01/17/22 ~ Converge! Network Digest

Monday, January 17, 2022

2022 Predictions

Monday, January 17, 2022 Predictions, Silicon

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FAA speeds up approvals of Boeing and Airbus aircraft

Monday, January 17, 2022 FAA

Just days ahead of the planned activation of mid-band 5G spectrum by AT&T and Verizon, the FAA cleared some Boeing 737, 747, 757, 767, MD-10/-11 and Airbus A310, A319, A320, A321, A330 and A350 models to perform low-visibility landings at many of the airports where 5G interference is possible during certain weather conditions. This covers an estimated 45 percent of the U.S. commercial fleet where 5G C-band will be deployed on Jan. 19. The...

United Airlines statement on 5G

Monday, January 17, 2022 FAA

On Monday, January 17, United Airlines released the following statement:"The federal government’s current 5G rollout plan will have a devastating impact on aviation, negatively affecting an estimated 1.25 million United passengers, at least 15,000 flights and much-needed goods and tons of cargo traveling through more than 40 of the largest airports in the country annually. When deployed next to runways, the 5G signals could interfere with the...

Vecima demos > 8.5 Gbps down and > 6 Gbps up with DOCSIS 4.0

Monday, January 17, 2022 Charter, DOCSIS, MSO, Vecima

Vecima Networks and Charter Communications havedemonstrated greater than 8.5 Gbps downstream and 6 Gbps upstream on hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) cable plant. The demo used DOCSIS 4.0 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for Remote MACPHY Device (RMD) and cable modem solutions, which conforms to CableLabs DOCSIS 4.0 frequency division duplexing (FDD) specifications."This provides proof that our network is capable of offering multi-gig speeds bi-directionally,”...

Italy's WINDTRE picks Nokia for new optical backbone.

Monday, January 17, 2022 Nokia

Nokia has been selected by WINDTRE to deploy a new, high performance optical backbone across Italy.The DWDM deployment will leverage Nokia’s fifth generation PSE-V super-coherent (PSE-Vs) chipset to support programmable line rates up to 600G. The Nokia PSE-V Super Coherent DSP implements second generation probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) with continuous baud rate adjustment, and supports higher wavelength capacities over longer distances...

Equinix announces its 10th data center in Paris

Monday, January 17, 2022 Data Centers, Equinix, France

Equinix unveiled plans for its 10th data center in Paris. The new site, named PA10, will be part of the Equinix Saint-Denis campus. Phase 1 of PA10 is due to provide 3,775 m2 of colocation space and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Upon completion of all planned phases, the full site is expected to generate 5,775 m2 of colocation space with ~2,250 cabinets.PA10 is targeted to utilize 100% renewable energy. New sustainability technology employed...

Digicel Tonga confirms two separate undersea cable breaks

Monday, January 17, 2022 Digicel, Outage, Subsea, Tonga

Digicel reported that its preliminary technical fault investigation has established that there are two separate undersea cable breaks. The first between TCL cable landing station Sopu, Tongatapu and FINTEL cable landing station in Suva, Fiji. The international cable break is approximately 37km offshore from Tonga. The second cable break is on the domestic cable which is near the area of the recent volcanic activity. The company has engaged the cable...

Samsung debuts flagship Exynos 2200 mobile processor

Monday, January 17, 2022 Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co. announced mass production of its flagship Exynos 2200 premium mobile processor produced using 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) technology. The Exynos 2200 mobile processor leverages AMD RDNA 2 architecture based Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU) with hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing on Mobile for gaming. “Built on the most advanced 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography)...

Johnson Controls acquires FogHorn for industrial IoT

Monday, January 17, 2022 Foghorn, Mergers and Acquisitions

Johnson Controls, which supplies builiding technology for healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums and industrial usage, has acquired FogHorn, a Silicon Valley start-up offering Edge AI software for the industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT). Financial terms were not disclosed."Value is increasingly being created by applying intelligence at the edge-device level to create real-time, secure, actionable insights," said Johnson...

Telenor to sell its stake in Myanmar's Wave Money

Monday, January 17, 2022 Telenor

Telenor will sell its 51 percent share of Digital Money Myanmar Limited (“Wave Money”) for US$53 million to Yoma MFS Holdings Pte. Ltd, a subsidiary of Yoma Strategic.Wave Money is a leading provider of money transfer and digital payment solutions in Myanmar. The company was launched in November 2016 as a joint venture between Yoma Bank and Telenor Group, after the fintech pioneer was awarded a license to become the first non-bank institution to...