Transatlantic latency tests: Windstream, Aquacomm, Colt

Windstream Wholesale, Colt, and Aqua Comms announced wave connectivity from the United States to Europe with roundtrip latency of less than 100ms with no frame loss.Originating in Chicago on Windstream’s Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON), the 100G Waves test traveled to New York and across the Atlantic to London, England, utilizing Aqua Comms’ subsea fiber optic network. The service connected Windstream’s U.S. network to Colt’s European...

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WIOCC to activate capacity on Equiano subsea cable with Ciena

 WIOCC, a leading provider of digital connectivity and infrastructure across Africa, will activate a fiber pair on the new Equiano submarine cable system. WIOCC is deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme Solution, which leverages the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS), WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller. Ciena Services is providing turnkey planning, design and deployment services to ensure project...

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Samsung ships 8th gen Vertical NAND for enterprise servers

Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing a 1-terabit (Tb) triple-level cell (TLC) eighth-generation Vertical NAND (V-NAND) targeted at next-gen enterprise servers and automotive applications.The new V-NAND boasts the industry’s highest bit density and also features the highest storage capacity (1 Tb) to date, enabling larger storage space in next-generation enterprise server systems worldwide.Samsung was able to attain the industry’s highest...

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Ericsson hits 1 Gbps with 5G CBRS

Ericsson achieved a peak data rate of more than 1Gbps for a single user device in a recent 5G Standalone (SA) field trial over a live Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) multi-operator, neutral-host capable network at the company’s North American headquarters in Plano, Texas.Key results of the field trial included:Single CBRS user connection over 1Gbps5G SA connection with CBRS spectrumSeamless outdoor to indoor transitions“We are excited to...

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Rakuten Symphony to offer Juniper's RAN Intelligent Controller

Rakuten Symphony will deliver Juniper Networks' RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) as part of the Symworld Platform. The Symworld Platform embedded with Juniper’s RIC comes with the first Symworld application purchased, similar to iOS embedded with any iPhone, and supports any third-party application. This collaboration is part of a broader partnership that includes Juniper’s cloud-native routing and cloud metro solutions.When the first Symworld...

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CoreWeave to offer NVIDIA HGX H100 supercomputing GPUs

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, is among the first to offer cloud instances with NVIDIA HGX H100 supercomputing. NVIDIA claims its HGX H100 enables up to seven times better efficiency in high-performance computing (HPC) applications, up to nine times faster AI training on the largest models and up to 30 times faster AI inference than the NVIDIA HGX A100. That speed, combined with the lowest...

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GSMA elects Board of Directors

José María Álvarez-Pallete López, CEO of Telefónica Group, has been appointed as Chair of GSMA's Board of Directors. Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel Group, was named Deputy Chair. The GSMA elected the following Board of Directors for the 2023-2024 term (in alphabetical order):Carlos M. Jarque, Executive Director, International Relations, Government & Corporate Affairs, América Móvil GroupIgal Elbaz, Senior Vice President, Network CTO,...

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Intelsat selects SWISSto12's HummingSat

SWISSto12 won a contract to produce the Intelsat 45 satellite (IS-45), which will provide Ku-band fixed-satellite services enabling Intelsat to provide specialized and efficient service to Media and Network customers. Intelsat 45 is scheduled for launch in 2025. This makes Intelsat  the first commercial customer for SWISSto12's HummingSat geostationary (GEO) telecommunications product. HummingSats are just over one cubic meter in volume,...

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