FCC attracts $21.8 billion in bids for mid-band spectrum
The FCC announced the conclusion of bidding in the first phase of Auction 110 for licenses in the 3.45 to 3.55 GHz band. Winning…
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Bloomberg: Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List
China has formed a secretive Information Technology Application Innovation Working Committee with the goal of replacing foreign technology suppliers and boosting local competitors, according…
Lumentum introduces multi-junction VCSEL arrays
Lumentum introduced high-performance 1D and 2D addressable arrays for advanced automotive, consumer, and industrial LiDAR and 3D sensing applications. VCSEL arrays have become the…
Keysight and Credo collaborate on 800 GigE testing
Keysight Technologies has collaborated with Credo to enable data center operators and the respective supply chain to validate the readiness of data center equipment…
PacketFabric offers hourly billing for 100G data center interconnection
PacketFabric is now offering hourly billing for data center interconnect (DCI) backbone virtual circuits (VCs), at speeds up to 100Gbps across nearly 200 global…
Zayo Expands in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne
Zayo announced an expansion of network infrastructure in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Expansion plans include adding more than 200 route miles throughout Indiana…
American Tower to buy CoreSite for $10B
American Tower agreed to acquire CoreSite for $170.00 per share in cash, an enterprise value of $10.1 billion when including the assumption and/or repayment…
KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners to acquire CyrusOne for $15B
KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Global Infrastructure Partners agreed to acquire CyrusOne for $90.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at…
Xilinx intros FPGA data center accelerator card for HPC
Xilinx introduced a data center accelerator card and a new standards-based, API-driven clustering solution for deploying FPGAs at massive scale for high performance computing…
Astera Labs’ module enables copper-based Smart Electrical Cables at up to 800 GbE
Astera Labs introduced its new Taurus Smart Cable Module portfolio to overcome performance bottlenecks in data center Switch-to-Switch and Switch-to-Server interconnects running up to…
Megaport offers Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN
Megaport is now offering the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform on Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) for enabling branch-to-cloud connectivity via Megaport’s global SDN. Aruba EdgeConnect…
Netography raises $45M for cloud-native network detection and response
Netography, a start-up based in Annapolis, Maryland, raised $45 million in Series A funding for its SAAS network security offering. Netography’s cloud-native SaaS NDR…
Santec acquires JGR Optics and OptoTest for optical test
Japan-based Santec Corporation has acquired JGR Optics Inc. (Headquarters: Ottawa, Canada), and OptoTest Corp. (Headquarters: Camarillo, CA). Both companies will continue to operate under…