AT&T says its 5G rollout is on track

AT&T reported Q2 2019 consolidated revenues of $45.0 billion and adjusted EPS of $0.89 compared to $0.91 in the year-ago quarter. The company raised its free cash flow guidance to $28 billion range and reaffirmed its financial guidance for the rest of the year. Declines in revenues from legacy wireline services, Vrio, domestic video and wireless equipment were more than offset by the addition of WarnerMedia and growth in domestic wireless services,...

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ADVA hits new benchmarks for bandwidth/reach on terrestrial long-haul

ADVA announced new benchmarks for bandwidth and reach on terrestrial long-haul using its FSP 3000 TeraFlex platform. The new records were achieved in a commercial long-haul terrestrial network originally built for 100Gbit/s services. ADVA’s partners included the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), EENet of HITSA and Tele2 Estonia. Using an optical spectrum-as-a-service approach, the terminal achieved 200Gbit/s per wavelength transmission...

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Equinix boosts its private cloud network onramp to AWS

Equinix is participating in the launch of the new AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Program, which allows Equinix customers to use Hosted Connections with 1G, 2G, 5G and 10G capacities on Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric). The enhanced capabilities ensure lower latency and higher bandwidth capacities for hybrid cloud architectures on Platform Equinix. Equinix said the availability of new 1G, 2G, 5G and 10G capacities allows its customers...

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ECI debuts 5G cell site router

ECI introduced its "1022" cell site router, the first of the company’s end-to-end portfolio tailored for 5G. The 1022 cell site router combines high capacity in a small form factor. It offers MPLS, network slicing, class C and D synch capabilities and open NetConf/Yang interfaces. ECI said the 1022 represents the next evolution of its Neptune product line, inheriting its multiservice, Elastic MPLS capabilities that allow customers to support current,...

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CoreSite posts Q2 data center revenue of $142.9m, up4.7%

CoreSite reported Q2 operating revenues of $142.9 million, an increase of 4.7% year over year and 2.9% sequentially. The company delivered net income of $0.53 per common diluted share, a decrease of $0.04 year over year and $0.01 sequentially. “We continued to execute on our 2019 imperatives to accelerate growth in 2020 and beyond,” said Paul Szurek, CoreSite’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We completed projects in our property development...

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Mellanox posts record revenue of $310.3m, up 16% yoy

Mellanox Technologies reported record revenue of $310.3 million in the second quarter, an increase of 15.6 percent, compared to $268.5 million in the second quarter of 2018. GAAP gross margins were 64.5 percent, compared to 61.4 percent in the second quarter of 2018. Non-GAAP net income amounted to $83.9 million in the second quarter, compared to $66.6 million in the second quarter of 2018. “Mellanox delivered record revenue in Q2, achieving 2 percent...

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IDC: SD-WAN market to hit $5.25 billion by 2023

The SD-WAN infrastructure market will grow at a 30.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2018 to 2023 to reach $5.25 billion, according to IDC's SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast. The SD-WAN infrastructure market to be highly competitive, according to IDC, with sales increasing by 64.9% in 2018 to $1.37 billion. IDC finds that Cisco holds the largest share of the SD-WAN infrastructure market, fueled by its extensive routing portfolio that is...

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LinkedIn to transition its workloads into Azure

LinkedIn, which is a business subsidiary of Microsoft, will migrate away from private data centers into the Azure public cloud. The strategic shift was confirmed on the LinkedIn Engineering blog in a posting by Mohak Shroff. LinkedIn currently serves 645million users and the company boasts that someone is hired due to their LinkedIn profile every eight seconds. https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/building-next-in...

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T-Mobile activates LTE over 60,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico

T-Mobile has activated LTE coverage over 60,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico. The rollout leverages T-Mobile’s 600 MHz and RigNet’s 700 MHz spectrum Gulf of Mexico digital microwave infrastructure mounted on oil rigs. T-Mobile used 5G-ready equipment to light up LTE in the Gulf. “We’re putting an end to the pain that businesses and consumers in the Gulf have felt for years with limited connectivity – and in some cases, none at all,” said...

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HPE to invest $500m in India over 5 years

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will invest $500 million in India over the next five years in an effort to grow its operations, manufacturing and employee base in the country, increase its R&D and services exports, as well as invest in technology initiatives to drive positive change for local Indian communities. Specifically, HPE plans to increase its workforce in India by 20% over the next three to five years. In particular, HPE will hire new engineering...

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