MEF publishes SD-WAN standard

MEF officially published SD-WAN Service Attributes and Services (MEF 70) -- the industry’s first global standard defining an SD-WAN service and its service attributes. The standard was officially approved by MEF members and ratified by the MEF Board of Directors at the organization’s recent Annual Members Meeting. The SD-WAN standard describes requirements for an application-aware, over-the-top WAN connectivity service that uses policies to determine...

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Amazon offers homegrown forecasting tool on AWS

Amazon is releasing its homegrown forecasting system as an on-demand service on AWS. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts based on the same technology that powers Amazon.com. “Amazon Forecast now offers the forecasting expertise from Amazon’s first 25 years of building the world’s largest ecommerce business in a managed service for any company to leverage,” said Swami Sivasubramanian,...

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Xilinx's Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA boasts 35 billion transistors

Xilinx has expanded its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include the world's largest FPGA — the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P. The new VU19P FPGA boasts 35 billion transistors, the highest logic density and I/O count on a single device, according to Xilinx. The device could be used for enabling emulation and prototyping of tomorrow's most advanced ASIC and SoC technologies, as well as test, measurement, compute, networking, aerospace and defense-related...

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Dell'Oro:Surging 5G deployments in APAC

Healthy LTE growth and surging 5G investments in the Asia Pacific region added fuel to the Radio Access Networks (RAN) market upswing that began in the second half of 2018, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. “After several years of the Asia Pacific region being a drag on the worldwide RAN market, preliminary 2Q 2019 data points indicated positive trends extended into the second quarter, adding confidence that the tides are turning in...

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TeraPixel tapes out its 5nm AI chip

TeraPixel Technologies announced that it recently taped out its 5nm "Extrixa Processor". The deep-learning AI processpr is the world's first chip that uses TSMC 5nm. TeraPixel Technologies expects to tape out the second version with the same functions as the product version with SRAM and other functional blocks. The comopany is targeting commercial release in 20...

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Zayo posts revenue of $651M, 2-3% growth rate

Zayo reported $650.6 million of consolidated revenue, including $485.4 million from the Zayo Networks segment, $66.1 million from the zColo segment and $88.0 million from the Allstream segment. This represents an annualized revenue growth rate of 2%. Net income of $63.0 million resulting in basic and diluted net income per share during the quarter of $0.27 and $0.26, respectively. Net income was $28.3 million over the previous quarter. During the...

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FS ships 25G BiDi transceivers

FS introduced a 25GBASE-BX10-D SFP28 1330nm-TX/1270nm-RX 10km DOM transceiver module. Transceiver units are compatible with Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Brocade, Mellanox or generic. The list price is $209 https://www.fs.com/products/85125.html ...

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Infographic: Anatomy of a Submarine Network

Infinera presents "Anatomy of a Submarine Network" https://www.infinera.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-submarine-network-the-workhorse-of-the-interne...

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