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Etisalat UAE has hosted a Nokia Bell Lab’s PON proof of concept (PoC) demonstration that achieved speeds up to 100 Gbps on a single wavelength — four times faster than the most advanced 25G PON implementations today. Nokia leverages digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to achieve 100 Gbps on a single wavelength. Nokia believes 100G […]
Scientists from the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have presented a new algorithm that successfully combines amplitude control feedback and Zeeman terms to overcome inherent limits of a Coherent Ising Machine (CIM). (The Ising model is a mathematical abstraction of magnetic systems composed of competitively interacting […]
Samsung Electronics is nearing production of 16-gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM built using the industry’s first 12-nanometer (nm)-class process technology. Product evaluation has been completed ensuring compatibility with AMD. Samsung said the development was made possible through the use of a new high-κ material that increases cell capacitance, and proprietary design technology that improves critical circuit […]
Intel celebrated first light from a new extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system at its Fab 34 site in Leixlip, Ireland. The EUV scanner, which was supplied by ASML, generated its 13.5-nanometer wavelength light for the first time. The activation represents the first use of a high volume EUV scanner in Europe. Intel said the milestone ushers […]
Digital Realty appointed Andrew P. Power as its Chief Executive Officer, replacing William Stein who has departed from his role as CEO and resigned from the Board of Directors. Power has served as President of Digital Realty since November 2021 and as the Company’s CFO since 2015, with responsibility for global portfolio operations, technology development and […]
AT&T and BlackRock Alternatives have formed a joint venture to deliver fiber access outside of AT&T’s traditional 21-state wireline service footprint. The newly formed joint venture — Gigapower, LLC — will deliver fiber services to internet service providers (ISPs) and other businesses using a commercial open access platform. The Gigapower fiber deployment will be incremental to […]
SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites in the first phase of its upgraded network. SpaceX said its new FCC license allows it to deploy satellites to new orbits that will add even more capacity to the network. The satellites were carried to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]
Nokia announced an extension of its patent license agreement with Huawei. The terms of the agreement remain confidential between the parties. https://www.nokia.com
The advent of 5G is driving deep changes in the way that telcos deploy and manage their networks. Telco Cloud infrastructure must adopt a distributed, multi-cloud architecture. It must also be ready to leverage public cloud capabilities to benefit from new business opportunities. Here are the insider views of Ram Venketaramani, Senior Director, Edge Solutions, […]
Singtel, in partnership with Indonesia’s largest telco Telkom and Indonesian energy company Medco Power, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new hyperscale data centre located in Kabil Industrial Estate along Batam’s eastern seaboard. This is Singtel’s first data centre project in Indonesia. The data centre campus will be developed in three phases on an 8-hectare site […]
by Chris Janson, Product Marketing Manager, Optical Networking As we ring in the new year, the transformation of business digitalization continues. We see enterprises increasingly dependent upon networks of highly connected devices and systems to control everything from customer transactions to just-in-time manufacturing. About a year ago, IDC outlined its predictions for 2022 digital transformation. […]
Huawei and Orange achieved a new world record optical transmission of 157 Tbps over a 120 km fiber on the Orange network in South West France. In June 2022, Huawei released the industry’s first ultra-broadband Super C + Super L solution able to provide 12 THz of spectrum () over a fiber using C band […]
Oracle opened its 41st global region and fourth in the U.S. in Chicago, Illinois. The new Chicago region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave, OCI Data Science, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Analytics. Oracle said its new facility has been designed to enable high availability, […]
