TAT-14 subsea cable to be removed following decommissioning

TAT-14, which is a consortium transatlantic cable system that entered service in 2001, is being decommissioned and removed. Commercial service on the TAT-14 system ended in December 2020.Subsea Environmental Services and Red Penguin Associates (advisors) have been awarded the contract to decommission TAT-14. This includes removal and recycling of shore-ends in the US, UK, France, Denmark and The Netherlands as well as the deep-water segments...

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Molex ramps up its copper and optical interconnect portfolio

Molex is scaling global deployments of its high-speed copper and optical interconnects and modules, including with a new  112G Active Electrical Cable (AEC) and ramping the manufacturing ot its 100G and 400G transceiver line. CopperMolex has added the new 112G Active Electrical Cables (AEC) to its line of copper interconnect solutions that extend link reach at higher data rates. AEC increases reach up to five meters without requiring optical...

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University of Surrey: silicon could be a photonics game-changer

Silicon is an outstanding candidate for developing new types of devices for controling multiple light beams, according to new research from the University of Surrey, suggesting new possibilities for the production of lasers and displays.The researchers found that silicon possesses the strongest nonlinearity for manipulating laser beams – for example, changing their colour. Ben Murdin, co-author of the study and Professor of Physics at the University...

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Nokia's financial performance improves in Q1 2021

Nokia reported Q1 2021 sales of EUR 5.076 billion, up 3% over the same period last year, and up by 9% at constant currency. Gross margin rose to 37.9% from 35.3% a year earlier. There was an operating profit of EUR 431 million, compared with a loss of EUR 76 million a year ago.Pekka Lundmark, president and CEO of Nokia, comments: "We have delivered a robust start to the year with strong net sales, operating margin and cash flow. Today’s results demonstrate...

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American Tower sales rise 8.3% year-over-year

American Tower reported total Q1 2021 revenue of $2,159 million, up 8.3% compared to the same period last year. Net income amounted to $652 million, up 56% compared to last year.Tom Bartlett, American Tower’s Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We began 2021 by entering into the Telxius Towers transaction, which we expect to be transformational for our European business. Our global teams followed that by delivering a strong quarter, highlighted by...

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NeoPhotonics posts Q1 sales of $60.9M, cites growing demand for 400G

NeoPhotonics reported Q1 2021 revenue of $60.9 million, down 11% quarter-over-quarter and 37% year-over-year. The gross margin was 21.9%, down from 22.7% in the prior quarter. There was a Non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.15, compared to a Non-GAAP net loss of $0.14 per share in the prior quarter.The company said sales of products for 400G and above applications grew 134% year-over-year. Also, during the quarter, NeoPhotonics announced the successful...

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Wasabi scores $112M for cloud storage that's cheaper than AWS S3

Wasabi, a start-up based in Boston, announced $112 million in Series C funding for its cloud-based, object storage service.Wasabi is offering a cloud storage service claimed to be 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, with zero fees for egress or API requests.Wasabi said its revenue and storage under management has also tripled in the last year with deployed storage recently passing one exabyte. The company has 22,000 customers worldwide, and Wasabi’s channel...

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Vectra AI raises $130 million for automated threat detection/response

Vectra AI, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced $130 million in new funding for its work in automated cyber threat detection and response. The company's mission is "to see and stop threats before they become breaches."“Over the past year, we have witnessed a continuous series of the most impactful and widespread cyberattacks in history. To protect their employees and digital assets, our customers require security solutions that are...

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Altibox deploys 800G with Ciena’s Waveserver 5

Altibox, one of the largest regional operators in Norway and Denmark, is utilizing Ciena’s Waveserver 5 coherent optical solution, including its 6500 flexible grid colorless, directionless, contentionless open line system, to create a robust and flexible network for cloud providers, global webscale providers and large enterprises at speeds up to 800G.Ciena’s coherent optical solution enables Altibox Carrier to support new high bandwidth routes that...

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IBM to acquire Turbonomic for app performance assurance

IBM agreed to acquire Turbonomic, an Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider based in Boston, MA. Financial terms were not disclosed. Media reports valued the deal at between $1.5 billion and $2.0 billion.IBM said the acquisition will provide businesses with full stack application observability and management to assure performance and minimize costs using AI to optimize resources – such as...

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NSF launches Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems program

The U.S. National Science Foundation unveiled a new Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems (RINGS) program to accelerate research in areas that will potentially have significant impact on emerging Next Generation (NextG) wireless and mobile communication, networking, sensing, and computing systems, along with global-scale services. The focus is on greatly improving the resiliency of such networked systems among other performance metricsCentral...

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5G for 12GHz Coalition lobbies the FCC

A new "5G for 12GHz Coalition" has been established to promote the 500 MHz of available capacity in the12 GHz bandfor 5G.The group, which is backed by more than 20 prominent public interest groups, trade associations and companies, is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to act swiftly and modernize decades-old rules to allow the critical capacity in the12 GHz spectrum band to be utilized for 5G. “America has a historic opportunity...

