KDDI hit by two day outage across Japan

KDDI, which serves over 31 million users across Japan, was hit by a widespread outage beginning on Saturday, July 2 at 01:35am local time.KDDI attributed the initial fault to regular maintenance procedures involving the replacement of a router. Cascading errors led to disruption of other core elements, including its VoLTE platform. Rakuten Mobile users were also hit by the outage due to carriage agreements between the firmsAs of Monday, July...

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Google Cloud region opens in Paris

A new Google Cloud region has opened in Paris, France.The new France region (europe-west 9) launches with three cloud zones and Google Cloud's standard set of services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, CloudSQL, and Cloud Identity. In addition, it offers core controls to enable organizations to meet their unique compliance, privacy, and digital sovereignty needs.https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-cloud-region-in-paris-france-now-openOracle...

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Telstra upgrades optical network to 400 GE

Telstra is upgrading its optical network interface for its IP routers and switches from 100 GE to a 400 GE.The deployment on Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform  will initially be used for Telstra’s Internet traffic and broadband connectivity.Iskra Nikolova, Telstra Executive for Network and Infrastructure, says: “We’re seeing traffic demands for mobile and fixed growing at over 40 percent and around 25 percent per annum respectively, driven...

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Oxford Quantum Circuits raises £38 million

UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) announed £38 million (US $46.45 million) in Series A funding for its work in quantum computing.The round was co-led by Lansdowne Partners, one of Europe’s leading investment firms, and The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC), Japan’s largest deeptech VC fund. British Patient Capital and existing investors Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) and Oxford Investment Consultants (OIC) also participated....

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