Lightmatter lands $154 million for photonic interconnects / processors

Lightmatter, a start-up based in Boston, raised a $154 million Series C investment round for its photonic interconnects and processors.Lightmatter’s photonics-enabled products encompass a full stack of hardware and software for AI and supercomputing applications.“Rapid progress in artificial intelligence is forcing computing infrastructure to improve at an unprecedented rate. The energy costs of this growth are significant, even on a planetary scale,”...

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CoreWeave raises $421 million for GPU cloud service

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, announced an additional $200 million in funding to expand its cloud GPU services.The new funding , which was provided by  Magnetar Capital (“Magnetar”), a leading alternative asset manager, comes just one month after the company announced $221 million in Series B funding, also led by Magnetar, bringing the total for the round to $421 million.CoreWeave said...

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Liquid Dataport connects Mombasa to Muanda via terrestrial fiber

Liquid Dataport launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya, to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). The new 3,800 km fiber route reduces data transmission latency by 20 milliseconds. The route connects Kenya and DRC, passing through Uganda and Rwanda and bringing more reliable and affordable broadband connectivity to over 40 million people living and working in all the major cities along...

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FCC updates National Broadband Map

The FCC released an updated version of its location-based national broadband map.The FCC finds that more than 8.3 million U.S. homes and businesses lack access to high-speed broadband. On net, the improvements to the map since November helped to identify nearly 330,000 more unserved locations.The FCC mapping team has reviewed challenges to availability data for more than 4 million locations. Over 75% of those challenges have already been resolved...

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MACOM opens European Semiconductor Center in France

MACOM is establishing a European Semiconductor Center to offer its customers higher frequency Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuits.MACOM recently acquired the key manufacturing facilities, capabilities and technologies of OMMIC SAS. The OMMIC facility, which is located near Paris in Limeil-Brévannes, France, will become the foundation for MACOM’s newly established European Semiconductor Center. “We...

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5G Open Innovation Lab aims for faster deployment of private mobile

The 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) is collaborating with F5, GXC and Spirent Communications to showcase an enterprise Private Mobile Network (PMN) capable of delivering service in hard-to-reach locations with greater security, control, and resilience.As 5G infrastructure becomes more mainstream, enterprises and organizations are subsequently deploying more private networks and telco clouds into strategic locations to leverage newly available...

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Amazon Security Lake consolidates data from cloud, on-prem and SaaS

Amazon Web Services launched a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from across their AWS environments, leading SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake.Amazon Security Lake converts and conforms incoming security data to the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) open standard, making it easier for security teams to automatically collect, combine, and analyze...

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Keysight and Nokia test 6G active sub-THz components

Keysight Technologies and Nokia Bell Labs will demonstrate component and radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) characterization for 6G subterahertz (sub-THz) radio frequency (RF) applications in the D- and E-bands at the International Microwave Symposium 2023 (IMS 2023) in June.The companies have been collaborating to develop characterization techniques to test active sub-THz components, such as amplifiers, mixers, and frequency converters, to...

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NVIDIA’s data center revenue rises 14% yoy to $4.28B

NVIDIA reported quarterly revenue of $7.19B, down 13% compared to a year ago but well above its outlook. More significantly, NVIDIA again affirmed that Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and enterprises are racing to deploy its flagship NVIDIA Hopper- and Ampere-architecture GPUs to meet surge in interest in generative AI.GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.82, up 28% from a year ago and up 44% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP...

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HPE sees growth in GreenLake edge-to-cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported Q2 revenue of $7.0 billion, up 4% from the prior-year period and 9% in constant currency. GAAP margin amounted to 36.0%, an all-time record for the company.“Building on a great start to the fiscal year, HPE grew revenue, increased the contribution of recurring revenue through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, and delivered exceptional profitability to generate a strong second quarter performance,” said...

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IP Infusion cites surging demand for white box open networking

IP Infusion reported record-breaking growth in 1Q 2023 with sales at the highest ever level for a single quarter. The company, which is a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of ACCESS CO, said first quarter OcNOS sales orders are more than three times Year over Year compared to Q1 2022, led by robust demand for OcNOS’s disaggregated Data Center, Aggregation Router and Cell Site Router products.In addition, 23 new customers in...

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Vector Capital to acquire Riverbed

Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm, agreed to acquire Riverbed Technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.Riverbed, which was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, specializes in network acceleration and telemetry.Riverbed’s existing lenders will continue to support the Company by providing it with a new credit facility at closing. Stephen Goodman, a Principal at Vector Capital, added: “With a significantly enhanced balance...

