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NTT successfully demonstrated the first use of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) multiplexing to achieve 100 Gbps wireless transmission. The laboratory tests combined OAM multiplexing with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology and carried the signals a distance of 10m. NTT said a key feature of OAM is that electromagnetic waves can be superposed and separated because phase […]
Google Cloud will acquire Cask Data Inc., a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, that offers a big data platform for enterprises. Financial terms were not disclosed. The open source Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) provides a data ingestion service that simplifies and automates the task of building, running, and managing data pipelines. Cask says […]
Deutsche Telekom invested 5.4 billion euros on networks and new data centers in Germany in the last year, he said. Speaking at Deutsche Telekom’s shareholders’ meeting in Bonn, CEO Tim Höttges said the company is pursuing a strategy of “billions for millions,” seeking to ensure that broadband coverage is built out as quickly and as […]
Citing strength across all its product lines, including InfiniBand and Ethernet, Mellanox Technologies raised its second quarter and full year 2018 outlook. Mellanox currently projects: Quarterly revenues of $260 million to $270 million. Prior guidance provided on April 17, 2018 was quarterly revenues of $255 million to $265 million. Full Year 2018 revenues of $1,050 […]
Tachyum, a start-up based in San Jose, California with offices in Slovakia, unveiled its new processor family – codenamed “Prodigy” – that combines the advantages of CPUs with GP-GPUs, and specialized AI chips in a single universal processor platform. The company says its processor architecture attains ten times the processing power per watt compared to […]
Vesper, a start-up based in Boston, announced $23 million in Series B funding for its MEMS-based piezoelectric sensors. Vesper said its MEMS microphones represent a radical shift from capacitive MEMS microphones. Its piezoelectric design is suited for far-field applications such as microphone arrays used in voice-interface devices. The design is waterproof, dustproof, particle-resistant and shockproof. […]
HOPUS, a Marseille-based provider of IP connectivity services, has deployed the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform to scale network capacity and accelerate provisioning of high-speed transit services. The new regional network deployment will support 100G DWDM transport between the Paris and Amsterdam metropolitan markets and enable efficient delivery of end-to-end internet exchange and IP […]
Verizon announced 4G LTE over CBRS spectrum (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) using its live commercial network in Florida. The deployment uses a combination of Verizon licensed AWS and 700 MHz spectrum aggregated with 50 MHz of CBRS band 48 spectrum. Verizon said it has achieved peak speeds of 790 Mbps using LTE Advanced features including […]
Sprint named three additional cities where it plans to deploy 5G in the first half of 2019. Sprint’s full list of first 5G markets now includes Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix,and Washington, D.C. “Today we have a great LTE network, and with Sprint 5G, we’ll deliver for our […]
Cisco reported third-quarter revenue of $12.5 billion, GAAP net income of $2.7 billion or $0.56 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $3.2 billion or $0.66 per share. Total GAAP gross margin and product gross margin were 62.3% and 61.0%, respectively. Product gross margin decreased compared with 61.7% in the third quarter of fiscal 2017. […]
The FCC voted 52-to-47 in favor of a bill that reverses the FCC’s recent order ending Net Neutrality. The bill now goes to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration. FCC votes 3-2 to end Net Neutrality rules Thursday, December 14, 2017 FCC, Net Neutrality No Comments The FCC voted 3-2 along partisan lines to adopt the “Restoring […]
FiberLight announced a new service providing dedicated connectivity to top cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM, Oracle, Google Cloud and Rackspace. FiberLight Cloud Connect was initially offered in the Washington, D.C. area, and will now be expanded across FiberLights core markets – including Atlanta, Dallas, and Tampa. The service provides a […]
Verizon Communications has designated Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud provider as part of a corporate-wide initiative to increase agility and reduce costs through the use of cloud computing. Verizon is migrating over 1,000 business-critical applications and database backend systems to AWS, several of which also include the migration of production databases […]
