Clouds and Carriers

Bharti Airtel introduced a  wholesale, unified platform for global interconnect with other operators. “Airtel Advantage” will offer International Voice, A2P, P2A, P2P SMS, Direct Inward Dialing (DID) and International Toll...

LigaT will deploy  a 400GE-capable network across Portugal using Nokia’s 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7250 Interconnect Router (IXR) systems. The new infrastructure allows LigaT, a regional ISP offering multi-play media services...

Colt Technology Services, headquartered in London, completed its acquisition of Lumen Technologies’ European, Middle Eastern, and African (EMEA) business. Colt paid US$1.8 billion cash for the assets, which included Lumen’s...

Lumen Technologies has expanded its  Network-as-a Service (NaaS)   from 23 data centers to 136 across North America.  Through data center partners, Lumen has extended its NaaS reach to Digital...

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, a new consumption model providing access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity for short...

Amazon plans to launch the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe. The new service will use data centers within the EU that are separate and independent...

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) activated 400G circuits to four of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) national laboratories and user facilities: Argonne National Laboratory, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center,...

Cisco is working with NVIDIA to deliver AI-powered meetings for hybrid workers.  Cisco is launching Room Kit EQX and expanding its Cinematic Meetings capabilities — both powered by NVIDIA’s AI...

Orange Group reported revenues for the third quarter of 2023 were 10,999 million euros, an increase of 1.8%, or 194 million euros, year on year (compared with +2.6% in 2Q...

Alphabet reported quarterly revenue of $77 billion, up 11% over the same period last year. Google Cloud accounted for $8.411 billion, compared to $6.868 billion a year ago. Sundar Pichai,...

BT unveiled its new Global Fabric network for connecting enterprise customers with multiple clouds. BT says Global Fabric represents a generational shift in technology, based on a network-as-a-service (NaaS) technical and commercial model. ...

Orange and Vodafone have completed 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial network sites in a rural area near Bucharest, Romania, based on Open RAN technology.  This technological milestone...

A new service from the European Space Agency (ESA) went live last month allowing anyone to access its Earth observation data. The new Copernicus Data Space service is supported by...