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Semtech appoints new CEO

Semtech appointed Paul H. Pickle as its new president and chief executive officer, replacing Mohan Maheswaran, who announced his retirement in March.Previously, Mr. Pickle has served as president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors of Lantronix. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Microsemi Corporation, a provider of semiconductor and system solutions, from November 2013 until Microsemi...

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NVIDIA positions Spectrum-X Networking for generative AI

NVIDIA introduced its Spectrum-X Networking Platform for Ethernet-based AI clouds.The Spectrum-X solution consists of the company's existing 51 Tbps NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch and the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, along with acceleration software and software development kits (SDKs).Advanced RoCE extensions work across the Spectrum-4 switches, BlueField-3 DPUs and NVIDIA LinkX optics to create an end-to-end 400GbE network that is optimized for AI...

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MediaTek’s auto chip integrates NVIDIA GPU chip via coherent interconnect

MediaTek will develop automotive SoCs and integrate the NVIDIA GPU chiplet, featuring NVIDIA AI and graphics intellectual property, into the design architecture. The chiplets are connected by an ultra-fast and coherent chiplet interconnect technology.In addition, MediaTek will run the NVIDIA DRIVE OS, DRIVE IX, CUDA and TensorRT software technologies on these new automotive SoCs to enable connected infotainment and in-cabin convenience and safety...

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Arm intros its next CPU + GPU platform for mobile computing

Arm introduced its Total Compute Solutions 2023 (TCS23) platform for mobile computing.TCS23 is designed and optimized for specific workloads that need to run seamlessly together as a complete system. This includes a new Arm Immortalis GPU based on the company’s 5th Generation GPU architecture, a new cluster of Armv9 CPUs for next-gen artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, and new enhancements to deliver more accessible software for the millions...

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Cadence and Arm target faster path to tapeout

Cadence Design Systems, in  collaboration with Arm , is targeting a faster path to tapeout through use of Cadence digital and verification tools and the new Arm Total Compute Solutions 2023 (TCS23), which includes the Arm Cortex-X4, Arm Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 CPUs and Immortalis-G720, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620 GPUs.Through this latest collaboration, Cadence delivered comprehensive RTL-to-GDS digital flow Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) for 3nm...

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Dell'Oro: Improving component supply drives growth in optical transport equipment

Optical Transport equipment revenue grew 8 percent year-over-year in 1Q 2023, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group."For a second consecutive quarter, the Optical Transport equipment market growth exceeded our expectations," said Jimmy Yu, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. "Equipment manufacturers are benefiting from the record level of backlog built-up over the past two years due to a lack of component supply. As these shortages moderate...

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Ofcom greenlights discounted wholesale fibre pricing from Openreach

Ofcom, the UK telecoms market regulator, will allow Openreach to offer discounted wholesale pricing for its full-fibre service.The new pricing scheme, know as the Equinox 2 plan, gives lower prices to retail providers – such as BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone – if they agree to use mainly Openreach’s full-fibre products for new orders instead of its legacy copper products.https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/decision-on-openreach-equinox-2-p...

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Adtran launches FSP 3000 open line systems for the coherent optical edge

Adtran launched its FSP 3000 Edge OLS, an open line system designed for the new generation of coherent edge access, aggregation and metro networks. The platform is specifically engineered for the use of coherent transmission at the optical edge, including the recently introduced Coherent 100ZR, as well as 400ZR optics. Adtran says that by utilizing power-optimized wavelength broadcasting technology and a gridless architecture, its solution enables...

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WSJ: Tipster in Ericsson's bribery case awarded $279 million by SEC

The tipster who reported Ericsson to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for bribery was awared $279 million under the government's cash-for-tips program, according to The Wall Street Journal. A tipster can be awarded between 10% to 30% of fines collected, depending on circumstances.Ericsson resolved the case with the SEC in 2019, agreeing to pay a $1.1 billion fine. A subsequent issue led to Ericsson being fined an additional $207 million.The...

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MaxLinear intros 2.5G Ethernet switches and eight port 2.5G Enterprise PHYs

MaxLinear introduced a new line of 2.5G Ethernet products, including new 2.5G Ethernet switches and eight port 2.5G Enterprise PHYs.MXL862XX 2.5G Octal Switch/PHY Key FeaturesIntegrated 16 port Switch with 10/100/1000/2.5GBASE-T PHYs (5 or 8 ports)Two optional 10G uplink ports (MxL862x2)Power: 6.5W/8 Port switch, 4.3W/5 Port switch, 5.5W/8 port PHY400MHz ARC CPU: Web smartUnblocking wire speed switchingFeature rich switch with VLAN, QinQ, QoS, traffic...

