Dell'Oro: Sustained broadband spending through 2027

Sales of PON equipment for fiber-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fiber and DOCSIS 4.0 networks, while expanding the types of services they deliver to residential subscribers, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group."Service providers around the world continue to transition their broadband networks to fiber...

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Colt connects to new Barcelona Cable Landing Station

Colt Technology Services (Colt) is the first carrier to connect to AFT-IX's new Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS). AFR-IX Telecom is already using Colt’s network in the African market to provide an internet service to African operators and customers to connect them to European data centers via Colt’s routes.Colt operates in more than 220 cities in over 30 countries and connects more than 1,000 data centres and over 31,000 connected...

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Juniper reports strong Q4 momentum, sales up 11% yoy

Juniper Networks reported Q4 2022 revenue of $1,448.8 million, an increase of 11% year-over-year, and an increase of 2% sequentially. GAAP operating margin was 14.0%, an increase from 11.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021, and an increase from 10.6% in the third quarter of 2022.“We experienced strong business momentum during the December quarter, including a second consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, a record performance...

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Red Hat and Oracle announced a multi-stage alliance to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a supported operating system. With this strategic collaboration, certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and customers can also migrate existing workloads already running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI with greater confidence. OCI...

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Ciena upgrades Honotua subsea cable in French Polynesia

French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300 Gbps. The last stage of operations was successfully carried out in October 2022 thanks to the engagement and expertise of the ONATi, Intelia and Ciena teams.The Honotua international cable was upgraded using Ciena’s GeoMesh Solution powered by the 6500...

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Orange Belgium and Telenet sign wholesale agreements

Orange Belgium, which serves over three million customers, and Telenet have signed two commercial fixed wholesale agreements, which entry into force is subject to the completion of the transaction related to the acquisition of 75% minus one share of VOO by Orange Belgium. The agreements will provide access to each other’s fixed networks for a 15-year period and cover both current Hybrid Fiber Coaxial and future Fiber to the Home technologies...

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Orange Group appoints CEOs for France and Spain

Jean-François Fallacher has been appointed CEO of Orange France effective April 3, replacing Fabienne Dulac, who is moving to a new role after eight years at the helm of Orange France. Fabienne Dulac will remain on the Executive Committee and will contribute to the deployment of the upcoming strategic plan.Ludovic Pech, the current Chief Financial Officer of Orange Middle East & Africa, has been appointed CEO of Orange Spain, replacing Jean-François...

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Frontier rolls with 5 Gbps fiber residential service

Frontier is launching a 5 Gig residential Internet service across its fiber network.The 5 Gig offer starts at $154.99 a month with autopay and includes uncapped data + Wi-Fi router + free installation + premium tech support.“We set a standard with network-wide 2 Gig internet last year, and now we’ve done it again,” said John Harrobin, Frontier’s Executive Vice President of Consumer. “Our 5 Gig offer meets the growing demand for multi-gig speeds and...

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NTT deploys Liquid Immersion Cooling at its new Mumbai data center

NTT Ltd., e of the world’s top 3 data center service providers, is deploying Liquid Immersion Cooling (LIC) and Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technologies at its Navi Mumbai Data Center. India becomes the first country across NTT’s global data center platform to deploy these alternative cooling technologies.The one-of-its-kind facility is part of its Mahape campus, which has a capacity of 4.8 MW spread over 13,740 square feet area built. The...

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NTT DOCOMO demos indoor 5G base station with multisector antenna

NTT DOCOMO, Nihon Dengyo Kosaku, and Fujitsu Ltd.  demonstrated a 5G indoor base station incorporating a multisector antenna using the 28GHz band.The prototype device incorporates circuitry just 1/10th the size of a conventional indoor base station,.The demonstration, in which a conventional 5G base station control unit communicated with the new device via a 28GHz signal, confirmed that a single multisector antenna can receive radio waves in...

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Antel tests VMware's Telco Cloud Platform

Antel, the leading Mobile Operator in Uruguay, is testing the VMware Telco Cloud Platform to support a Proof of Concept (PoC).VMware says its cloud native architecture will help Antel gain operational efficiencies and bring services and innovation to market faster. Using this integrated platform will allow Antel to deploy new network functions on the same Telco Cloud architecture from core to RAN to edge, enabling the scale and agility needed to...

