2021 OCP Global Summit - the next 10 years

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Open Compute Project, an organization that has advanced the cause of "vanity free" infrastructure for cloud providers. The mission is broadening and the next 10 years will see advances in additional domains. Here is a 2-minute perspective from Rebecca Weekly, Board Chair, Open Compute Project.https://youtu.be/xeU8WsVscAsFor more video interviews with industry experts, visit: https://nextgeninfra....

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Meta’s Minipack2 is powered by Broadcom's Tomahawk 4 silicon

Broadcom confirmed that Meta is now deploying the 25.6 Tbps StrataXGS Tomahawk 4 switch in its data center network fabric.The Tomahawk4 is now shipping in high volume in Meta’s Minipack2 platform.“Broadcom is pleased to support Meta and its ecosystem partners on the transition to a leading-edge 25.6Tbps networking fabric,” said Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager, Core Switching Group, Broadcom. “Our multi-year collaborative effort...

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Broadcom samples 100G/lane Optical PAM-4 DSP PHYs

Broadcom announced its 100G/lane optical PAM-4 DSP PHY families with integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and laser driver, the Jesko BCM8741x and Gemera BCM8781x, optimized for 400G DR4/FR4 and 800G DR8/2xFR4 module applications, respectively. The new, highly integrated PHYs, which are built on Broadcom’s proven 112G PAM-4 DSP platforms, can be used to power 7W 400G DR4/FR4 and sub 14W 800G DR8/2xFR4 optical modules.Highlights400G and...

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Inspur and Samsung build open storage solution for OCP

Inspur Information, which ranks among the world’s top 3 server manufacturers, and Samsung announced a Poseidon V2 E3.x reference system for the Open Compute Project community.This product adopted composable architecture to maximize the benefits of EDSFF E3.x form factor.  Poseidon V2 system can accommodate not only the PCIe Gen5 SSDs but also various devices like AI/ML accelerators or CXL Memory Expanders.  Data center users can configure...

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Windstream Wholesale cites progress with 400G

Windstream Wholesale  is expanding its 400 Gigabit wave offerings to meet rapidly growing customer demand for high-bandwidth solutions. The carrier cited several milestones:Windstream and Infinera were the first to successfully demonstrate 400 Gig client-side services in April 2020 with commercially available ultra-efficient 400GbE-LR8 QSFP-DD compact pluggable interfaces.In February 2021, Windstream announced that it had deployed 400 Gbps single-wavelength...

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LINX installs Nokia's 7750s routers with 400GE around London

LINX, the UK’s leading interconnection and peering community, will install Nokia's 400GE IP edge routing platforms to connect its 950+ membership. The installation includes Nokia's 7750 SR-7s edge routers deployed by LINX in three locations around London, providing greater bandwidth and higher density than its existing solution.The platforms will allow LINX to support services at speeds of up to 400GE initially with the ability to seamlessly...

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Rockley Photonics is working with Caltech on health monitoring

Rockley Photonics has kicked off a research collaboration with Caltech’s Sensing to Intelligence (S2I) Center that will focus on the development of next-generation solutions that combine advanced sensors with artificial intelligence. The S2I Center seeks to bring together two typically isolated disciplines — the field of sensing and imaging and the field of computation and algorithms — by adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach. The...

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Samsung announces 2.5F Hybrid-Substrate Cube packaging

Samsung Electronics introduced Hybrid-Substrate Cube (H-Cube) technology, its latest 2.5D packaging solution specialized for semiconductors for HPC, AI, data center, and networking chips that require high-performance and large-area packaging technology.2.5D packaging enables logic chips or high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to be placed on top of a silicon interposer in a small form factor. Samsung said its H-Cube technology features a hybrid substrate...

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Telia deploys Nokia's 5G SA core first in Finland

Telia has deployed Nokia's 5G Standalone (SA) Core network in Finland enabling advanced 5G services like slicing.Nokia is also in the process of rolling out its 5G SA Core for Telia in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.The rollout in Finland includes Nokia’s cloud packet core and registers, which allows subscriber data to be consolidated into a common repository using a distributed and flexible architecture. Telia is also using Nokia’s...

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Lockheed Martin and Keysight test 5G.MIL for aerospace/defense

Lockheed Martin and Keysight Technologies are actively collaborating on a 5G.MIL testbed that Lockheed Martin teams will use to advance 5G capabilities for multiple aerospace and defense applications. The testbed, which reached initial operational capability in July, will help Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL teams quickly verify interoperability and performance with a wide range of 5G assets and simulate reliable and secure communications. Since that...

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Backblaze prices IPO

Backblaze, which offers a storage cloud platform, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 6,250,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $16.00 per share, for gross proceeds to Backblaze of $100,000,000, before underwriting discounts, commissions, and offering expenses payable by Backblaze. In addition, the underwriters of the initial public offering have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 937,500...

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