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Huawei's Q1 revenue drops 16.5% year-on-year

Huawei reported Q1 2021 revenue of CNY152.2 billion (US$23.17 billio) in revenue, a 16.5% decrease year-on-year. The company said its network business maintained steady growth, while its consumer business revenue declined, in part as a result of selling the Honor smart device brand in November 2020. Huawei's net profit margin was up 3.8 percentage points year-on-year at 11.1% – the result of the company's ongoing efforts to improve quality of...

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Equinix: 2021 to be most active build year so far

Equinix reported quarterly revenue of $1.596 billion, up 10% compared to the same quarter last year, or 7% on a normalized and constant currency basis, representing the company's 73rd consecutive quarter of revenue growth. Net income was $156 million, a 207% increase over the previous quarter, primarily due to strong operating performance and lower acquisition and debt redemption costs, or $1.74 per share, a 205% increase over the previous quarter.Equinix...

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UK completes spectrum auction for 700 MHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz

Ofcom completed the assignment stage for its recent auction of 700 MHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz bands in the UK.  Here are the results:EE Limited – 723-733 MHz and 778-788 MHz;738-758 MHz; and 3680-3720 MHz.Hutchison 3G UK Limited – 713-723 MHz and 768-778 MHz.Telefónica UK Limited – 703-713 MHz and 758-768 MHz; and 3760-3800 MHz.Vodafone Limited – 3720-3760 MHz.Winners of spectrum in the 3.6-3.8 GHz band also had the opportunity to negotiate their spectrum...

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Global Unichip simulates complex switch with hundreds of 112G PAM4 lanes

Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is using the Cadence Clarit 3D Solver in its simulation workflow to design a complex network switch with hundreds of 112G PAM4 long-reach (LR) lanes. Cadence said the efficiency of the Clarity 3D Solver required no partitioning of the design, thereby eliminating any concern of inaccurate results attributed to a fractured approach. On top of the “no partitioning needed” benefit, the GUC engineers achieved a five-fold...

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MaxLinear posts record sales of $209 million

 MaxLinear reported quarterly net revenue of $209.4 million, up 8% sequentially, and up 238% year-on-year. GAAP gross margin was 53.4%, compared to 42.7% in the prior quarter, and 49.6% in the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP income from operations was 24% of revenue, compared to 19% in the prior quarter, and 13% in the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.55, compared to diluted earnings per share of $0.39 in the prior quarter,...

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EdgeConneX scales out footprint in 6 cities

EdgeConneX announced the expansion of its edge data center platform in several key North American markets. Initially, EdgeConneX will add nearly 20MWs of new capacity across its existing footprint in the Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago markets. The expansions will allow major service providers around the world to scale their local cloud, content, network, and other offerings in these markets, empowering them to meet the growing...

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Disney+ streaming powered by AWS

The Walt Disney Company is leveraging AWS for the global rollout of Disney+, one of the largest online streaming video services in the world having surpassed 100 million subscribers only 16 months after launch in November 2019. AWS is the preferred cloud provider.Disney+ is expanding its use of AWS’s services to include more than 50 technologies, such as machine learning, database, storage, content delivery, serverless, and analytics. For example,...

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Equinix expands on ramps to Microsoft Azure

Equinix is expanding private network access to Microsoft Azure in six new global markets, including Berlin, Bogotá, Canberra, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro and Seoul. The expanded Azure ExpressRoute service provides enterprises with direct, on-demand network access to a variety of Azure services, including Azure VMware Solution.With this expansion, private cloud on-ramps to Azure ExpressRoute are now available in 32 Equinix metros.Azure VMware Solution...

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SpaceX completes 25th Starlink launch

SpaceX successfully launched its next batch of 60 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster successfully landed on the drone ship in the Atlantic.It was the 25th Starlink launch mission and the 11th mission of 2021 all of which used reflown boosters. The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster used for this launch previously supported launch of GPS III Space Vehicle 03, Turksat 5A, and four Starlink...

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Factorial Energy emerges from stealth with solid-state battery for EVs

Factorial Energy, a start-up based in Woburn, Massachusetts, emerged from stealth to announce its plans for a 40 Amp-hour solid-state battery cell for electric vehicles (EVs) and other applications. The Factorial Electrolyte System Technology (FEST™) is a proprietary solid electrolyte material said to be safer than conventional lithium-ion technology, replacing the combustible liquid electrolyte with a safer, more stable solid-state electrolyte...

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Opsera raises $15 million for its DevOps orchestration

Opsera, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $15 million in Series A funding for its orchestration platform for DevOps. Opsera said its self-service, no-code DevOps orchestration platform helps engineers to provision or integrate their CI/CD tools of choice from a common architectural framework. This enables them tobuild declarative pipelines for a variety of use cases including SDLC (software delivery lifecycle), IaC (infrastructure...

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NTT and Fujitsu focus on silicon photonics manufacturing

 NTT Corporation (NTT) and Fujitsu Limited announced a strategic alliance focused on innovations for the “Realization of a Sustainable Digital Society,” including the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative.A key focus is on establishing photonics-electronics convergence manufacturing technology. Key points:NTT Electronics Corporation (NEL), which develops hardware products utilizing NTT R&D’ s advanced device technologies,...