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LightRiver signs with Brazil's Precision Solutions

LightRiver, an optical network integration solution provider, announced a partnership with Brazil-based Precision Solutions to transform how organizations in South America can manage and view their optical network hardware regardless of their current vendor(s). LightRiver's netFLEX Transport Domain Orchestration and Control Software solution is a network automation platform designed to address the complexities of disparate optical transport...

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Qwilt supplies its Open Caching for Japan's J:Com

J:COM, Japan’s leading cable broadband and multi-channel video provider, is now using  Qwilt’s Open Caching in its video delivery network.The deployment brings streaming content closer to J:COM’s 5.62 million subscribing households than ever before, enabling a superior over-the-top (OTT) streaming experience for J:COM customers.The solution is comprised of Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud, which provides Quality-as-a-Service content delivery, pushing...

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Samsung sets Life Cycle Assessment for semiconductor business

Samsung Electronics has established a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on the product carbon footprint of its semiconductor business and achieved verification from DNV, one of the world's leading independent certification bodies.LCA is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle of commercial products, processes, or services, by quantifying the amount of energy, materials and waste discharge. In detail, on its semiconductors’...

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T-Mobile US aims for net-zero emission by 2040

T-Mobile committed to achieve net-zero emissions across its entire carbon footprint by 2040. “As we know sustainability is important to our customers and stakeholders, T-Mobile has made great progress in reducing our environmental footprint – and now we're taking even bigger steps to reduce our carbon emissions with a commitment to meeting SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard,” said Mike Sievert, T-Mobile CEO. “We are proud that we are doing our part to...

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Dell'Oro increases forecast for O-RAN revenues

Citing stronger-than-expected O-RAN progress in North America, Dell'Oro Group is revising upwards it revenue forecast. Open RAN is now projected to account for 15 percent to 20 percent of global RAN by 2027.“The message that we have communicated for some time now with the early adopters embracing the movement and the early majority operator still concerned about performance and cost parity with Open RAN relative to proprietary RAN has not changed,”...

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Nokia delivers stellar network infrastructure sales in Q4

Nokia reported Q4 2022 sales of EUR 7.449 billion, up 16% over the same period in 2021 (up 11% y-o-y in constant currency). Full year net sales grew 6% (12% reported).Some highlights:In Q4 Network Infrastructure grew net sales 14% in constant currency with all units contributing. Mobile Networks grew 3% with a meaningful shift in regional mix in the quarter while Cloud and Network Services grew 5%. Nokia Technologies grew 82% as a long-term licensee...

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Vantage Data Centers highlights rapid expansion

Vantage Data Centers highlighed rapid growth of its portfolio of data centers in 2022 and plans for new facilities.North American Expansion: Vantage opened seven new data centers across its inaugural region of North America while continuing its aggressive expansion to keep pace with customer requirements.Canada: With a CAD$900M investment in Canadian operations, Vantage began development of a third Montreal campus while expanding existing campuses...

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Highlights from the first annual Chiplet Summit

 What happened at the first annual Chiplet Summit? Interest in chipsets is running high not only from leading semiconductor vendors and the Open Compute Project (OCP), but also from potential ecosystem partners, including semiconductor fab equipment vendors, silicon start-ups, system companies, hyperscalers and even the investment community. Chuck Sobey, Conference Chair, provides an overview at the end of a busy conference week.https:...

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Building a new Chiplet Economy

What will it take to create a vibrant ecosystem where innovative chipset designs can easily be integrated with other semiconductors and aligned to specific processing workload? Bapi Vinnakota, ODSA Project Lead, Open Compute Project, discusses the emerging chipset economy, including progress in defining the interface.https://youtu.be/KQEzkJav...

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Bunch of Wires (BoW) Die-to-Die Chiplet Demo

 At the first, annual Chiplet Summit in San Jose, California, d-Matrix demonstrated a die-to-die chipset interface based on the emerging Bunch of Wires (BoW) work undertaken by the Open Compute Project (OCP). In this video, Wen-Sin Liew, Analog and Mixed Signal Design Engineer, shares an overview of the demo.https://youtu.be/-iSDgbep...

