DOCOMO commits to multivendor O-RAN for 4G/5G

NTT DOCOMO has commenced deployment of a 4G/5G multivendor radio access network conforming to O-RAN specifications. Working in collaboration with Fujitsu, NEC, and Nokia, DOCOMO has demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability across a variety of 4G and 5G base station equipment compatible with O-RAN. The O-RAN standards include fronthaul specifications and X2 profile specifications. O-RAN fronthaul specifications are used to establish the connections...

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Equinix extends global reach of Oracle Cloud infrastructure

Equinix will provide global reach for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure is designed to create an infrastructure that matches the performance, control and governance of enterprise data centers, while delivering the scale, elasticity and cost savings of public clouds. Recent global market expansions by Equinix in São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Zurich now provide customers in these metros with private and...

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Interxion backs IX-API

INTERXION, which is a leading provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, announced its support for the new Internet Exchange Application Programming Interface (IX-API). Interxion will use IX-API to deliver customers on-demand remote peering, providing access to peering services from all Interxion data centres across Europe. AMS-IX, DE-CIX and LINX develop a universal IX-API Tuesday, September 17, 2019  IX   Three...

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TM GLOBAL and Angola Cables study express route for southern hemisphere

TM GLOBAL, the global and wholesale arm of Telekom Malaysia, and Angola Cables have been exploring a new express route connecting the southern hemisphere subsea cables from Asia directly to South America. A Proof of Concept (PoC) testing is being conducted by both parties leveraging two (2) cable systems; the South Africa Far East cable system (SAFE), connecting Malaysia to Angola, and South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) connecting Angola to Brazil...

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Orange and PCCW join PEACE subsea cable project

PCCW Global, Orange, and PEACE Cable International, a leading international submarine cable operator, reached agreement to deploy the Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) submarine cable system. PEACE will be a 12,000km ultra-low latency cable system connecting three of the largest and most populous continents in the world - Asia, Africa and Europe. The backbone of the project will interconnect Pakistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya and...

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Arista's CloudVision boosts automation

Arista Networks announced CloudVision 2019, a software platform designed to bring cloud network operations to enterprise customers through a network-wide suite of automation, telemetry, and analytics. The company said its CloudVision builds on its cognitive management plane framework. The idea is to provide a consistent management plane across data center, campus wired and wireless, and public cloud use-cases. CloudVision includes centralized...

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MaxLinear announces PAM4 DSPs optimized for 100G

MaxLinear announced the extension of its Telluride 100G per wavelength PAM4 DSP family with the availability of the MxL93515 and MxL93516, optimized for 100G applications. MaxLinear said its second-generation DSPs offer significantly lower power and smaller footprint, comfortably enabling sub-3.5W QSFP28 designs while also meeting the form factor needs of the smaller SFP-DD/DSFP optical modules. Like its first-generation DSPs, the MxL93516 includes...

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