Google's Equiano subsea cable lands in Togo

Google's Equiano subsea cable, which will connect Lisbon, Portugal and Cape Town, South Africa with branching units along the west coast of Africa, will make Togo its first landing spot.Representing the State, Société d’Infrastructures Numériques (SIN), a public telecommunications asset company, has strategically partnered with CSquared, an open access wholesale broadband infrastructure company, to create a joint venture – CSquared Woezon, which...

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What's hot at OFC22? 2022 Ethernet Roadmap

Users fully expect Ethernet to work -- just to work -- even as it increases in speeds and as it enters new application areas, says Orshi Abraham, Marketing Chair, Ethernet Alliance. Multivendor interoperability is key to continued success.The 2022 Ethernet Roadmap was released at OFC...

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Equinix acquires 4 data centers from Chile's Entel

Equinix agreed to acquire four data centers from Chile's  Empresa Nacional De Telecomunicaciones (Entel) for an enterprise value of approximately US$705 million. The deal includes three data centers in Santiago, Chile and one in Lima, Peru.Charles Meyers, President and CEO, Equinix: "Latin America holds enormous potential, and our commitment to the region has exponentially grown since we entered back in 2011," said Charles Meyers, President...

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NTT demos orchestration based on ETSI's ZTM spec

NTT DOCOMO, in collaboration with NTT Com, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories (NS Labs) and NTT Network Innovation Center (NIC), has demonstrated end-to-end orchestration (E2EO) technology based on the Zero Touch Network and Service Management (ZSM) specification of ETSI, the European standardization organization. E2EO technology automates 5G network slicing to enable multiple networks to operate on common infrastructure. In the recent...

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SpaceX launches 53 more Starlink satellites

On March 19, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.This Falcon 9 first stage booster previously launched Dragon’s first crew demonstration mission, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, SXM-7, and nine Starlink missions.In a tweet,  Elon Musk noted that the launch was the heaviest Falcon 9 payload ever launched, at 16.25 metric tons.The mission...

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Dell'Oro: Double-digit growth for Service Provider router and switching in '21

The worldwide Service Provider Router and Switch market rebounded in 2021 and surpassed pre-pandemic revenue levels, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The North America region led the worldwide market expansion with solid double-digit growth.“Demand for IP routers, especially in North America, surged last year as network operators pumped up investments across a wide range of network infrastructures,” said Shin Umeda, Vice President at...

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Dell'Oro: Campus switch sales reach record levels in 2021

The worldwide Campus Switch market revenue reached a record level in the fourth quarter and the full year 2021, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Digital transformation initiatives, combined with government stimulus, propelled most of the growth in 2021. Arista, Extreme, H3C, HPE Aruba, Juniper were able to gain revenue share in 2021.“What was remarkable is that the 2021 revenue growth was broad-based across all regions, all customer...

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Brazil's Raízen picks Juniper + NEC for campus Wi-Fi

Raízen, a global leader in bio-energy solutions, has selected Juniper Networks and NEC to design and deploy anew Wi-Fi network for its headquarters in São Paulo and offices in Piracicaba, Brazil. The new network uses the Juniper Mist AI solution to dramatically streamline the IT helpdesk function for Raízen, which is one of Brazil’s largest private business groups.NEC is providing consultancy and implementation services. The new platform...

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