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GÉANT, which operates the backbone network that interconnects the national research and education networks in Europe, has selected the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform and Coriant Transcend Chorus transport network management solution to scale its European backbone network. Coriant’s DCI solution enables GÉANT to boost network capacity across core PoP sites, including London, Amsterdam, […]
Vodafone UK confirmed plans to launch a 5G trial network in seven cities across the UK starting between October and December this year. Specifically, Vodafone engineers are already laying the groundwork for 5G at more than 40 sites in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester. The 5G rollout will be part of Vodafone’s […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching a cloud-based sandbox that allows clients to explore memory-driven computing applications and deliver proof-of-concepts at scale. HPE Labs has been a pioneer of Memory-Driven Computing — a new computing architecture that puts memory, not processing, at the center of the computing platform — through its research project known as The […]
-Samsung Electronics launched the industry’s highest capacity NVMe solid state drive (SSD) based on Next-generation Small Form Factor – an eight-terabyte (TB) NF1 SSD. The new 8TB NVMe NF1 SSD has been optimized for data-intensive analytics and virtualization applications in next-generation data centers and enterprise server systems. “By introducing the first NF1 NVMe SSD, Samsung […]
Instagram now has over 1 billion users, a major milestone for the service, which was launched in 2010. Instagram also introduced IGTV, a new app for long-form, vertical video from Instagram creators. Videos can be up to one hour in length and will be sorted by channels. The service will be rolled out gradually over […]
Microsoft Azure was impacted by multiple disruptions and failures on 20-June-2018. Azure Data Factory, Data Factory V2, Data Movement, SSIS Integration Runtime, and Data Movement & Dispatch experienced errors, including but not limited to pipeline execution errors, in regions across North America, North Europe, West Europe, the UK, Brazil, Australia, Southeast Asia, and eastern Japan. […]
Minorisa de Sistemas Informáticos y de Gestión, an Internet Service Provider based in Spain, has migrated its infrastructure and adopted 6WIND’s vRouters as core routers for its network. After running out of throughput capacity for its legacy hardware routers, Minorisa evaluated 6WIND’s 40G Turbo Router software appliances replaced legacy Cisco hardware routers that ran out […]
SES Networks announced a deal with the Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to deliver enhanced mobile broadband and Internet services to residents across the vast French Polynesian territory. Under the new agreement, OPT will access the NSS-9 satellite’s wide C-band coverage to reach the sprawling Polynesian archipelago of 118 islands in […]
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a series of reference designs backed by ONF’s operator leadership, which includes AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, NTT Group, and Turk Telekom. The initial set of open source Reference Designs, which target edge and access clouds infrastructure, essentially are “blueprints” for how to put common modular […]
Mellanox Technologies will supply an InfiniBand solution to accelerate the world’s top Arm-based supercomputer to be deployed in Sandia National Laboratory in the second half of 2018. The Astra supercomputer will include nearly 2600 nodes, and will leverage InfiniBand In-Network Computing acceleration engines. Astra is the first system in a series of the Vanguard program […]
Colt has connected 13 major cities in North America, including New York, San Francisco and Chicago, to its dense Asian and European metro networks, which is made up of more than 870 data centers and 26,000 fiber-connected buildings. Colt services available in the US include; enterprise bandwidth services up to 100Gbps, delivered over entire wavelengths […]
Facebook has decided to open source a binary optimization and layout tool (BOLT) that optimizes the placement of instructions in memory, thereby reducing CPU execution time by 2 percent to 15 percent. BOLT rearranges code inside functions based on their execution profile. Facebook said the tool was proven to be very efficient with its highly […]
DE-CIX, the world’s leading internet exchange operator, has deployed the Infinera Cloud Xpress 2 to address soaring demand for internet exchange services in rapidly growing markets including New York City, Frankfurt and Dallas. DE-CIX serves over 1,300 carriers, internet service providers and content networks from more than 100 countries, including all leading international players in […]
