AT&T signs with Ericsson for 5G RAN over C-Band

AT&T awarded a five-year contract to Ericsson covering the rollout of 5G over its recently acquired C-band spectrum and the launch of 5G Standalone (SA). Financial terms were not disclosedAT&T has stated a goal of covering 70-75 million people with 5G over C-Band by end of 2022 with plans to reach 200 million by end of 2023.The new contract covers the Ericsson Radio System portfolio, which includes the Advanced Antenna System, Advanced RAN...

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Video: Optics is Easy - the data center perspective

https://youtu.be/mhfFx4_h_74In this 15 minute video, Brad Booth, Chair and President, the Consortium for On-board Optics (COBO), as well as Principal Network Architect, Azure Hardware & Architecture at Microsoft, gives his perspective on how data center architecture and energy efficiency requirements are driving a new way of thinking about network connections.Presented virtually at this year's ECOC 20...

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LF Networking adds Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestrator project

The Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestrator (EMCO) project will join LF Networking (LFN).EMCO aims to create a universal control plane that helps organizations to securely connect and deploy workloads across public clouds, private clouds and edge locations, with end to end inter-application communication enabled. Intel seeded code for the project. Aarna Networks is also a contributor.“As the industry continues to evolve with even greater demands on networks,...

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Crehan: 400 GbE port shipments to exceed 10 million this year

Shipments of 400 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data center switch ports are on track to exceed 10 million this year, more than triple the prior year's shipments, according to an upcoming report from Crehan Research Inc. In correlation with this strong 400GbE data center switch ramp, 50Gbps SerDes shipments are surpassing 25Gbps SerDes shipments, to become the mostly widely deployed data center switch SerDes lane speed.“The 400GbE data center switch...

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Openreach awards 3-year contract to Prysmian for full fibre rollout

Openreach awarded a new three-year contract to Prysmian Group to support its updated Full Fibre broadband build plan which will be fundamental to the UK Government achieving its target of delivering ‘gigabit capable broadband’ to 85 per cent of UK by 2025.Openreach has recently undertaken a live trial using the double overblow installation method developed by Prysmian Group. This Karona installation technique enables the installation of high density...

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MIPI Alliance doubles performance of automotive SerDes to 32 Gbps

The MIPI Alliance completed development work on A-PHY v1.1, the next version of the automotive serializer-deserializer (SerDes) physical-layer interface. Version 1.1 will double the maximum available downlink data rate from 16 Gbps to 32 Gbps and include other enhancements to help automotive OEMs and their suppliers implement high-performance image sensors and displays in next-generation vehicles. The specification is undergoing member review,...

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Optica: Cities are the Key to the Climate Solution

 The Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring (GEMM) Initiative, an international project of Optica (formerly OSA) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), is inviting city leaders, policymakers, scientists and the business community to discover how cost-effective technologies for monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollution emissions in urban environments can measure and predict the impact of climate policy and planning decisions.Recent...

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