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AT&T expects a ruling on June 12 in the suit lawsuit brought against AT&T and Time Warner by the U.S. Department of Justice. If the court rules in its favor, AT&T is ready to close on the merger. The company anticipates annualized cost synergies of $1.5 billion by the end of the third year after […]
Facebook will build one of its hyperscale data centers in Eagle Mountain, Utah. The 970,000 square foot Eagle Mountain Data Center will be powered by 100% renewable energy. Facebook said the Eagle Moutain project represents an investment of more than $750 million. The data center will use outside air to cool its servers.
The LF Networking Fund (LFN), which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open networking projects, is gaining traction with global telecom service providers. New members include Sprint, KT, KDDI, SK Telecom, Swisscom, and Telecom Italia. Addiiontal members include AT&T, Bell Canada, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Comcast, KT, KDDI, Orange, PCCW Global, Reliance Jio, […]
Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 38.6%, year over year to $18.8 billion during the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Worldwide server shipments increased 20.7% year over year to 2.7 million units in 1Q18. IDC said the growth is driven by a […]
ExteNet Systems, a private developer, owner and operator of distributed networks across the United States, agreed to acquire Hudson Fiber Network (HFN). Financial terms were not disclosed. Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) is a data transport provider which has a significant metro fiber network in the greater New York City area and operates a national wide-area […]
OFS has expanded its AccuTube+ Rollable Ribbon Cable family to include cables with 432, 576 and 864 fiber counts featuring rollable ribbon technology in a ribbon-in-loose-tube cable design. This expanded product line of 100% gel-free cables will offer both single jacket/all-dielectric and light armor constructions. OFS said rollable ribbon fiber optic cables can help users […]
Masergy announced the extension of their Intelligent Service Control with Global Bandwidth on Demand for Managed SD-WAN. The Global Bandwidth on Demand feature is built into Masergy’s Intelligent Service Control (ISC) customer portal enabling customers to instantly ramp up or reduce Managed SD-WAN bandwidth by location. Enterprise IT managers typically use this feature to accommodate […]
AT&T and Google Cloud announced two areas of collaboration. First, business customers will be able to use AT&T NetBond for Cloud to connect in a highly secure manner to Google Cloud Platform. Google’s Partner Interconnect offers organizations private connectivity to GCP and allows data centers geographically distant from a Google Cloud region or point of […]
Semtech announced a PAM4 clock and data recovery (CDR) platform optimized for low power and low-cost PAM4 optical interconnects used in data center and active optical cable (AOC) applications. Semtech’s Tri-Edge is a new CDR platform technology being developed for the PAM4 communication protocol. It builds on the success of Semtech’s ClearEdge NRZ-based CDR platform […]
Acacia Communications and Oclaro are collaborating on a multi-vendor environment of fully interoperable CFP2-DCO modules based on Acacia’s Meru DSP. Specifically, Oclaro plans to launch a new CFP2-DCO module that will feature plug-and-play compatibility with the Acacia CFP2-DCO, providing customers with two proven coherent optics suppliers for the 100/200G CFP2-DCO form factor. CFP2-DCOs integrate the […]
NYU’s Future Reality Lab are using Verizon’s pre-commercial 5G technology at Alley, a co-working space and site of Verizon’s 5G incubator in New York City, to develop ChalkTalk, an open source AR learning tool that renders multimedia objects in 3D. The idea is to use AR on mobile devices to create more effective learning tools […]
Two years after hosting the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) meeting in Busan, Korea that kicked off the 5G standardization process, Samsung Electronics this month hosted another 3GPP meeting to wrap-up the first phase of the effort. Based on this latest meeting in Busan, the 3GPP is expected to make the final announcement of 5G […]
Super Micro Computer is using the new NVIDIA HGX-2 cloud server platform to develop a 2 PetaFLOP “SuperServer” aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. “To help address the rapidly expanding size of AI models that sometimes require weeks to train, Supermicro is developing cloud servers based on the HGX-2 platform that […]
