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Alibaba has acquired Hangzhou Zhongtian Microsystem Co. (C-SKY Microsystems, a leading developer of embedded CPUs, for an undisclosed sum. C-SKY, which was founded in 2001 and is based in Hangzhou’s Hi-Tech Zone, offers a series of 32-bit “C-SKY” embedded CPU cores based on independent intellectual property rights. The chips are widely used in Internet of […]
Silicon Labs has acquired Sigma Designs’ Z-Wave business, including a team of approximately 100 employees, for $240 million in an all-cash transaction. Z-Wave mesh networking technology based on the open, internationally recognized ITU standard (G.9959).0 More than 2,400 certified, interoperable Z-Wave devices are available from the thriving Z-Wave Alliance of more than 700 manufacturers and […]
Comcast and Charter announce a 50/50 operating platform partnership focused on the development and design of backend systems that support Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile and Charter’s Spectrum Mobile service. The partnership will be governed by a four-person board of directors, with two directors representing each of Comcast and Charter. The partnership will be based in Philadelphia […]
Optelian introduces a 100G hardened (OSP compliant) muxponder designed for 5G upgrades, remote business services access and fiber deep architectures. Optelian said its new MPX-9103 100G muxponder does not require a temperature controlled shelter or facility. The device can aggregate up to ten 10G client side circuits onto a 100G line side interface. The 1 […]
Intel is investing in a massive water recycling facility at its plant in Hillsboro, Oregon as part of a corporate goal to return 100 percent of water used in its global manufacturing to communities and watersheds for local use by 2025. When complete, the huge water recycling plant in Hillsboro, will be able to recycle […]
The 27th annual RSA Conference, held last week in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, attracted over 42,000 attendees. “The goal of RSA Conference is to bring the best content the cybersecurity industry has to offer across numerous platforms,” said Linda Gray Martin, Director & General Manager of RSA Conference. “We succeeded, in a week filled with […]
ADTRAN announced the appointment of John Neville as senior vice president of sales, replacing Charles Marsh who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Neville joined ADTRAN as head of business development, and his responsibilities expanded to include European and Asian sales organizations. In addition to serving in executive management at Ericsson, Neville has […]
AT&T announced the launch of its 5G Evolution network service in 117 new markets, bringing its total to 141 launches so far. AT&T’s 5G Evolution offers wireless speeds up to 400 Mbps, which two times faster than standard LTE in many major markets, including in Atlanta, Chicago, Memphis, Nashville, San Diego and others. The company […]
Megaport’s global Software Defined Network (SDN) is now available via RagingWire’s Cloud Connect portfolio of solution partners. Megaport, a leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, operates a global SDN with over 200 data center Points of Presence (PoPs), enabling on-demand, elastic interconnection to clouds, networks, enterprises, and managed services. RagingWire’s data center customers will […]
China’s Ministry of Commerce is expressing market consolidation concerns over Qualcomm’s pending acquisition of NXP Semiconductor and its operations in China. The Ministry will require Qualcomm to resubmit its antitrust application with additional information. NXP Semiconductors N.V., which headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands, employs approximately 45,000 people in more than 35 countries and is known for […]
Chaos Computer Club, which calls itself Europe’s largest hacker organization, utilized the ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect to provide Europe’s largest conference of digital experts with ultra-fast broadband. The temporary network, based on German operator GasLINE’s fiber infrastructure, gave around 12,000 participants at the annual Chaos Communication Congress access to high-capacity internet connectivity. Operating at 16QAM […]
Pivotal Software, a division of Dell that offers a cloud-native platform for enterprises that delivers “any app to every major private and public cloud”, priced its initial public offering of 37,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $15.00 per share. Pivotal is offering 33,117,000 shares of its […]
Empirix has been awarded a 3-year contract valued at US$19 million. The unnamed, tier 1 North American mobile operator selected Empirix to improve the quality of performance for their mobile voice, VoWiFi and VoLTE networks, to score and increase customer experience satisfaction, and reduce OpEx related to MTTR. Empirix provides an end-to-end view of voice […]
