher performance […]
IX-Denver has expanded its Denver area neutral internet exchange to EdgeConneX’s Edge Data Center Campus. IX-Denver is operated by IX-West, a registered Colorado nonprofit organization, now has over 30 unique ASN’s or networks connected, making it the largest carrier and facility neutral interconnection platform in the state of Colorado. “On the heels of our Denver Edge […]
T-Mobile U.S. announced its latest “un-carrier” move — the revamping of its customer service. T-Mobile’s “Team of Experts” approach aims to re-invent customer service by relying less on automation and more on trained representatives dedicated to solving customer complaints the first time. The program promises to eliminate the automated phone menu and IVR (Interactive Voice […]
