Video: Connecting Everywhere - GTT at #ITW2017

It's been a very big year for GTT.  In January, GTT completed the aquisition of Hibernia Networks, which brings substantial assets, including a Layer 1 optical transport networrk and three subsea cable routes. GTT Express is now the fastest transatlantic cable. In this video, Rick Calder, GTT/s CEO, provides a company update. See video: https://youtu.be/qiU9aG07W8w ...

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Video: Hybrid Cloud Services for Multinationals - Unitas Global

Not all companies want their data to reside in a single cloud. Increasingly, major enterprises are opting for a multicloud strategy. Unitas Global is a provider of hybrid infrastructure and cloud services to global enterprises. Patrick Shutt, CEO of Unitas Global, provides a market update. See video: https://youtu.be/F8Ozabx6LE4 ...

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Video: Building Data Centers and Cable Landing Stations - @EtixEverywhere #ITW2017

The race to build first class data centers is on. 0 Etix Everywhere builds, finances and operates data centers and cable landing stations worldwide.  The company is already in 19 countries and has many projects ongoing. Antoine Boniface, Managing Director of Etix Everywhere, provides an update. See video: https://youtu.be/9X63NYkCthU ...

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Video: Fronthaul Dark Fiber for NYC - ZenFi at #!TW2017

Mobile and wireless networks will need tremendous fronthaul and backhaul capacity especially in dense urban core. This requires lots and lots of fiber. ZenFi is rolling out a massive dark fiber network covering all five boroughs of New York City. Here's a market update presented by Walter Cannon, VP Sales & Marketing for ZenFi Networks. See video: https://youtu.be/7w2KONmeBBY ...

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Vodafone to transfer 35% interest in Safaricom to Vodacom

Vodafone Group announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vodafone International Holdings B.V., has agreed to transfer part of its indirect shareholding in Safaricom, serving around 28 million subscribers in East and Central Africa, to Vodacom Group, its sub-Saharan Africa subsidiary.Under the terms of the transaction, Vodafone will exchange a 35% indirect interest in Safaricom for 226.8 million new ordinary Vodacom shares. The transaction, which...

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Coriant Appoints Homayoun Razavi as Chief Customer Officer

Coriant has appointed Homayoun Razavi to lead its global sales and marketing organization. As Chief Customer Officer (CCO), Executive Vice President of Global Sales, and Chief Digital Marketing Officer (CDMO), Razavi is responsible for development and execution of the company’s global sales, go-to-market, channel, and marketing strategy. He reports directly to the company CEO and Chairman, Shaygan Kheradpir. Razavi has held executive level positions...

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TE SubCom introduces eLMS fault tracking and performance monitoring

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company and a developer and supplier of undersea communications technology, has announced the availability of eLMS (enhanced line monitoring system), its new customisable solution designed to enable continuous tracking of fault conditions and cable performance.Enhancements to TE SubCom's line monitoring functionality allow cable operators to detect changes in cable performance without the need to interpret raw data, delivering...

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Telia Carrier launches new shorter route between Zurich and Strasbourg

Global wholesale services provider Telia Carrier announced a new, high capacity route that extends from Zurich, Switzerland to Strasbourg in France via Basel, Switzerland, providing a shorter path and lower latency between Frankfurt in Germany and Zurich.With the launch of a new PoP and metro fibre in Zurich, Switzerland the new route provides customers with routing options that can significantly improve performance for transmission to and from Milan,...

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Sprint Launches SD-WAN with VeloCloud

Sprint launched its Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) services. The service is powered with VeloCloud's SD-WAN solution. “The rapid change in technology is driving companies to consider SD-WAN as the answer to simplifying network challenges,” said Mike Fitz, vice president of the Sprint Global Wireline Business Unit. “The Sprint SD-WAN dashboard provides our customers with real-time, detailed visibility into the performance of their entire...

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GlobeNet expands facilities in Rio de Janeiro and Colombia

GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of telecom infrastructure in the Americas, announced that the expansion of its colocation facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the construction of a new data centre facility in Barranquilla, Colombia are scheduled to be completed in August as part of efforts to address increasing demand for wholesale telco and IT services in the Latin American market.Both of the facilities are designed to expand GlobeNet's strategy...

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XKL introduces DarkStar Mux/Demux-Amplifier

XKL, a provider of optical networking systems, announced the launch of its DarkStar Mux/Demux-Amplifier (DMD-A) optical utility appliance, which offers optional features designed to enable for optimal network flexibility and manageability. XKL's DMD-A appliance supports a variety of filter options including 48-channel or 96-channel mux/demux and 4-band or 6-band combiner filter, and enables point-to-point or east/west configurations. It also...

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HPE Unveils The Machine for Memory-driven Computing

Hewlett Packard Enterprise officially introduced The Machine - the world’s largest single-memory computer. The first prototype, which is the outcome of the largest R&D program in the history of the company,  contains 160 terabytes (TB) of memory. The company said The Machine architecture could scale to an exabyte-scale single-memory system and, beyond that, to a nearly-limitless pool of memory—4,096 yottabytes. For context, that is 250,000...

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China telecoms market monthly update - Part 1

Mobile subscribers for March 2017 (millions):             Total subs       Added March   4G subs  Added March China Mobile 856.485           2.787   568.074           9.471 China Unicom 266.265          ...

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Nokia enhances customer care and analytics software for digital services

Nokia has unveiled new machine learning capabilities and expertise designed to help service providers enhance the digital customer experience, specifically via the introduction of new solutions including Autonomous Customer Care and Cognitive Analytics for Crowd Insight software, and the Analytics Office Services suite.Autonomous Customer CareThe new Autonomous Customer Care software, which targets the customer interaction segment within customer...

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Pakistan selects ZTE to provide solutions for delivery of digital terrestrial TV

ZTE announced it has signed an agreement with Pakistan Television (PTV) covering digital television services during the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, China.Under the agreement, PTV will leverage ZTE's technology to enable the delivery of digital TV broadcasts to viewers in Pakistan based on the DTMB (digital terrestrial multimedia broadcast) standard.ZTE noted that Pakistan announced the adoption of the DTMB standard...

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