Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Analog Devices debuts Single-pair Power over Ethernet at 1 km

Analog Devices introduced the first Single-pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and Power Device (PD) chipsets.Potential SPoE applications include smart buildings, factory automation, and other applications at the edge of traditional networks. Analog Devices’ new SPoE solutions, LTC4296-1 and LTC9111, reduce reliance on localized power and batteries by using a single twisted pair of Ethernet cables to provide efficient,...

NTT Electronics spins out fJscaler to focus on ICs for coherent optics

NTT Electronics has established a majority-owned subsidiary called fJscaler to focus on differentiated electronics integrated circuits (ICs) that powers its 100G+ coherent DSP product portfolio. fJscaler, a new majority owned subsidiary of NTT Electronics, is a fabless semiconductor group designing high-speed, high-performance ICs for coherent optics, as well as several related interconnects in the optical communications market needing PAM4,...

Cisco posts quarterly sales of $13.6B, up 6% yoy

Citing an “easing supply situation,” Cisco reported first quarter revenue of $13.6 billion, up 6% year-over-year, net income (GAAP) of $2.7 billion or $0.65 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $3.5 billion or $0.86 per share.“Our fiscal 2023 is off to a good start as we delivered the largest quarterly revenue and second highest quarterly non-GAAP earnings per share in our history,” said Chuck Robbins, chair and CEO of Cisco. “These results demonstrate...

NVIDIA's Q3 sales drop to $5.93 billion, down 17% yoy

NVIDIA reported Q3 2022 revenue of $5.93 billion, down 17% from a year ago and down 12% from the previous quarter. Net income was $1.456 billion, down 51% yoy. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.58, down 50% from a year ago and up 14% from the previous quarter.“We are quickly adapting to the macro environment, correcting inventory levels and paving the way for new products,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.“The ramp of our new...

AWS Region opens in Spain

Amazon announced the opening on AWS Region in Aragón, Spain. The regions is officially named Europe (Spain) and the API name is eu-south-2. The AWS Europe (Spain) Region has three Availability Zones (AZ), enabling the deployment of applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains one or more data centers.Availability Zones are separate and distinct geographic...

O-RAN Alliance elects DT's Alex Jinsung Choi as chairman

Members of the O-RAN Alliance elected Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom, as the new chairman of the Board. Dr. Choi had previously served as COO of O-RAN ALLIANCE since its founding in 2018. In the chairmanship he replaces Andre Fuetsch, who served as chairman from 2018 until his retirement from AT&T in August 2022.“The recently elected O-RAN ALLIANCE leadership stays fully committed to O-RAN’s mission to transform...

GBI deploys Infinera’s ICE6 800G Optical Engine

Ahead of the World Cup, Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has deployed Infinera’s ICE6 800G optical engine across its submarine and terrestrial networks between the Middle East and Europe.The upgrade to ICE6 doubles GBI’s network capacity and provides connections of up to 800G per wavelength. GBI was able to rapidly and seamlessly integrate this new technology over its existing third-party optical line system by leveraging open optical networking principles,...

ArmorCode secures $14M for its AppSecOps

ArmorCode, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, secured a $14 million in Series A funding for its AppSecOps.ArmorCode's AppSecOps platform provides application security posture, vulnerability and compliance management, as well as DevSecOps automation. The funding round was led by Ballistic Ventures, the venture capital firm solely focused on backing cybersecurity startups, founded by Kevin Mandia, Barmak Meftah, Ted Schlein, Jake Seid,...

Bluetooth looks to expand into the 6 GHz band

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) kicked off a new specification development project to define the operation of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) in additional unlicensed mid-band spectrum, including the 6 GHz frequency band. Bluetooth is the most widely deployed wireless standard in the world with over 5 billion products shipping each year.“Over the last twenty years, Bluetooth technology has made our lives more productive, safer, healthier,...

Lumen expands fiber rollout in 30 U.S. metros

Lumen Technologies confirmed plans to expand its residential and small business fiber internet service, Quantum Fiber, in more than 30 cities and metro areas in the U.S.Local Quantum Fiber teams are working on expansions in the following cities and surrounding metro areas:Albuquerque, N.M., Boise, Idaho, Bozeman, Mont., Cheyenne, Wyo., Colorado Springs, Colo., Denver, Colo., Des Moines, Iowa, Fort Myers, Fla., Las Vegas, Nev., Minneapolis, Minn.,...