Lumen offers 8 Gbps residential service over XGS-PON

Lumen Technologies is now offering symmetrical 8 Gbps broadband over its Quantum Fiber residential and small business service. Lumen is using XGS-PON technology.The 8 Gbps tier is available to select residents and small businesses in cities near Denver, Minneapolis and Seattle, with more cities to come.  "Technology is evolving and so is Lumen as we tap into the power of our fiber network to give communities more bandwidth to excel at work,...

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Keysight and Nokia demo 800 Gigabit Ethernet

Keysight Technologies and Nokia demonstrate the first public 800GE test, validating the readiness of next-generation optics for service providers and network operators.The readiness testing was conducted at Nokia’s private SReXperts customer event in Madrid in June 2022, and included Keysight’s AresONE 800GE Layer 1-3 800GE line rate test platform and the Nokia 7750 Service Routing platform. The AresONE was used to test and qualify Nokia’s FP5 network...

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Samsung develops Memory-semantic SSD based on CXL

 At this week's Flash Memory Summit 2022, Samsung announced its 'Memory-semantic SSD', which combines the benefits of storage and DRAM memory. Leveraging Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect technology and a built-in DRAM cache, Memory-semantic SSDs can achieve up to a 20x improvement in both random read speed and latency when used in AI and ML applications. Samsung’s Memory-semantic SSDs will be optimized to read and write small-sized data...

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Nokia wins 45% share of Bharti Airtel's 5G RAN

Bharti Airtel awarded a multi-year contract to Nokia for 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment.  The companies said the contract represents approximately a 45% share of Bharti's planned 5G RAN rollout.  Nokia has been a supplier to Bharti for the past 18 years.Under this contract, Nokia will provide equipment from itsAirScale portfolio, including modular and scalable baseband as well as high-capacity 5G massive MIMO radios.This multi-year...

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ADTRAN posts Q2 revenue of $172 million

ADTRAN reported Q2 revenue of $172.0 million, net income of $2.1 million and earnings per share of $0.04. Non-GAAP net income was $9.7 million and non-GAAP earnings per share was $0.19.ADTRAN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom Stanton stated, “We had a strong Q2 fueled by the growing demand for our fiber broadband platforms. Customer demand continues to grow at record levels. We increased revenue both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year...

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A10 Networks posts revenue of $68.0 million, up 14.9% yoy

A10 Networks reported revenue of $68.0 million, up 14.9% year-over-year. GAAP gross margin was 80.2%. GAAP net income was $10.4 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared with GAAP net income of $6.6 million, or $0.08 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2021.Revenue growth was led by a 33.7% increase in the Americas year-over-year.“Continued strong demand for our proprietary, security-led solutions, combined with sustained business execution,...

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DISH Network reports drop in revenues, wireless subscribers

DISH Network revenue of $523 million for the second quarter 2022, compared to $671 million for the year-ago quarter. Diluted earnings per share were $0.82 for the second quarter, compared to $1.06 per share during the same period in 2021. Some highlights:Net pay-TV subscribers decreased approximately 257,000 in the second quarter, compared to a net decrease of approximately 67,000 in the year-ago quarter.The company closed the quarter with 9.99...

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Dell'Oro: Rapid growth for 5G workloads on the public cloud

A new report by Dell'Oro Group predicts that 5G workloads on the public cloud will grow revenues at an 88 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) and cumulative revenues are estimated at $4.6 billion over the 5-year forecast period 2022-2026. The report finds that the vast majority of 5G SA networks will be in the Telco Cloud, limiting the short-term opportunity for the Public Cloud to host 5G workloads.“At first glance, this may appear to be...

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Fastly names Todd Nightingale as CEO

Fastly, which operates a global edge cloud platform, appointed Todd Nightingale as the company’s next CEO, effective September 1, 2022. Nightingale will succeed Joshua Bixby, who, as previously announced, will step down as CEO and from Fastly’s Board of Directors. Bixby will remain with Fastly as an advisor.Nightingale joins Fastly from Cisco, where he currently leads business strategy and development efforts for Cisco's multi-billion dollar networking...

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