AWS pursues Local Zones strategy to cut latency

 AWS announced the availability of Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami to serve latency-sensitive and throughput-sensitive workloads. The first AWS Local Zone was previously opened in Los Angeles. AWS has now announced plans to open an additional 12 Local Zones in 2021 in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle.Currently, AWS spans 77 Availability Zones...

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Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength now available in eight cities

Verizon has activated its 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength service in Las Vegas, its eighth mobile edge computing location.  Verizon and AWS announced their partnership at AWS re:Invent in 2019 and have since launched mobile edge computing (MEC) capabilities in Atlanta, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and Washington, DC, with plans to add two additional cities by year end.Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength...

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Measuring the latency of AWS Wavelength on Verizon 5G

AvidThink recently performed a series of basic throughput and latency tests on AWS Wavelength on Verizon’s network: Part 1 - https://avidthink.com/analysis/aws-wavelength-verizon-real-world-perspective/ Part 2 - https://avidthink.com/analysis/aws-wavelength-verizon-real-world-perspectives-part-2/ In this video, Roy Chua, founder and principal of AvidThink, and Jim Carroll, Editor of Converge! Network Digest, discuss the test methodology...

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Aqua Comms activates AEC-2 transatlantic cable

Aqua Comms activated AEC-2 (America Europe Connect-2), the company’s second Trans-Atlantic subsea cable system and complementing its existing AEC-1 (America Europe Connect-1) cable, which went Ready for Service in 2016. AEC-2 connects New Jersey, U.S.A to Denmark, and is a wholly diverse and resilient new Trans-Atlantic subsea route, doubling fibre connectivity between North America and Denmark making it the first new subsea system directly...

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 brings 3rd gen 5G modem, 6th gen processor

Qualcomm previewed its new flagship - the Snapdragon 888 - featuring its 3rd generation X60 5G Modem-RF System with global band coverage and a 6th generation AI Engine operating at an astonishing 26 tera operations per second (TOPS).The 5G modem operates in mmWave and sub-6 across all major bands worldwide, and it brings support for 5G carrier aggregation, global multi-SIM, stand alone, non-stand alone, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing.The new 6th generation...

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Salesforce's $27.7B acquisition of Slack brings enterprise communications tools

Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack in a deal valued at approximately $27.7 billion ($26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share).Slack’s enterprise communications platform integrates with more than 2,400 apps that people use to collaborate, communicate and get work done. The companies plan to integrate Slack's enterprise communication tools into every Salesforce Cloud. This will make Slack into the new interface...

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SSE Enterprise Telecoms selects Infinera’s XTM for UK expansion

SSE Enterprise Telecoms, one of the UK’s leading connectivity providers, has selected Infinera’s XTM Series for the second phase of its UK-wide network expansion. SSE Enterprise Telecoms operates a 20,000km private telecoms network and 15 data centres that span the UK and offers a range of connectivity solutions including leading edge SD-WAN, Ethernet, Optical and dark fibre services.With Infinera’s XTM Series, SSE Enterprise Telecoms leverages...

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AWS to deploy Intel's Gaudi AI accelerators in EC2 instances

AWS will begin offering EC2 instances with up to eight of Intel's Habana Gaudi accelerators for machine learning workloads.Gaudi accelerators are specifically designed for training deep learning models for workloads that include natural language processing, object detection and machine learning training, classification, recommendation and personalization.“We are proud that AWS has chosen Habana Gaudi processors for its forthcoming EC2 training instances....

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HPE returns to pre-pandemic levels of $7.2 billion, relocates to Texas

 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) reported revenue of $7.2 billion for the 4th quarter of its fiscal year, up 6% from the prior quarter and flat from the prior-year period. GAAP was $0.12, above the previously provided outlook of $0.02 to $0.06 per share. Non-GAAP was $0.37, above the previously provided outlook of $0.32 to $0.36 per share.“Hewlett Packard Enterprise finished the year with a very strong performance,” said Antonio Neri, president...

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ADTRAN expands its access routing portfolio

ADTRAN introduced two access routers for fiber-based IP connectivity to the enterprise.The NetVanta 3148 and 4148 expand on ADTRAN’s suite of NetVanta access routers by combining routing and switching capabilities for both copper and fiber into VoIP-ready platforms. Routing performance and eSBC capacity vary among the new routers, providing flexible and scalable options for managed service providers and their customers. The NetVanta 3148 supports...

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