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Comcast's communications revenue up 1.4% in Q4

Driven by increases in broadband, wireless, business services and advertising revenue, Comcast reported revenue for its cable communications business of $16.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, up 1.4% compared to a year earlier. Gains were partially offset by decreases in video, voice and other revenue. Highlights:Broadband revenue increased 5.4% due to an increase in average rates and an increase in the number of residential broadband...

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SpaceX launches heaviest Starlink payload yet - 56 satellites

SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on January 26th from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.The launch was the heaviest payload yet carried by a Falcon 9 -- 17,400 kg.The mission was SpaceX's 205th overall launch.The Starlink service is currently available in 44 countries.https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl5-2...

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Intel delivers a weak financial report

Intel reported Q4 revenue of $14.0 billion, down 32 percent year-over-year (YoY) and down 28 percent YoY on a non-GAAP basis. Full-year revenue was $63.1 billion, down 20 percent YoY and down 16 percent YoY on a non-GAAP basis. Q4 earnings (loss) per share (EPS) was $(0.16); non-GAAP EPS was $0.10. Full-year EPS was $1.94; non-GAAP EPS was $1.84."Despite the economic and market headwinds, we continued to make good progress on our strategic transformation...

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Intel cuts Switching and Pathfinder for RISC-V

As part of cost-cutting measures, Intel will discontinue development of its network switching product line. The Tofino switching silicon products were part of the acquisition of Barefoot Networks.  Prepared comments from CEO Pat Gelsinger for the Q4 investor call: "We enter 2023 with a view that much of the macro uncertainty of the last year is likely to persist, especially in the first half of the year. As such we are laser-focused...

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AT&T sees progress with open, disaggregated systems

AT&T is making significant progress with its open, disaggregated program. In a blog post, Mike Satterlee, vice president, Network Core Infrastructure Services, cites the following milestones: More than 52% of all production traffic are delivered over Next-Gen Core routers, which are based on the Broadcom Jericho2, Ramon chips and which use the Distributed Dis-Aggregated Chassis (DDC) design powered by DriveNets Network Cloud DNOS software....

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OCP and Jedec to standardize chiplet part descriptions

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and JEDEC Solid State Technology Association agreed to establish a framework for the transfer of technology captured in an OCP-approved specification to JEDEC for inclusion in one of its standards. This alliance brings together members from both the OCP and JEDEC communities to share efforts in developing and maintaining global standards needed to advance the electronics industry. Under this new alliance,...

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What next for data center interconnects in 2023?

Will public cloud spending come under budgetary scrutiny more than ever in 2023?  What about AI/ML workloads?https://youtu.be/TFcPunCxPuIHere are 3 predictions for 2023 from Cyxtera's' *Holland Barry* .-- *Check out other 2023 Predictions* --See what other experts have to say on *NextGenInfra* -- *Amplify your MWC 2023 presence* --Looking to record your video for our channel for our *MWC 2023 Showcase* in Barcelona?  We will be there!...

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What's next for 5G in 2023?

Will 5G mmWave become a driving force for enterprise innovation? Here are 3 predictions for 2023 from Movandi's' *Maryam Rofougaran* .https://youtu.be/R29dl9b90YA-- *Check out other 2023 Predictions* --See what other experts have to say on *NextGenInfra* https://ngi.fyi/predict2023yt -- *Amplify your MWC 2023 presence* --Looking to record your video for our channel for our *MWC 2023 Showcase* in Barcelona?  We will be there! Book your...

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SENKO sues US Conec over connector IP

SENKO Advanced Components filed a lawsuit in the federal court of Delaware alleging US Conec, Ltd has infringed seven of its patents relating to the MDC and MMC connector and adapter products – VSFF products.“SENKO has invested considerable time and resources in developing what we consider the industry’s broadest VSFF product portfolio, says Jim Hasegawa, Executive Vice President. “SENKO currently has over 70 issued VSFF related Patents covering...

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Lumen builds out its 400G wavelength service across the U.S.

Lumen announced some key milestones in the expansion of its U.S. intercity dark fiber network and 400 Gbps wavelength service:Lumen has deployed its U.S. intercity wavelength network across 70 markets. This gives customers unparalleled, diverse routing options in building a resilient core digital network.Today, over 240 data centers are enabled for 400G Lumen Wavelength Services, and more than 800TB of capacity currently runs across the network.Lumen...

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