Telia Carrier and Telxius announce transatlantic capacity deal

Telia Carrier and Telxius announced a major network capacity agreement combining Telia Carrier’s extensive terrestrial European and North American footprint and Telxius’ newest transatlantic cable assets, The deal paves the wave for multi-terabit transatlantic capacity services. Telia Carrier owns and operates the world’s #1 backbone (according to Dyn Research) and provides critical network infrastructure, services and cloud connectivity to operators,...

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Verizon preps 5G launch in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11

Verizon confirmed plans to launch its 5G Ultra Wideband Network in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11, and in more than 30 markets across the country by the end of the year. The company previously launched a 5G fixed service for home broadband in October 2018 in certain neighborhoods of Houston, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Indianapolis. Verizon is offering the new 5G moto mod, which pairs with the moto z3, to form a 5G-enabled smartphone. Verizon...

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Facebook suffers widespread outage

Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram suffered a widespread outage beginning around noon (ET) on Wednesday. Users report difficulty in accessing the services in major U.S. metros, the UK, northern Europe, and Latin America. Industry analysts described the disruption as perhaps the largest in Facebook's history in terms of the number of users affected and length of the outage. The company acknowledged the outage and stated that it was not...

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Samsung intros 12GB DRAM for mobiles

Samsung Electronics Co. announced mass production of the industry’s first 12-gigabyte (GB) low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) package -- the highest-capacity mobile DRAM to date. "With mass production of the new LPDDR4X, Samsung is now providing a comprehensive lineup of advanced memory to power the new era of smartphones, from 12GB mobile DRAM to 512GB eUFS 3.0 storage," said Sewon Chun, executive vice president of Memory Marketing at Samsung...

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Burns & McDonnell installs Fujitsu 1FINITY

Burns & McDonnell has installed the Fujitsu 1FINITY optical networking platform from Fujitsu Network Communications at its Integration and Automation Lab in Kansas City to demonstrated 100G transmission. The modular design of the 1FINITY platform allows utilities to use a pay-as-you-grow approach to build nodes as needed on their distribution systems. The Burns & McDonnell Integration and Automation Lab serves as a technology testing...

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Vertical Systems: 2018 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD

AT&T ranks first on Vertical Systems Group's 2018 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD, followed by Colt, CenturyLink, BT Global and Orange, Verizon, and NTT. The Global Provider LEADERBOARD ranks companies that hold a 4% or higher share of billable retail ports at sites outside of their respective home countries. Share margins continue to narrow among the leading global service providers in this very competitive market segment. Latest share...

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Subsea Optical Fiber Summer School in Finland

The OSA Foundation (OSAF), in partnership with Google, will conduct an inaugural Subsea Optical Fiber Communications International Summer School in Finland for early-stage researchers, engineers and Ph.D. or Master’s degree students looking for a new field of opportunity. The program, which will be held 04-10 August 2019 will focus on the expanding field of subsea optical fiber communications. Attendees will go through a comprehensive process to...

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Cloudera posts revenue of $145 million

Cloudera, which completed its merger with Hortonworks on January 3, 2019, reported total revenue of $144.5 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, ended January 31st, an increase of 37% from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018. Subscription revenue was $123.0 million, an increase of 42% from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018. GAAP loss from operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019 was $87.0 million. For reference, GAAP loss from operations...

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Equinix reshuffles executive team

Equinix made the following changes to its leadership team: Karl Strohmeyer, currently President, Americas, will begin serving as Chief Customer and Revenue Officer, overseeing the company's overall go-to-market strategy. Sara Baack, who currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer, will take on the role of Chief Product Officer, leading Product Marketing, Management, Development and Engineering across core colocation and interconnection offerings,...

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