NTT and Tokyo Institute of Tech achieve 100 Gbps using terahertz band

NTT and Tokyo Institute of Technology have jointly developed an ultra high-speed IC for wireless front-end that operates on a terahertz frequency band, and in the 300 GHz band they have achieved a record 100 Gbps wireless transmission data rate. The researchers implemented a mixer circuit that applied a unique proprietary high isolation design technology with an Indium phosphide high electron mobility transistor (InP-HEMT). NTT said this process...

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Deutsche Telekom extends broadband rollout

Deutsche Telekom confirmed plans to lay 60,000 kilometers of optical fiber in 2018. This compares to 40,000 kilometers laid in 2017. Telekom's full fiber-optic network now measures 455,000 kilometers -- the largest in Europe. It would wrap around the Earth ten times. Telekom calculates that it costs between 50,000 and 150,000 euros to lay a kilometer of optical fiber cable. Deutsche Telekom kicked off a fiber-optic build-out in the port area of...

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AT&T expands purchases of wind energy

AT&T announced a new agreement to purchase 300 megawatts (MW) of wind energy from a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources. The contract covers renewable energy from two new wind farm projects in Wilbarger and Hardeman Counties, Texas. AT&T has previously announced investments backing two wind energy centers in Webb and Duval Counties in Texas and Caddo County, Oklahoma. Together, these agreements will deliver 820 MW of wind power. AT&T...

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Equinix to host Vocus Australia Singapore Cable POP in its data centers

The new subsea cable system offers additional points of presence to address rising interconnection demand between Australia and Southeast Asia Equinix will host the Vocus-owned Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) in its International Business ExchangeTM (IBX) data centers in Singapore and across six metros in Australia, including the Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Perth and points of presence (PoP) in Sydney and Melbourne already announced. The ASC...

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Windstream Wholesale boosts fiber presence at NJFX

Windstream Wholesale is fortifying its fiber transport network at NJFX’s Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation campus, located at the cable landing station in Wall, NJ. “What Windstream Wholesale offers at the NJFX colocation campus is a reliable, high-quality option for organizations coming in internationally, looking for connectivity options in the U.S,” commented Joe Scattareggia, president of Windstream Wholesale. “This newest project is an overbuild...

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Tintri teeters at edge on insolvency, less than 1 year after IPO

Less than one year after completing its IPO, Tintri (NASDAQ: TNTR), which specializes in enterprise cloud platforms, reported that it is currently in breach of certain covenants under its credit facilities and likely does not have sufficient liquidity to continue its operations beyond June 30, 2018. The company said it continues to evaluate its strategic options, including a sale of the company. Q1 revenue is expected to be approximately $22 million...

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Iridium's NEXT launch set for July 20

The seventh Iridium NEXT mission has been targeted by SpaceX for launch on July 20, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). This will be the second-to-last launch of the planned Iridium NEXT program, bringing the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in space to 65. All 10 satellites for this mission will be deployed to Iridium orbital plane number...

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Huawei announces 5G-oriented Discrete Spectrum Aggregation

Huawei released its 4.5G-based, 5G-oriented eLTE Discrete Spectrum Aggregation (eLTE-DSA) for energy utilities Huawei said traditional narrowband solutions based on VHF (30 MHz to 300 MHz) and UHF (300 MHz to 3000 MHz) bands are flawed with low data rates, long latency, small capacity, which means they are unable to meet the demand for sustaining IoE growth. Huawei has designed the eLTE-DSA solution to overcome the obstacles of traditional narrowband...

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Wave Computing acquires MIPS Technologies

Wave Computing, a start-up based in Campbell, California that is focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, has acquired MIPS Tech, Inc. (formerly MIPS Technologies). Financial terms were not disclosed. MIPS, which was founded in 1984 by a group of researchers from Stanford University that included John L. Hennessy, in known as a pioneer RISC processor Intellectual Property (IP) and licensable CPU cores. MIPS holds over 350 worldwide...

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