AT&T Buys 39 GHz and 28 GHz Licenses for $1.6 Billion

AT&T agreed to acquire Straight Path Communications, which holds a nationwide portfolio of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum, including 39 GHz and 28 GHz licenses. Specifically, AT&T will acquire 735 mmWave licenses in the 39 GHz band and 133 licenses in the 28 GHz band. These licenses cover the entire United States, including all of the top 40 markets. The deal was valued at $1.6 billion, which includes liabilities and amounts to be remitted...

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Megaport Launches Exchange Marketplace

Megaport, which provides SDN-based Elastic Interconnect Services, announced the launch of Megaport Exchange, a marketplace hosted on the Megaport Portal . The service is intended to function as a data centre and service provider neutral, self-serve marketplace enabling enterprises to access business critical services on demand. Key features: Neutral, inclusive marketplace: Megaport is data centre agnostic, meaning that customers can access Megaport...

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Australia's nbn Connects 2m Broadband Customers

Australia's nbn, which is building a national broadband network, announced that subscribers are being signed up to its network at an accelerated rate, with two million homes and businesses now connected and more than 4.5 million premises able to order a retail service on the nbn network. The company stated that retailers are connecting more than 28,000 end users to high speed Internet services on the nbn each week, compared with 12,000 per week...

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Zayo provides multiple 100G wavelengths for U.S. colocation provider

Zayo Group announced that it has been selected by a major colocation provider for a wavelength solution to connect facilities in the U.S., specifically a 100 Gbit/s wavelength solution linking data centres that will serve as the company's backbone. Zayo stated that the solution will leverage its existing fibre infrastructure, including the recently acquired network of Electric Lightwave. The solution being delivered to the colocation provider...

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Microsemi integrates Athena Cryptographic Processor into FPGAs

Microsemi and The Athena Group, a supplier of security, cryptography, anti-tamper and signal processing IP cores, announced that Athena's TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor has been integrated into Microsemi's recently introduced PolarFire FPGA 'S class' family. Athena's TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor technology is designed to address cybersecurity requirements for a range of industries via support for the most commonly used cryptographic...

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ZTE Unveils Elastic SD-WAN

ZTE announced at the Open Networking Summit (ONS) the introduction of its elastic software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution, designed to allow enterprise customers to make more effective use of their network and data centre resources by providing an end-to-end (E2E) ICT solution. Integrating SDN and NFV technology, ZTE's Elastic SD-WAN is designed to enable users to implement the entire networking and service delivery process, including...

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China Telco Data and Market Update - Part 2

Preamble - Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu dominate China's Internet According to a Wikipedia analysis of the world's largest Internet companies based on 2015 revenue and 2013 capitalisation, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu ranked 4th, 5th and 6th, respectively, after Amazon, Google and Facebook. Their collective capitalisations stated in the review added to about the same as No. 2 Google, although their collective revenue was only just over half of Google's...

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Japan's EneCom selects Nokia for 100G

Nokia announced it has been selected to deploy a 100 Gbit/s network in the Chogoku area of Japan for Energia Communications (EneCom), the main utility and telecommunications company in the area. With the deployment of an advanced optical transport system integrated with 100/200 Gbit/s coherent technology, the Nokia solution is designed to transform EneCom's transport network and enable more flexible and reliable services. The network is being...

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Huawei introduces CloudEngine modules for Ansible automation framework

Huawei announced the release of CloudEngine switch networking modules, core components of its CloudFabric data centre network solution, for Ansible, an agentless open source IT automation framework. Huawei's CloudEngine networking modules can be deployed in production environments to help provide more secure, efficient and reliable automated network operation and maintenance (O&M). Huawei noted that as enterprises focus on adopting a devops...

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