Farice plans fiber route linking Iceland, Ireland and Japan

Farice reached a sales agrement with Far North Digital (FND) for fiber connectivity between Japan and Iceland via Farice’s new IRIS submarine cable and FND’s planned Arctic cable.Construction is currently underway for Farice's IRIS Subsea Telecoms Cable System from Iceland to Galway, Ireland. The system is planned for service early 2023.The FND fiber cable will be the first Arctic route connecting Asia with Europe via the Northwest Passage, greatly...

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Rogers suffers widespread outage

Rogers experienced a widespread network outage beginning on Friday morning and impacting Quebec and Ontario primarily, as well as other linked services nationwide. The Rogers outage led to cascading effects at banks, credit card processing, and online businesses.On Saturday, Rogers reported service restoration to the majority of its users. Tony Staffieri, the president and CEO of Rogers, stated "We now believe we’ve narrowed the cause to a network...

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StratCap acquires a key data center in Jacksonville

StratCap Data Centers has acquired a triple net leased data center in Jacksonville, Florida. Financial terms and name of the seller were not disclosed.StratCap said the 25,600 square foot facility is fully leased to a major telecommunications carrier and serves as one of the company’s wireless communications switching centers. The facility includes a cell tower and acts as an essential hub for routing voice calls and text messages for the tenant’s...

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Quantum Source raises $15M for photonic vision

Quantum Source, a start-up based in Rehovot, Israel, announced $15 million in seed funding.Quantum Source’s vision is to enable scaling quantum computers to millions of qubits using photonic technology.The company was founded by three serial entrepreneurs and a Professor from the Weizmann Institute of Science: Oded Melamed, CEO, who was the co-founder and CEO of Altair Semiconductor acquired by Sony; Gil Semo, VP R&D, who was among the founding...

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SpaceX launches 46 Starlink satellites from California

On Sunday, July 10 at 6:39 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This Falcon 9 first stage booster previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, and three Starlink missions. This was the 29th SpaceX mission for 2022 and the 50th dedicated Starlink mission https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl3...

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