5G to surpass a half-billion connections by end of 2021

Global wireless 5G connections have reached 438 million by the third quarter of 2021 and are on pace to exceed 540 million by the end of the year, according to data from Omdia, said 5G Americas, the wireless industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas.Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas said, “Despite challenging times with the COVID-19 pandemic issues, 5G uptake continues at a fast pace as communications and connectivity...

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euNetworks expands LH network to Warsaw and Bratislava

euNetworks has expanded its long haul network into Poland, delivering three new routes to Warsaw. These routes deliver around 2,977km of newly lit fibre connecting Warsaw directly with Berlin and Hamburg, with the third route via Brno, supporting traffic to Prague, Bratislava and Vienna. The company says the new routes are now in service, carrying multiple terabits of customer traffic on each span.The north route is 924km long, extends from...

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Vodafone and Mavenir complete first call over containerised Open RAN

Vodafone and Mavenir have completed the first data and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call across a containerised 4G small cell Open RAN solution in a lab environment.Wind River provided its Containers as a Service (CaaS) software, part of Wind River Studio.The companies described the demonstration of a containerised solution as a major milestone in the evolution of connectivity equipment away from physical infrastructure to a digital cloud-based environment. Having...

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Frontier tests Nokia’s 25G PON

Frontier Communications  completed the U.S.’ first trial of Nokia’s 25G PON. The two companies will continue trials on Frontier’s network while planning for commercial deployment in the second half of 2022.Veronica Bloodworth, Frontier’s Chief Network Officer, said, “Successfully completing the first U.S. trial of the country’s fastest fiber broadband is a critical step in offering a competitive advantage for Frontier and our customers. We already...

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Finnish SoC Hub consortium tapes out its first design

The Finnish SoC Hub consortium, which is a collaboration between Tampere University, the government of Finland, and Nokia, has taped out its first System on Chip (SoC) design. The new Ballast chip is the first in a series of three chips. The chip will be manufactured by TSMC using its 22nm Ultra Low Leakage process, which is especially well suited for IoT and Edge devices. Ballast contains several different RISC-V CPU cores, a Digital Signal...

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Serverfarm builds hyperscale data center in Tel Aviv

Serverfarm disclosed plans for ISR3, its first hyperscale data center in Israel.ISR3, which is being developed in partnership with Israel Infrastructure Fund, will bring 9MW of critical capacity to Israel’s accelerating digital economy in the latter half of 2022.ISR3 is the first Middle East-based facility and venture for Serverfarm, whose global data center portfolio and operations span over 700 locations in 45 countries, including locations in...

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Zain Jordan to sell and leaseback 2,607 towers

Zain Group in Jordan entered into a 15-year agreement with TASC Towers to sell and leaseback the passive physical infrastructure of its 2,607 tower portfolio in Jordan. The deal is valued at US$88 million. The transaction includes an additional 223 sites transferring to TASC Towers on a managed basis. Zain Group holds a 25% minority stake in TASC Towers.The deal also includes TASC Towers managing Zain Jordan’s supporting facilities such as power...

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Megaport launches VMware SD-WAN

Megaport is now offering VMware SD-WAN on Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) to enable branch-to-cloud connectivity on Megaport’s global SDN.With VMware SD-WAN available on MVE, customers can host localised virtual SD-WAN controllers on Megaport’s global platform and reduce the distance data traverses over internet paths from branch locations to critical services in public or private clouds and even other branch locations.Once connected, VMware customers...

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Latest MIPI M-PHY spec doubles data rate to 23.32 Gbps

The MIPI Alliance, announced a major update to its MIPI M-PHY physical-layer interface for connecting the latest generation of flash memory-based storage and other high data rate applications in advanced 5G smartphones, wearables, PCs, industrial IoT, and automobiles. Version 5.0 of the M-PHY interface adds a fifth gear—"High Speed Gear 5" (HS-G5) at 23.32 Gigabits per second (Gbps) — enabling engineers to double the potential data rate per...

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