TIP demos Phoenix open and disaggregated transponder

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) demonstrated its Phoenix open and disaggregated transponder for the first time at the NTT R&D Forum 2021 last month.TIP's Phoenix, which a Layer 0/Layer 1 white box transponder supporting 400 Gbps/lambda, is being developed by TIP's Open Optical & Packet Transport’s (OOPT) Disaggregated Optical Systems (DOS) subgroup. This Phoenix prototype is built over a beta version of the Wistron Galileo Flex-T hardware...

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Russia's Rostelecom plans new Transit Europe – Asia backbone

Rostelecom plans to begin construction of a new fiber backbone linking Russia's western and eastern borders with the countries largest cities and connecting the major European traffic exchanges with Mongolia and China. The TEA NEXT (Transit Europe – Asia) system will also link Vladivostok to Busan, Tokyo and Hong Kong via subsea cables.Rostelecom announced a parity agreement with VEB Ventures (VEB. RF’s venture fund) each invest around RUB 6 billion...

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Ericsson Routes is Waze for connectivity for autonomous vehicles

 Ericsson has begun beta testing a new service in San Francisco that helps autonomous vehicles, drones, and other unmanned vehicles to predict wireless connectivity from multiple operators across a planned route.The new Ericsson Routes service is described as "Waze" for wireless cellular quality. Ericsson Routes provides a single integration point and a consistent prediction engine for autonomous vehicles across all their wireless service providers.The...

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AWS Region opens in Jakarta

Amazon Web Services has activated AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, providing its cloud services from data centers located in Indonesia. AWS estimates spending on the construction and operation of the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will create 24,700 direct and indirect jobs with an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in planned investment in the local economy. The Region will also add an estimated $10.9 billion (IDR$155 trillion)...

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Australia's NBN Co targets 100% Renewable Electricity

Australia's NBN Co outlined the following initial three-year roadmap Towards-Zero Carbon Ambition:Reducing its annual energy use by 25GWh by December 2025 Purchasing 100 per cent renewable electricity from December 2025 Using electric or hybrid vehicles, where suitably available, by 2030NBN Co is committed to delivering a more energy-efficient network, with over 8.3 million premises currently connected to the nbn network, and it will seek...

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Fiber Broadband Association elects 2022 Board of Directors

The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) today announced it has elected its 2022 Board of Directors. Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearfield, was elected as the new Chair of the Board for a one-year term beginning January 1, 2022.“The FBA Board of Directors plays a critical role in our effort to advance fiber deployment so that every community across North America can access high-speed reliable broadband. In 2021, our Board helped guide...

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Ericsson joins Vodafone 5G Lab

Ericsson has partnered with the new Vodafone 5G Lab in Madrid, Spain.The Vodafone 5G Lab is powered by the new Ericsson Cloud Native 5G Core. Running independently of the existing 4G network, the latency of Ericsson’s 5G Core enables network slicing, and improves the stability of the network and its performance.The companies describe the partnership as a fundamental step towards further elevating the quality of 5G in the Spanish market and creating...

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Windstream Wholesale lights new route from LA to Las Vegas

Windstream Wholesale turned up a direct route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas via its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) architecture.This new route offers a more direct, lower latency path for the Asia PAC (APAC) subsea cables landing in Los Angeles to access the growing Las Vegas data center ecosystem. With this addition, Windstream now has three routes connecting Los Angeles to data center facilities in the Las Vegas area including Databank,...

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