Friday, June 21, 2019

U.S. adds Chinese companies to Entity List

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added Chinese organizations to its Entity list for activities that are contrary to U.S. national security or foreign policy interest. As published in the Federal Register, these organizations include: Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit, including two aliases (Hygon and Chengdu Haiguang Jincheng Dianlu Sheji); Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology, including two aliases...

Leaseweb interconnects data centers with Infinera's Groove G30

Leaseweb, which operates 20 data centers in locations across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, has deployed the Infinera Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform to interconnect its data centers in North America. Infinera said its platform was selected by Leaseweb to strengthen its global network, which has a core uptime of 99.999% and a bandwidth capacity of 6 Tbps. In addition to the implementation in North America, Leaseweb Network...

Zayo to provide managed video network over 100G for news broadcaster

A major news broadcaster has selected Zayp to provide a managed video network. The diverse fiber network will enable the customer to disseminate video and data to its bureaus in the U.S. and Europe. Financial terms were not disclosed. Zayo’s 100G-enabled Media Network solutions are delivered on the company’s owned fiber network that spans more than 12.5 million fiber miles across North America and Europe. “Our differentiator for this customer is...

Arianespace launches T-16 and EUTELSAT 7C satellites

Arianespace successfully launched two communications satellites: DirecTV's T-16 and EUTELSAT 7C. DirecTV's T-16, which built by Airbus Defence and Space, will provide high-power broadcast services to the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. DirecTV, which is owned by AT&T, has not further plans for additional satellites at this time. EUTELSAT 7C is a high-power broadcast satellite for markets in Africa, Europe, the Middle...

Vodafone and Ericsson provide private 5G at automotive plant

Ericsson and Vodafone Germany are not providing 5G for German electric microcar company e.GO Mobile AG at its Aachen complex. The Ericsson Private Networks solution includes 5G Core and 5G New Radio solution. The network will deliver secure and almost real-time data networking across the production chain, from digital material management to autonomous vehicle control. Incorporating network slicing and mobile edge computing technologies, which...