Havhingsten Cable System links Ireland, UK and the Nordics

Construction has completed on the Havhingsten cable system linking Ireland, the UK and the Nordics. Partners in the project include Aqua Comms, Bulk Fiber Networks, a leading builder and operator of fiber network infrastructure, and Meta. The subsea cable was built by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN).The Havhingsten cable system runs across the Irish Sea from north of Dublin, Ireland to south of Blackpool on the west coast of the UK, with a section...

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Intel and Microsoft contribute Scalable I/O Virtualization spec to OCP

 Intel and Microsoft have contributed a Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project (OCP), enabling virtualization of PCI Express and Compute Express Link devices in cloud servers. SIOV is hardware-assisted I/O virtualization with the potential to support thousands of virtualized workloads per server. SIOV moves the non-performance-critical virtualization and management logic off the PCIe device and into...

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Australia's NBN pushes for FTTP upgrades

NBN Co is on track to enable up to 8 million premises across Australia to access nbn Home Ultrafast, offering peak download speeds of 500 Mbps to close to 1 Gbps, by the end of next year. More than 4.4 million premises connected to the network can already access nbn Home Ultrafast, with 2.4 million premises able to access wholesale download speeds of 500 Mbps to close to 1 Gbps via Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) and around 2 million premises able...

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Nokia to supply optical transport for TIME in Malaysia

Nokia has been selected by TIME dotCom (TIME) to deploy an optical network linking data centers and cable landing stations in Malaysia. The deployment leverages Nokia’s 1830 PSS platform, PSE-V chipset and 400G multi-haul pluggable optics. The solutions will also offer Nokia next generation iROADM line system capabilities with flexible grid, contentionless, directionless and colorless (CDC-F) optical add-drop and restoration features, which...

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Intel updates power supply specs for PCIe 5.0

Intel has published updated ATX 3.0 power supply specifications for next-generation hardware and upcoming components built for technologies like PCIe Gen 5.0.  The initial ATX 2.0 specs were introduced in 2003. Intel said a new 12VHPWR connector will power most, if not all, future PCIe 5.0 desktop Add-in cards (e.g., graphics cards). This new connector provides up to 600 watts directly to any PCIe 5.0 Add-in/graphics card....

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Canada's TELUS ships ZTE's Connect-Hub 5G Gateway

TELUS has begun offering ZTE's Connect-Hub 5G Internet gateway for residential fixed wireless service in Canada.The Connect-Hub 5G Indoor and Outdoor Units support 4G LTE, 5G SA and NSA modes, as well as Sub-6GHz. Advanced antenna technology and algorithms independently select the strongest network signal. The Indoor Unit supports up-to-30 simultaneous Wi-Fi connections and features an innovative antenna that creates a 360-degree dual-band Wi-Fi...

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Deutsche Telekom ends software development in Russia

Deutsche Telekom confirmed that it is closing it software development activities.In a follow-up to its press conference on February 24, the German carrier issued the following statement:"Deutsche Telekom does not operate any networks in Russia. We have no business relationships with companies in Russia. However, we have a team of software developers, mainly in St. Petersburg, who provide services to customers outside Russia.In recent weeks, we have...

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