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NTT launches 400 Gbps service

 NTT West and NTT East are now offering a 400 Gbps "High-speed Broadband Access Service" intended for data center connection and transmission / reception of big data sets, including video. The service provides high-speed, large-capacity bandwidth-guaranteed Ethernet communication by limiting communication between two "Point to Point" bases specified by the customer (limited to communication within the same prefecture). https://www...

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VMware Telco Cloud aims for O-RAN

VMware is extending its Telco Cloud Platform from the core to now virtualize radio access network (RAN) functions based on an open RAN architecture.VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN lets network operators deploy and  run virtualized network functions (VNFs) and containerized network functions (CNFs) with support for Intel FlexRAN software reference architecture.The platform consists of:VMware vSphere ESXi. Optimized for the deployment and management...

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Microsoft Azure racks up 50% yoy growth

 Microsoft reported revenue of $41.7 billion for the quarter ended 31-March-2021, up 19% yoy. Net income was $15.5 billion GAAP and $14.8 billion non-GAAP, representing an increase of 44% and 38%, respectively. Diluted earnings per share was $2.03 GAAP and $1.95 non-GAAP, an increase of 45% and 39%,respectively.“Over a year into the pandemic, digital adoption curves aren’t slowing down. They’re accelerating, and it’s just the beginning,” said...

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Google Cloud hits revenue of $4 billion with a $1 billion operating loss

Citing elevated consumer activity online and broad based growth in advertiser revenue, Alphabet reported total revenues of $55.3 billion in the first quarter, up 34% yoy. Net income amounted to $17.930 billion for the quarter. Google Cloud revenue amounted to $4.047 billion, up from $2.777 billion a year ago. There was a $1 billion loss for the quarter. The company said it remains focused on revenue growth for Google Cloud. Google Cloud...

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Juniper posts Q1 revenue of $1.074 billion, up 8% YoY

 Juniper Networks reported Q1 2021 net revenues of $1,074.4 million, an increase of 8% year-over-year and a decrease of 12% sequentially.GAAP net loss was $31.1 million, a decrease of 252% year-over-year and 201% sequentially, resulting in diluted loss per share of $0.10. Non-GAAP net income was $98.5 million, an increase of 28% year-over-year, and a decrease of 46% sequentially, resulting in non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.30.“We...

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A10 Networks reported Q1 2021 revenue of $54.8 million, up 2.0% year-over-year. GAAP gross margin was 77.2% and non-GAAP gross margin was 78.9%. GAAP net income was $2.7 million, or $0.03 per share, compared with a net loss of $(297,000), or $(0.00) per share in the first quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP net income was $9.4 million, or $0.12 per share compared with non-GAAP net income of $4.0 million, or $0.05 per share in the first quarter of 2020.Deferred...

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ADVA intros outdoor PTP grandmaster clock for 5G fronthaul

ADVA introduced an ultra-compact outdoor PTP grandmaster clock with multi-band GNSS receiver and integrated antenna for delivering nanosecond precision needed for 5G fronthaul and other emerging time-sensitive applications. . ADVA says its new OSA 5405-MB synchronization device ensures timing accuracy by eliminating the impact of ionospheric delay variation. The multi-band GNSS receiver and integrated antenna enable the OSA 5405-MB to meet PRTC-B...

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UK's Network Rail invites private investment in railway fibre

Network Rail, which manages most of the railway network in Great Britain, is seeking up to £1bn in private sector investment to pay for upgrades in its trackside fibre optic cable network.Network Rail operates over 16,000 kilometres of data cables next to the railway. The cable infrastructure delivers data essential to running the railway such as signalling for trains, trackside sensors, CCTV, and internet for trains, railway depots and offices....

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Stanford develops device for fine tuning the frequencies of individual photons

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new photonic architecture capable of fine-tuning the frequencies of each individual photon in a stream of light. Potential applications could include optical neural networks."The structure consists of a low-loss wire for light (the black line below) carrying a stream of photons that pass by like so many cars on a busy throughway. The photons then enter a series of rings (orange), like the off-ramps...

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Kaloom delivers UPF to Telenor’s multivendor 5G SA core

Telenor has assembled a multi-vendor, 5G core environment consisting of best of breed Network Functions from Oracle, Casa-Systems, Enea and Kaloom, all running on Red Hat's Openshift Kubernetes platform.Kaloom, along with its partner MBUZZ Europe, confirmed that it has provided its 5G packet core User Plane Function (UPF) within Telenor’s larger ecosystem of integrated partner solutions in a unique cloud-native trial to gauge the readiness of cloud-native...

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Building a cloud-native, multivendor 5G SA mobile core

 Telenor is building a cloud-native, multivendor 5G Stand Alone (SA) core built on Red Hat OpenShift.In this video, Hitendra Sonny Soni,  SVP Worldwide Sales & Marketing at Kaloom, talks about Telenor's proof-of-concept trial with Kaloom’s 5G packet core User Plane Function (UPF)  offering.https://youtu.be/a9LMBDpewUUVideo: It takes a Village to Build the EdgeSunday, October 25, 2020  Video  The forces of cloud-native...

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