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Intelsat and SES last week both agreed to back a proposal to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the seeks to protect satellite services in the 3700-4200 MHz C-band downlink spectrum while opening a specified portion of that spectrum for terrestrial mobile use. The companies said their joint proposal sets a commercial and technical framework […]
Nokia and Tele2 IoT have signed a five-year agreement to enable the delivery of IoT services to Tele2 enterprise customers. Specifically, Tele2 has selected Nokia’s worldwide IoT network grid (WING) to enable the delivery of IoT services to its enterprise customers. Nokia WING is a ‘one-stop-shop’ IoT managed service that includes a pre-integrated global IoT […]
Samsung Electronics announced mass production of t the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) to date – the 30.72 terabyte (TB). The new PM1643 drive uses Samsung’s latest V-NAND technology with 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) chips. It offers twice the capacity and performance of the previous 15.36TB high-capacity lineup introduced […]
Deutsche Telekom, in collaboration with infrastructure partner Crown Castle, and vRAN solution vendor Altiostar, is building an ultra-low latency mobile testbed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh as part of the Open Edge Computing Initiative. “The Living Edge Lab testbed is a major technology milestone towards use-case centric Edge Computing and will provide application […]
Elliott Advisors (UK), which holds an approximate 7.2% economic interest in NXP Semiconductors, is insisting that the take-out value for Qualcomm to acquire NXP should be higher than $135 per NXP share. Elliot published a presentation in which it argues: NXP is currently one of the most attractive companies in the semiconductor sector NXP has a […]
Preamble: On January 30, 2018, Kenyan authorities ordered the nation’s three leading television stations off the air for their attempts to cover the alternate and unsanctioned “inauguration” of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims to have prevailed in last year’s disputed election against President Uhuru Kenyatta. The High Court of Kenya has ordered the government […]
AT&T has begun deploying G.fast to apartments and condominiums in Boston. The first Gfast installation in Boston occurred at the Meriel Marina Bay apartment complex. AT&T will offer Internet connections capable of 500 Mbps peak downlinks. Boston is the second metro where AT&T has launched Gfast property outside of its traditional 21-state home internet service […]
Nokia will undertake a strategic review of its Digital Health business, whose products include hybrid smart watches, scales and digital health devices for consumers and enterprise partners. The unit is part of Nokia Technologies. The company said the review may or may not result in any transaction or other changes.
For a second time, the Board of Directors of Qualcomm formally turned down Broadcom’s $82 per share “best and final” acquisition offer saying the bid “materially undervalues Qualcomm and has an unacceptably high level of risk, and therefore is not in the best interests of Qualcomm stockholders.” This second rejection comes after members of Qualcomm’s […]
Juniper Networks introduced a new line of Ethernet switches designed for the new era of multicloud networking, where the assumption that distributed enterprises will access resources from multiple data centers is a reality. The rollout includes new switches for the enterprise data center, campus, and branch, as well as a new cloud-based management platform called […]
Intel introduced its first SSD designed for data center applications. The Intel P4510 Series drives uses 64-layer TLC Intel 3D NAND. The density enables up to four times more terabytes per server and delivers up to 10 times better random read latency at 99.99 percent quality of service than previous generations. Intel says its drive […]
Arista reported Q4 2017 revenue of $467.9 million, an increase of 6.9% compared to the third quarter of 2017, and an increase of 42.7% from the fourth quarter of 2016. GAAP gross margin of 65.7%. Non-GAAP net income of $137.3 million, or $1.71 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $77.5 million, or […]
Telefónica is going into the business of original content development and distribution for Latin America. The carrier’s upcoming Movistar+ Series will launch in more than 13 countries in 2018 with original content as its differentiating element. The new channel will be available to Movistar clients in Chile, Colombia, and Peru on February 15, and will […]
