Telia Carrier adds key routes to U.S. network

Telia Carrier announced the addition of diverse and latency-optimized routes on its North American network to meet significant customer demand for additional diversity and capacity, especially for businesses that need a direct local connection to cloud providers. Specifically, Telia Carrier has expanded its fiber backbone to connect Dallas on a new diverse east-west route via Memphis to Nashville. In combination with the previously announced new...

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AWS intros interactive video service based on Twitch technology

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new fully managed service that makes it easy to set up live, interactive video streams for a web or mobile application . Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) uses the same technology that powers Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming services in the world with nearly 10 billion hours of video watched in 2019. AWS says its service will deliver live content with latency that can be less than...

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Twitter suffers major security breach

Twitter suffered a major security breach impacting the verified accounts of Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Apple and many other high-profile users. The hackers apparently were able to breach the two-factor authentication of multiple users simultaneously, raising the possibility that Twitter's own systems were compromised. An investigation is underway.  ...

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AWS wins long-term strategic cloud contract with HSBC

HSBC Holdings, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, has selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services. As part of a multi-year, global agreement, HSBC will make AWS technology available across the bank’s lines of business, starting with customer-facing applications and application modernization in its Global Wealth...

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Omantel picks Ericsson for 5G

Omantel has selected Ericsson to support the Sultanate’s ongoing 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment plans in a multi-year partnership. Specifically, Ericsson will support Omantel’s commercial 5G deployment at key locations across Oman, including Salalah, Nizwa and Sur. Financial terms were not disclosed. The contract covers hardware and software products and solutions from the Ericsson Radio System portfolio, including Advanced Antenna Systems...

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Corning and EnerSys simplify fiber and electrical power to small cells

Corning and EnerSys are collaborating to speed 5G deployment by simplifying the delivery of fiber and electrical power to small-cell wireless sites. The collaboration will leverage Corning's fiber, cable, and connectivity expertise and EnerSys’ technology leadership in remote powering solutions. The companies are working to solve infrastructure challenges in the deployment of 5G and small cells in outside plant networks. “The deployment scale of...

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Sri Lanka Telecom picks Nokia for next generation fiber network

Sri Lanka Telecom has selected Nokia for its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The carrier aims to bring new, high-speed broadband services to more than 200,000 enterprise and residential users across the country. Kiththi Perera, Chief Executive Officer at Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, said: “We are pleased to partner with Nokia to bring unparalleled data speeds to our enterprise and residential users. By fully utilizing the fiber-technology, we are looking...

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Global Cloud Xchange appoints Carl Grivner as CEO

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has appointed Carl Grivner as Chief Executive Officer. Grivner previously was the CEO of Colt Technology Services. Before joining Colt, he served three years in Singapore as CEO of Pacnet, directing the global strategy of one of Asia's leading end-to-end communications service providers. Previously, Mr. Grivner held leadership positions for numerous companies, including Cable & Wireless plc, Ameritech, and IBM. "It...

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