Dell'Oro: Data Center CAPEX races ahead in 1Q 2022

Data center capex grew at the fastest rate year-over-year in three years in 1Q 2022, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. New cloud deployments and higher data center infrastructure costs drove capex.“Data center capex grew double-digits year-over-year in 1Q 2022 despite persistent supply chain constraints,” said Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. “However, growth was attributed to higher data center equipment average selling...

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Digital Realty to develop colocation/connectivity hub in Israel

Digital Realty has formed a joint venture with Mivne Real Estate to develop a new multi-tenant data center campus in Israel. Digital Realty Mivne expects to develop a multi-tenant data center campus in Petah Tikvah, the primary connectivity hub in Israel.  The data center campus will support the development of up to 20 megawatts (MW) of installed IT load.  Delivery of the initial phase is anticipated in 2023, subject to customer demand. Israel...

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MIT develops optically interconnected AI chip

Researchers at MIT have fabricated a stackable, reconfigurable artificial intelligence chip that uses light-emitting diodes (LED) to allow the chip’s multiple layers to communicate optically. The MIT design uses light, rather than physical wires, to transmit information through the chip. The design consists of paired photodetectors and LEDs, each patterned with tiny pixels. Photodetectors constitute an image sensor for receiving data, and LEDs...

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CoreSite deploys Arrcus to build out its Open Cloud Exchange

CoreSite has deployed the Arrcus Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) solution to help enable the CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange (OCX). CoreSite is leveraging the ACE MCN solution to extend its software-defined networking platform through automating additional provisioning functionality within AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud and direct cloud-to-cloud communication capabilities on CoreSite’s fully managed virtual routers.Arrcus’ ACE MCN solution in CoreSite’s...

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Telefónica pursues circular economy plan for its telecom gear

Telefónica is pursuing a circular economy plan for the reuse of its telecommunications equipment among its Group operators and with other third parties. The goal is to offer a second life to devices. The plan is for each operator to publish and visualise available equipment to promote its reuse, supported by a digital platform and a simple operating model that facilitates the movement of equipment between the countries where the Group operates,...

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Malaysia's MSAR picks Ciena

MSA Resources Sdn Bhd (MSAR), a telecommunications infrastructure provider based in Peninsular Malaysia will deploy Ciena’s 6500, WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics, and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller to reach data transmission speeds of 800 Gbps line rate and total network capacity of 33.6Tb/s per fiber pair.MSAR is currently building a new fibre optic network from Johor Bahru to Bukit Kayu Hitam with connectivity to all...

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Spirent debuts CF400 security and application delivery test platform

Spirent Communications introduced its CF400 Appliance for the validation of hyperscale networks and security controls.Spirent’s CF400 Appliance is the industry’s first network security and application delivery test platform to provide 400G of application traffic and 200G of encrypted traffic performance testing capabilities, including full HTTP/3 testing in a single appliance. The ability to combine the CF400 with previous platforms enables customers...

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UK's Quickline deploys ADVA FSP 150 aggregation

UK-based Quickline has deployed ADVA's FSP 150 aggregation solution to offer high-speed residential and enterprise services across the hardest-to-reach areas in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Quickline's new network utilizes 5G wireless and FTTP for the last mile. Built on the high-density ADVA FSP 150-XG400 Series, the infrastructure enables 100Gbit/s connectivity in the national network as well as the distribution of the highly precise phase...

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Calix opens development center in Bengaluru

Calix announced the grand opening of the Calix India Development Center (CIDC) in Bengaluru, India. Calix said it chose to invest in Bengaluru, “India’s Silicon Valley,” for its new development center because of its position at the forefront of information technology in India. A major focus of the CIDC will be to expand the development teams for the Calix Cloud platform, which allows broadband service providersto access real-time data,...

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