NTT Com extends Multi-Cloud Connect to Oracle Cloud

NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced the extension of the Multi-Cloud Connect solution to Oracle Cloud to help multinational customers leverage the performance and cost benefits offered by the cloud while leveraging its secure, high performance MPLS network.Under the agreement, Multi-Cloud Connect will connect directly to Oracle Cloud's platform via Oracle Network Cloud Services – FastConnect, enabling private connectivity to its portfolio and...

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Telecom, M2M and IoT are Showcased at Brooklyn 5G Summit

At the annual Brooklyn 5G Summit in New York University's Tandon School of Engineering, jointly organised by NYU Wireless and Nokia, attendees assessed how close the industry is to deploying commercial 5G products and services and showcased the latest developments and research in the areas of telecommunications, M2M communication and the Internet of Things (IoT).The event featured executives from companies and organisations including Nokia, Verizon,...

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Construction Update on SACS Angola-Brazil Cable System

Angola Cables, an Angolan telecoms wholesale operator, has announced the completion of the marine survey for the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) and the commencement of cable loading on the Angolan side of SACS cable, which will interconnect with the MONET cable system linking the U.S. and Brazil and the West Africa Cable System (WACS).The SACS subsea system is a 40 Tbit/s, 6,165 km cable with four fibre pairs, with each fibre pair capable of...

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Ericsson unveils virtualised video processing platform with MediaFirst controller

Ericsson has announced the launch of a platform that provides the foundation for all-IP and cloud native delivery models with the new MediaFirst Management Controller and MediaFirst Encoding Live 8.1.Ericsson's fully virtualised processing solution, unveiled at NAB 2017, is designed to enable operators to address consumer demand for new services in areas such as UHD TV, virtual and augmented reality, as well as providing support for new revenue opportunities through dynamic ad insertion.Able to operate on any platform, including pure software,...

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KPN unit NL-ix establishes PoP at EdgeConneX Amsterdam

EdgeConneX, a specialist provider of data centre solutions at the edge of the network, has announced a new partnership with Netherlands-based NL-ix, a KPN company that interconnects over 100 carrier neutral data centres in 15 European countries, under which NL-ix has established a new point of presence (PoP) at its Edge Data Center (EDC) facility in Amsterdam.With the deployment, NL-ix customers have access to local, regional and pan-European transport,...

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Mellanox Cites Momentum for its 25G Ethernet Adapters

Mellanox Technologies announced that the ConnectX-4 Lx 25 Gigabit OCP and PCIe Ethernet adapters targeting data centre applications, which deliver 2.5x the throughput of 10 Gbit/s solutions using the same infrastructure, along with low latency performance, have been adopted by a number of major ODMs (original design manufacturers).Mellanox stated that it is currently shipping hundreds of thousands of Ethernet adapters each quarter in line with increasing...

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Monthly update on the Indian telecommunications market - Part 2

Full article: Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3, Part 4 Update on consolidation of the 12-operator telecom market to four groups Group 1 - Bharti Airtel plus Telenor Bharti Airtel to acquire Augere Wireless, Telenor India and possibly some spectrum from Tikona On February 17th Bharti Airtel, the current Indian telecom market leader, which as of December 2016 served 23.57% of Indian mobile subscriptions, closed the acquisition of...

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Vodafone Egypt selects Procera

Procera Networks has announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership with Vodafone Egypt, the largest mobile operator in the country with over 39 million subscribers, under which its virtualised solutions will be deployed to enhance the subscriber experience for fixed and mobile subscribers.Procera noted that it was selected following a competitive evaluation, and for the project its virtualised technology will be implemented to provide...

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