Perspective: Get your core (network) in shape during COVID-19

by Zoltan Varnai Cloud Core Marketing Manager, Nokia Some of you reading this blog may be doing so under lockdown, while working from home. Whether or not you are working is another matter, but regardless, you will be using data. In this current time, when so many people are staying indoors to prevent the spread of COVID-19 – replacing face-to-face meetings with virtual ones, going online to keep up-to-date with education, and to use streaming services...

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MIT advances quantum information sharing between processors

Researchers at MIT are developing an on-off system that leverages "giant atoms" to enable high-fidelity operations and interconnection between processors. A key challenge in quantum computing has been to communicate quantum information between distant parts of a processor. In a paper published in the journal Nature, the MIT researchers constructed “giant artificial atoms” from superconducting quantum bits, or qubits, connected in a tunable configuration...

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Digital Realty and Interxion see continued growth, 86% occupancy

Digital Realty reported Q2 revenues of $993 million, a 21% increase from the previous quarter and a 24% increase from the same quarter last year.  Net income was $76 million, and net income available to common stockholders of $54 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, compared to $0.90 per diluted share in the previous quarter and $0.15 per diluted share in the same quarter last year. Q2 adjusted EBITDA of $559 million, a 16% increase from the...

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DISH picks VMware for 5G cloud-native O-RAN

DISH selected VMware's Telco Cloud solution for its 5G, cloud-native Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN). VMware said its Telco Cloud will enable DISH to utilize software from leading vendors to optimize and accelerate its 5G network deployment. Additionally, it will provide DISH with enhanced automation, resiliency, security and flexibility. The VMware Telco Cloud provides an abstraction layer across multiple network domains and enables DISH to leverage...

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Nokia now has 83 5G deals and a 27% RAN marketshare

Citing the effects of COVID-19 as well as a sharp decline in China, Nokia reported Q2 net sales of EUR 5.092 billion, down 11% from the EUR 5.694 billion a year earlier. However, Nokia reduced the volume of low margin services business, resulting in better-than-expected profitability and significant improvement in cash generation. There was a net profit of EUR 85 million, compoared with a loss of EUR 191 million a year ago. Nokia's Optical business...

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Community Fibre to invest up to £400 million across London

Community Fibre Limited, which offers full-fibre residential and business broadband in London, announced plans to invest up to £400 million in an accelerated expansion of full-fibre broadband to one million households and businesses across London Community Fibre also confirmed that funds advised by Warburg Pincus LLC and DTCP will acquire a majority stake in the company. Existing investors include Amber Infrastructure and RPMI Railpen. Financial...

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Dell'Oro: Broadband access equipment spending to drop 7% in 2020

Global spending on broadband access equipment and CPE is expected to drop 7% in 2020, dipping to $11.4 B, before increasing 5% in 2021, according to a newly updated forecast from Dell'Oro Group. In January 2020 Dell'Oro forecasted a 5% decline in total revenue in 2020. Some highlights: Dell'Oro increased its five-year CAGR (2019-2024) from -2% from our January forecast to -0.9%. In response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, new initiatives to...

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Marvell appoints AT&T's Marachel Knight to its Board

Marvell announced the appointment of Marachel Knight, SVP of Engineering and Operations of AT&T to its board of directors. Knight's background includes over 25 years of technology leadership positions within AT&T Labs, Technology Operations and Network Planning and Engineering. She received her master's degree in information networking from Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute, and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical...

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