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IEEE announced the publishing and availability of its 802.3cc-2017—Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for Serial 25 Gb/s Ethernet Operation Over Single-Mode Fiber. The new amendment to IEEE 802.3 addresses the growing need for increased Ethernet speeds for enterprise, campus and metro Ethernet speeds exceeding 10 Gb/s, and that can support reaches […]
Pica8 is demonstrating a multivendor 100G switch fabric using the NEC ProgrammableFlow SDN Controller to drive its PICOS network operating system on core and edge switches from Dell EMC, NEC and Edgecore to facilitate open networking. NEC is showing how its SDN ProgrammableFlow Controller can work with Pica8’s PICOS to enable open networking across a […]
Infomart Data Centers confirmed the sale of three of its data centers and its management company to IPI Data Center Partners Management. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal includes Infomart’s data centers in San Jose, California; Hillsboro, Oregon; and Ashburn, Virginia. Combined, the three data centers total 665,000 square feet with 27.2 megawatts of […]
Matillion, a start-up based in the UK, announced a $20 million Series B round of funding for its cloud data integration tools. Matillion’s software enables customers to extract, load and transform data into and on cloud-based data warehouses, quickly and at scale. Versions are avaialable for Amazon Redshift, Snowflake and Google BigQuery. The funding round […]
Telstra has measured downlink performance to a Samsung Galaxy S9 in excess of 1 Gbps. The tests were conducted on the Telstra 4GX service. Telstra’s gigabit-enabled coverage is available in the Sydney and Melbourne CBDs (3km radius), Brisbane and Adelaide CBDs (2.0 km radius), and a number of sites in selected high traffic locations. Gigabit […]
University College London (UCL), in collaboration with Xtera, has demonstrated the transmission of 120 Terabit/s over a single repeatered fibre. The experiment used a hybrid distributed-Raman / EDFA amplifier with a bandwidth of 91 nm. This is an extension of the technology which Xtera currently deploys in its subsea repeaters, with 256QAM and adaptive FEC […]
Ofcom, the official telecoms regulator in the U.K., has commenced an auction to release more airwaves to improve mobile broadband capacity, and help prepare for future 5G services. A total of 190 MHz of spectrum is being sold across two frequency bands: 40 MHz in the 2.3 GHz band, which will be used to increase […]
NTT Communications’ e-shelter business unit has acquired a new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The “Frankfurt 4 Data Center” campus is located in Hattersheim in the west of the city and will feature 5 DC buildings built out in phases, with the first building of 9.7MW IT […]
Dell EMC introduced its enterprise Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) family for SD-WAN. The Dell EMC VEP4600, which is powered by the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor, is a universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE) meant to displace expensive fixed-function access hardware. It provides an open Intel architecture-based platform to support multiple simultaneous virtual network functions (VNF). […]
In what is described as the single largest corporate purchase of solar energy ever in the United States, Microsoft agreed to purchase 315 MW of energy from Pleinmont I and II, two new solar projects in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Microsoft is aiming to power 60% of its operations with renewable energy by 2020. “Today, […]
Averon, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $13.3 million in series A funding for its work in mobile identity verification. Averon’s solution leverages mobile carrier data signaling and hardware already in every smartphone combined with Averon’s proprietary blockchain technology to positively and instantly authenticate mobile users. The mobile authentication works seamlessly whether users are […]
CenturyLink (including Level 3), AT&T, Verizon (including XO), Windstream and Frontier have gained a position on the 2017 U.S. Incumbent Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD, according to Vertical Systems Group’s latest research. The Incumbent Carrier LEADERBOARD, which ranks incumbents in order based on U.S. retail Ethernet port share for this segment, is an industry benchmark for measuring […]
ETSI and OPNFV announced plans to co-locate their next community testing events in Sophia Antipolis, France. The third ETSI NFV PlugtestsTM event will be held between 29 May and 8 June 2018, and the OPNFV Fraser Plugfest will be held from 4 to 8 June. “Effective interoperability is the goal of any standards activity, and […]
