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Nokia’s Future X architecture for 5G, which the company is outlining this week and plans to showcase at next month’s Mobile World Congress, will combine high-capacity 5G New Radio access, core networking capabilities, and SDN controlled ‘Anyhaul’ transport. The new architecture promises up to three times more data capacity per cell site and 30% lower […]
Red Hat agreed to acquire CoreOS, a developer of Kubernetes and container-native solutions, for $250 million. CoreOS, which was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, offers a commercial Kubernetes platform that let’s customer build “Google-style” where workloads and applications placed in containers can be moved rapidly across clouds. CoreOS Tectonic is an […]
Juniper Networks reported net revenues of $1,239.5 million for Q4 2017, a decrease of 11% year-over-year and 1% sequentially, and also announced lowered financial expectations for Q1 2018 due to ongoing deployment delays as large cloud customers continue their architectural transition. Juniper said it remains confident in its competitive position and strong relationship with these […]
A10 Networks is postponing its quarterly earnings announcement, originally scheduled for Feb. 8, 2018, due to an internal investigation concerning a violation of its insider trading policy by a mid-level employee within its finance department. The company said its investigation did not identify matters that require material adjustments to be made, however, attention is now […]
WorldStream, a leading Internet Service Provider in the Netherlands, has deployed the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform to enhance the resiliency of its backbone network and scale transmission capacity to 100G per wavelength. WorldStream offers a wide variety of ISP and data center hosting services, as well as global connectivity.
Internap, which provides high-performance internet infrastructure including colocation, managed services and hosting, cloud and high-performance network services, agreed to acquire SingleHop, private company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois for $132 million in cash. SingleHop is a managed hosting and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider offering automated and on-demand IT infrastructure. “The INAP turnaround strategy includes […]
Nokia unveiled its ReefShark 5G chipsets for radio frequency (RF) units such as the radio used in antennas. The chipsets, which were developed in-house, significantly improve radio performance resulting in halving the size of massive MIMO antennas. Nokia says its ReefShark chipsets also reduce power consumption in baseband units by 64%, compared to current technology. […]
Zayo agreed to acquire Neutral Path Communications, a long haul infrastructure provider operating a fiber network in the Midwest. The transaction will add 452 owned plus additional leased route miles to Zayo’s extensive North American network, including a unique, high-count fiber route from Minneapolis to Omaha. The assets are highly complementary to Zayo’s Midwestern long […]
T-Mobile US announced a commitment to cover 100% of its energy usage by 2021 with renewable electricity. The company has joined RE100, a global initiative uniting businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity. To reach this goal, T-Mobile will count every unit of electricity consumed by its network, offices and stores and then source the equivalent […]
Aquantia, which is known for its multi-gig Ethernet over copper PHY technologies, introduced an automotive networking portfolio and announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to provide Multi-Gig networking support for the NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier and DRIVE Pegasus platforms. The market for automotive Ethernet could be many times larger than the data center, enterprise and access segments […]
Expect to see initial shipments of 400 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches this year and look for exponential growth ahead. The 400 GbE technology will drive the majority of data center Ethernet switch bandwidth by 2022, according to a newly published Data Center Switch Long-Range Forecast Report from Crehan Research Inc. “Beginning with high-density 100GbE systems, […]
The Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (SFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) Group released an updated specification for the SFP-DD pluggable interface. An initial version was released in September 2017. This update (version 1.1) reflects enhancements to the mechanicals and drawings of the high-speed, high-density SFP-DD electrical interface comprising a module and cage/connector system targeting […]
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