SFP-DD MSA issues two specs
The Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (SFP-DD) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) Group has released updated 5.0 hardware specifications and drawings for the SFP-DD, SFP-DD112,…
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FCC announces over $700M in RDOF funding in 26 States
The FCC is ready to authorize $709,060,159 in its fourth round of funding for new broadband deployments through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. …
Biden signs Secure Equipment Act
President Biden signed into law the “Secure Equipment Act of 2021,” which requires the Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules clarifying that it will…
2021 OCP Global Summit – the next 10 years
This year is the tenth anniversary of the Open Compute Project, an organization that has advanced the cause of “vanity free” infrastructure for cloud…
Meta’s Minipack2 is powered by Broadcom’s Tomahawk 4 silicon
Broadcom confirmed that Meta is now deploying the 25.6 Tbps StrataXGS Tomahawk 4 switch in its data center network fabric. The Tomahawk4 is now…
Broadcom samples 100G/lane Optical PAM-4 DSP PHYs
Broadcom announced its 100G/lane optical PAM-4 DSP PHY families with integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and laser driver, the Jesko BCM8741x and Gemera BCM8781x, optimized…
Inspur and Samsung build open storage solution for OCP
Inspur Information, which ranks among the world’s top 3 server manufacturers, and Samsung announced a Poseidon V2 E3.x reference system for the Open Compute…
Windstream Wholesale cites progress with 400G
Windstream Wholesale is expanding its 400 Gigabit wave offerings to meet rapidly growing customer demand for high-bandwidth solutions. The carrier cited several milestones: Windstream…
LINX installs Nokia’s 7750s routers with 400GE around London
LINX, the UK’s leading interconnection and peering community, will install Nokia’s 400GE IP edge routing platforms to connect its 950+ membership. The installation includes…
Rockley Photonics is working with Caltech on health monitoring
Rockley Photonics has kicked off a research collaboration with Caltech’s Sensing to Intelligence (S2I) Center that will focus on the development of next-generation solutions…
Telia deploys Nokia’s 5G SA core first in Finland
Telia has deployed Nokia’s 5G Standalone (SA) Core network in Finland enabling advanced 5G services like slicing. Nokia is also in the process of…
Lockheed Martin and Keysight test 5G.MIL for aerospace/defense
Lockheed Martin and Keysight Technologies are actively collaborating on a 5G.MIL testbed that Lockheed Martin teams will use to advance 5G capabilities for multiple…
Backblaze prices IPO
Backblaze, which offers a storage cloud platform, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 6,250,000 shares of its Class A common stock…