Google's Firmina cable to link North and South America

Google announced plans to build a 12-fiber pair subsea cable linking North and South America via the Atlantic.The Firmina cable system, which will be designed, manufactured and installed by SubCom, will run from the East coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil and Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Firmina system will use SubCom's 18kV power technology, which will enable Firmina to be...

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Avicena develops highly parallel optical interconnect for chips

Avicena, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, unveiled a highly parallel optical interconnect technology targeting up to 10 meters reach for chip-to-chip interconnects in distributed computing, processor-to-memory disaggregation, and other advanced computing applications. Avicena's LightBundle is based on arrays of novel GaN high-speed micro-emitters, leveraging the microLED display manufacturing ecosystem, and is fully compatible...

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Corning showcases fiber innovations

Corning is showcasing its new fiber and cable innovations at this week's virtual OFC. Highlights:MiniXtend cable line. This 192-fiber micro cable with binderless FastAccess® technology will leverage Corning’s new SMF-28 Contour fiber with 190-micron outer diameter. The compact MiniXtend XD cable provides installers with greater flexibility in tighter spces without sacrificing fiber density or deployment speed – enabling 33% more fibers per duct compared...

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AWS launches Proton app delivery service for containers

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of AWS Proton, an application delivery service that makes it easier for customers to provision, deploy, and monitor microservices for container and serverless applications. With AWS Proton, a customer’s infrastructure team creates standard application stacks defining the architecture, infrastructure resources, CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) pipeline, and observability...

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Xilinx debuts Versal AI Edge series processors

Xilinx introduced the Versal AI Edge series processors, boasting 4X the AI performance-per-watt versus GPUs and 10X greater compute density versus previous-generation adaptive SoCs.Xilinx is positioning the new Versal AI Edge adaptive compute acceleration platforms (ACAPs) for a range of applications including: automated driving with the highest levels of functional safety, collaborative robotics, predictive factory and healthcare systems, and multi-mission...

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Samsung announces 8nm RF chip architecture for 5G

Samsung Electronics introduced its newest radio frequency (RF) technology based on 8-nanometer (nm) process.Samsung’s 8nm RF process technology is the latest addition to an already broad portfolio of RF-related solutions, including 28nm- and 14nm-based RF. The company notes shiptment of more than 500 million mobile RF chips for premium smartphones since 2017.Samsung has developed a unique architecture exclusive to 8nm RF named RFextremeFET (RFeFET)...

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Marcatel deploys 600G Long-haul in Mexico with Ciena

Marcatel, a telecommunications carrier based in Mexico, is deploying Ciena’s coherent optical technology to support a new network connecting Querétaro, Mexico, to McAllen, Texas. The network, which serves content delivery providers and wholesale carriers, allows Marcatel to offer low-latency, high-capacity data center interconnect (DCI) services at speeds up to 600Gbps across long distances.“Marcatel has long been a pioneer in the networking industry...

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Amazon activates its 3rd Availability Zone in the Beijing with Sinnet

Amazon Web Services is adding a third Availability Zone (AZ) to the China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet.Fow AWS, an AZ encompasses one or more discrete data centers in separate facilities, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity. With this launch, both AWS Regions in China offer three A...

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MACOM and MaxLinear pair PAM4 DSPs and 100G/lane TIAs

MACOM and MaxLinear announced a collaboration to assure interoperability of MaxLinear’s PAM4 DSPs and MACOM’s 100G/lane transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) for 100G/lambda applications. The collaboration includes pairing the MxL93516, MaxLinear’s second-generation 100G Snowmass DSP, with MACOM’s low power MATA-05817 100G TIA to achieve exceptional sensitivity and a low BER floor. This configuration is ideal for 100G-DR1/FR1/LR1 QSFP28 applications...

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Go!Foton offers "Any Density” optical patch panel

 Go!Foton announced the general availability of NEMO (Network Enhanced Manageable Optics), its lightweight patch panel. Powered by PEACOC, the company’s flagship fiber management platform which introduced spreadable adapters to fiber connectivity management, NEMO targets traditional bulkhead-style fiber panels and enables substantially higher port counts in any fixed space when compared with legacy installations.“NEMO’s spreadable adapters allow...

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Riverbed appoints Dan Smoot as President and CEO

Riverbed appointed Dan Smoot as President and CEO.Smoot, who has more than 30 years of experience holding top leadership roles including at Salesforce, Cisco and VMware, joined Riverbed in June 2018. At Riverbed, he has held several executive leadership roles, including most recently COO and leading the company’s Worldwide Sales, Channels and Alliances, Sales Operations and Customer Experience teams.Smoot was previously Executive Vice President of...

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