Google picks Equinix for Curie Subsea Cable Landing Station

Google has selected an Equinix data center in El Segundo, California as the cable landing station (CLS) for the new Curie subsea cable system.  In the U.S., the cable will land directly at the Equinix LA4 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center. The Curie cable is expected to go live in 2019. Equinix said the CLS configuration is ideal for extending the backhaul capacity of a subsea cable system directly to the ecosystems of companies...

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Mirantis to power AT&T’s Airship for Kubernetes infrastructure

AT&T has selected Mirantis to play a key role in its implementation Airship, Kubernetes and OpenStack based Network Cloud infrastructure. Airship is the project originally founded by AT&T, SKT and Intel under the OpenStack Foundation for enabling telcos to take advantage of on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure to support their SDN infrastructure builds. "Replacing VM-based infrastructure with cloud-native, open technologies based on containers...

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Germany's M-net tests Nokia's probabilistically shaped wavelengths

M-net Telekommunikations GmbH, a German service provider, has conducted the first field trial of probabilistically shaped wavelengths using Nokia Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE 3) super coherent technology.  Specifically, M-net and Nokia enabled a 500 Gbps, single, probabilistically shaped wavelength over a regional DWDM network spanning the German state of Bavaria. M-net used probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) to shape the signal from...

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T-Mobile US sees revenue grow 6% in 2019

T-Mobile US reported Q4 2018 serve revenues of $8.2 billion, up 6% in Q4 2018. Annual revenue was also up 6% to $32.0 billion.  Diluted earnings per share amounted to $0.75 and $3.36 in Q4 2018 and 2018, respectively. “This never gets old! T-Mobile finished another year with record-breaking financials and our best-ever customer growth! Record revenues, strong net income, record Adjusted EBITDA, our lowest-ever Q4 postpaid phone churn that was...

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Turkcell builds unified telco cloud on Red Hat OpenStack

Red Hat confirmed that its OpenStack Platform and Ceph Storage solution powers Turkcell's centralized virtualization infrastructure (NFVi), which is called the Turkcell Unified Telco Cloud. Red Hat Consulting helped Turkcell design its Unified Telco Cloud and train up its network team, in collaboration with Affirmed Networks in the role of main systems integrator. Turkcell serves more than 35 million subscribers with 99 percent population coverage...

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5G European Validation program gets underway

A 5G European testing validation platform known as 5G-EVE (5G European Validation platform for Extensive trials) will develop and interconnect four existing European sites - in Greece, Spain, France and Italy. The goal is to create a unique 5G end-to-end facility. The sites are complemented by advanced labs, such as the Ericsson lab in Kista, Sweden. Ericsson Spain hosted 5G-EVE's first plenary from February 4-6. The program currently...

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A10's revenue rises to $62 million, up 11%

A10 Networks reported Q4 2018 revenue of $61.8 million, compared with $55.5 million in fourth quarter 2017. GAAP gross margin was 77.7 percent and non-GAAP gross margin of 78.2 percent. GAAP net loss was $1.6 million, or $0.02 per basic and diluted share, non-GAAP net income was $4.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share. "We are building solid momentum in the market with our advanced suite of 5G, security and multi-cloud solutions. Revenue increased...

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