Infinera to acquire Coriant for $430 million

Infinera agreed to acquire privately-held Coriant, creating one of the world’s largest optical network equipment providers. Infinera will pay approximately $150 million in cash at closing, and estimated additional amounts of $25 million in the two quarters post-closing and $55 million over a period of years. Infinera will issue approximately 21 million shares, which when combined with the cash consideration, results in total transaction consideration...

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Singtel plans 5G pilot for Q4

Singtel expects to kickoff its 5G trial by the fourth quarter of this year. The 5G pilot network, which will be conducted in partnership with Ericsson, will occr a0t one-north, the country’s science, business and IT hub. Singapore's Info-Communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) has allocated spectrum for the trial. “5G has the potential to accelerate the digital transformation of industries, as well as empower consumers with innovative...

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Ericsson wins more Verizon LTE markets

Verizon has selected Ericsson to supply 4G equipment in additional markets across the U.S. Financial terms were not disclosed. The installations include Ericsson Radio System 4G LTE equipment, which is a 5G-ready platform that will allow Verizon to rapidly transition sites to 5G when they deploy the service in those markets. Specifically, Ericsson said the new markets will be deployed using its latest baseband and dual band radios, an optimized...

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Qualcomm delivers 5G NR mmWave antenna modules

Qualcomm Technologies has begun sampling fully-integrated 5G NR millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-6 GHz RF modules for smartphones and other mobile devices. The Qualcomm QTM052 mmWave antenna module family and the Qualcomm QPM56xx sub-6 GHz RF module family pair with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem to deliver modem-to-antenna capabilities across several spectrum bands, in a compact footprint that is suited for integration in mobile devices. “Today’s...

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Iron Mountain ties into Google Cloud as preferred provider

Iron Mountain, which specializes in secure corporate storage solutions, is working with Google to develop AI-powered SaaS solutions on Google Cloud Platform that help organizations analyze their vast physical and digital information and data repositories, to unlock insights, improve decision making and create new revenue streams. Iron Mountain expects to deliver these new subscription services built on GCP this September. In addition, Iron Mountain...

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Arista'a Any Cloud hybrid platform reaches Google Cloud Platform

Arista's Any Cloud hybrid cloud networking platform is now available on Google Cloud Platform. This includes the virtualized Arista vEOS Router combined with CloudVision with Cloud Tracer functionality. Arista's vEOS Router leverages a cloud-grade routing stack and IPsec VPN tunnels to reliably and securely interconnect workloads across multi-cloud deployments. In addition, vEOS Router is integrated with Google Cloud provider APIs to enable easy...

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Google posts another strong quarter with sales up 26%

Alphabet reported revenue of $32.657 billion for its Q2 ended 30-June-2018 up 26% versus the second quarter of 2017 and 23% on a constant currency basis. "We delivered another quarter of very strong performance, with revenues of $32.7 billion, up 26% versus the second quarter of 2017 and 23% on a constant currency basis. Our investments are driving great experiences for users, strong results for advertisers, and new business opportunities for Google...

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Digital Realty establishes direct connect to IBM Cloud in 15 cities

Digital Realty announced dedicated, private access to the IBM Cloud in 15 major metropolitan areas around the world.  These Direct access to IBM Cloud is now available through the Digital Realty Service Exchange and IBM Cloud Direct Link via more than 70 Digital Realty data centers in Amsterdam, Ashburn, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Miami, Phoenix, Portland, New York, Santa Clara, Seattle,...

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Toshiba ships NVMe SSDs based on 3D Flash

Toshiba Memory Corporation launched its first NVM Express SSDs utilizing 96-layer, fourth generation, 3D BiCS FLASH memory technology. The new XG6 series client SSDs features a PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3 x 4Lane and NVM Express (NVMeTM) 1.3a interface. The XG6 series delivers sequential write performance of up to 2960 MB/s in client SSDs. Sequential read performance is up to 3180 MB/s, up to 355,000 random read and 365,000 random write IOPS. The power...

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