Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to build

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is expanding with 11 new compute, networking, and storage services and capabilities that enable customers to run their workloads faster and more securely at lower costs. “OCI continues to break the rules in the cloud, helping customers run their workloads faster, more securely, and more economically,” said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Customers can build cloud native...

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Yamaichi and JAE develop 112Gbps PAM4 cable

Yamaichi Electronics Co. and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry have jointly developed a prototype, high-speed jumper cable interconnect product, which supports the 112Gbps PAM4.Yamaichi is a supplier of of high speed connectors for data center networking. JAE offers connector and cable harness products for the wide range of market segments including 5G data networking market. This interconnect solution has been designed with a compact connector...

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Tarana raises $170M for fixed wireless in unlicensed spectrum

Tarana Wireless, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, announced $170 million in new funding at a $1 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Axon Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Prime Movers Lab. Also participating were Michigan State Pension Fund, I Squared Capital, and two other large, industry-leading institutional investors.Tarana also announced that after commercial launch in late 2021 of its G1 platform, the company is on track to deliver...

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GBI deploys Infinera’s ICE Optical Engines

Gulf Bridge International (GBI), a global cloud, connectivity, and content enabler, deployed Infinera’s Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE) technology across its submarine and terrestrial networks serving the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.  The upgrade has enabled GBI to launch new initiatives like its Capacity Protection Program and prepare for major events like the World Cup scheduled to take place in Qatar later this year.Infinera’s...

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GigeNET deploys ADVA FSP 3000 open optical transport

GigeNET has deployed ADVA's FSP 3000 open optical transport technology to meet growing enterprise cloud service demand across the Chicago metropolitan area.GigeNET’s new DCI infrastructure features full redundancy and optical path protection for enhanced resilience and availability. It’s built on ADVA FSP 3000 open optical transport technology.“We’ve worked in tight collaboration with GigeNET to deliver a fast and reliable DCI solution that perfectly...

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Spectro Cloud raises $40M for Kubernetes management platform.

Spectro Cloud, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced $40 million in Series B funding for its Kubernetes (K8s) management platform.Spectro Cloud’s next-generation Palette Kubernetes management platform delivers full-stack lifecycle management. That includes any combination of new and existing Kubernetes clusters, be they virtualized or bare metal data centers, public clouds or edge locations.Spectro Cloud announced its Real Metal...

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T-Mobile Ventures invests in SignalWire for APIs

T-Mobile Ventures has made an equity investment in SignalWire, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, SignalWire offers APIs and SDKs that enable developers to reach <50ms latency in large-scale video and voice applications. Its APIs align  with the low latency, high speeds, and broad national coverage of T-Mobile's 5G network. T-Mobile, the first U.S. operator to invest in SignalWire, joins Deutsche Telekom and others collaborating...

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5G forecast: 1.3 Billion by Year-End 2022

According to the most recent data from Omdia, the world added 303 million 5G connections year over year, representing a 139% increase from 218 million to 521 million, and sequentially 19% growth quarter over quarter from 437 million in Q3 2021 to 521 million in Q4 2021. According to Omdia’s forecast, 5G is expected to double to 1.3 billion connections in 2022, nearly double again in 2023 to 2 billion connections, and reach 4.8 billion by the end...

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Dell'Oro: SASE hit 37% growth in 2021

The convergence of WAN enterprise networking and security fueled strong growth in SASE related networking and security technologies, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group, with the overall growth rate hitting 37%..“The pandemic made remote work and cloud-based applications necessary, and by doing so, accelerated the obsolescence of the classic hub-and-spoke networking model,” said Mauricio Sanchez, Research Director, Network Security, and...

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Motorola Solutions acquires TETRA Ireland

Motorola Solutions has acquired TETRA Ireland Communications Limited, the provider of Ireland’s National Digital Radio Service (NDRS). Financial terms were not disclosed.TETRA Ireland delivers mission-critical voice and data land mobile radio (LMR) communications to thousands of first responders and frontline workers from national security and enforcement agencies, health and emergency services, state utilities and volunteer organizations across...

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