NTT employs Orbital Angular Momentum multiplexing for 100G wireless

NTT successfully demonstrated the first use of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) multiplexing to achieve 100 Gbps wireless transmission. The laboratory tests combined OAM multiplexing with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology and carried the signals a distance of 10m. NTT said a key feature of OAM is that electromagnetic waves can be superposed and separated because phase rotation occurs on the vertical plane in the propagation direction. ...

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Google Cloud acquires Cask for big data ingestion on-ramp

Google Cloud will acquire Cask Data Inc., a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, that offers a big data platform for enterprises. Financial terms were not disclosed. The open source Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) provides a data ingestion service that simplifies and automates the task of building, running, and managing data pipelines. Cask says it cuts down the time to production for data applications and data lakes by 80%. The idea is...

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Deutsche Telekom pursues “billions for millions” broadband strategy

Deutsche Telekom invested 5.4 billion euros on networks and new data centers in Germany in the last year, he said. Speaking at Deutsche Telekom's shareholders' meeting in Bonn, CEO Tim Höttges said the company is pursuing a strategy of “billions for millions,” seeking to ensure that broadband coverage is built out as quickly and as comprehensively as possible. The targets for the next stage of Deutsche Telekom's broadband strategy are to provide...

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Mellanox raises Q2 and full year 2018 outlook

Citing strength across all its product lines, including InfiniBand and Ethernet, Mellanox Technologies raised its second quarter and full year 2018 outlook. Mellanox currently projects: Quarterly revenues of $260 million to $270 million. Prior guidance provided on April 17, 2018 was quarterly revenues of $255 million to $265 million. Full Year 2018 revenues of $1,050 million to $1,070 million. Prior guidance was revenues of $1,030 million to $1,050...

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Tachyum announces its Universal Processor Platform

Tachyum, a start-up based in San Jose, California with offices in Slovakia, unveiled its new processor family – codenamed “Prodigy” – that combines the advantages of CPUs with GP-GPUs, and specialized AI chips in a single universal processor platform. The company says its processor architecture attains ten times the processing power per watt compared to conventional designs. A key innovation of the design is the ability to connect very fast transistor...

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Vesper raises $23M for its MEMS piezoelectric microphones

Vesper, a start-up based in Boston, announced $23 million in Series B funding for its MEMS-based piezoelectric sensors. Vesper said its MEMS microphones represent a radical shift from capacitive MEMS microphones. Its piezoelectric design is suited for far-field applications such as microphone arrays used in voice-interface devices. The design is waterproof, dustproof, particle-resistant and shockproof. "Our vision is for Alexa to be everywhere,...

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HOPUS connects Paris and Amsterdam metro markets with Coriant

HOPUS, a Marseille-based provider of IP connectivity services, has deployed the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform to scale network capacity and accelerate provisioning of high-speed transit services. The new regional network deployment will support 100G DWDM transport between the Paris and Amsterdam metropolitan markets and enable efficient delivery of end-to-end internet exchange and IP services. “With the unabated explosion of...

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