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Broadband Forum issues TR-459 Issue 2 spec

The Broadband Forum announced the second issue of Technical Report-459: Multi-Service Disaggregated BNG with CUPS."TR-459 Issue 2 includes an additional layer of flexibility to manage subscriber resiliency, simplifying operations and streamlining provisioning and maintenance," said Jonathan Newton, Co-Director of the Access and Transport Architecture Work Area at Broadband Forum from Vodafone.Any faults that can cause network outages can be navigated...

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MaxLinear supplies PAM4 DSP for JPC's 800G active electrical cable

Taiwan-based JPC Connectivity has selected MaxLinear’s 5nm Keystone PAM4 DSP to produce 800G active electrical cables for hyperscale datacenters. JPC Connectivity will demonstrate the new cables at Computex 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan from May 30 – June 2.MaxLinear said its Keystone can yield up to a 40% power saving over competitor solutions. The Keystone 5nm DSP family has been designed to address both 400G and 800G applications and is the first...

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Marvell posts revenue of $1.322 billion, seems AI as a growth driver

 Marvell Technology reported revenu of $1.322 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2024, $22 million above the midpoint of the company's prior guidance and down 9% year-on-year. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2024 was $(168.9) million, or $(0.20) per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2024 was $264 million, or $0.31 per diluted share. Cash flow from operations for the first quarter was...

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Microsoft: China's Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure

Microsoft uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity aimed at critical infrastructure in the United States and carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China.Microsoft alledges that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.The attack gains initial access to targeted organizations...

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Ayar Labs raises additional funding for optical I/O chiplets

Ayar Labs, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, for its work in silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity.Ayar Labs uses industry-standard silicon processing techniques to deliver fast, high-density, low power optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength light sources. The new funding brings the company's total Series C raise to $155 million. The oversubscribed up round was led...

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Tech Update video: Ayar Labs' Optical I/O Chiplets

How will optical I/O revolutionize data communications?https://youtu.be/LP2-Y_TYPPECharlie Wuischpard, CEO from Ayar Labs explains:The benefits of optical communication brought closer to the source, replacing copper traces on motherboards with fiber optic communicationAyar Labs' chiplet using silicon photonics technology and micro ring resonators for efficient data transmissionApplications in AI training, scale-out architectures, and data centers...

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NVIDIA sees trillion dollar upgrade cycle for data center infrastructure

NVIDIA reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 30, 2023, of $7.19 billion, down 13% from a year ago and up 19% from the previous quarter.GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.82, up 28% from a year ago and up 44% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $1.09, down 20% from a year ago and up 24% from the previous quarter.“The computer industry is going through two simultaneous transitions —...

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Dell'Oro: Open RAN and vRAN growth slowed in 1Q 2023

Revenue growth moderated in 1Q 2023 for both Open RAN and Virtualized RAN (vRAN), according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group. “Since both Open RAN and vRAN are still driven by a few large service providers, the slower growth in the first quarter was for the most part in line with expectations, reflecting more so the state of the 5G rollouts with some of the advanced operators than a shift in the overall Open RAN/vRAN market sentiment,”...

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Dell'Oro: MEC market fails to materialize

The Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) market has failed to materialize as expected. Dell'Oro Group is is lowering expectations by more than 20 percent for 2023.In addition, the China Mobile Core Network (MCN) market hit a steep decline in 1Q 2023 weighing down the total market.“The MEC market is not reaching the potential market as expected initially. Except for China, the big promise for MEC was addressing the needs of Enterprises. Several factors...

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DriveNets designs network fabric for large-scale AI workloads

DriveNets introduced a networking solution designed to maximize the utilization of AI infrastructures and improve the performance and utilization of large-scale AI workloads. DriveNets Network Cloud-AI aims for 30% improvement in JCT (Job Completion Time) of large-scale AI workloads, substantially improving resource utilization, while also supporting a standard Ethernet which allows for vendor interoperability and choice."AI compute resources are...

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Farice lights Iceland-Ireland subsea cable with Ciena

Farice has deployed Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution to support its recently launched IRIS cable system connecting southwest Iceland to Galway, Ireland, with onward connectivity to the UK, Denmark, and the Nordics. The IRIS cable system, which went live on March 1, is a six-fiber pair trunk delivering 22Tb/s per fiber pair, for a total capacity of 132Tb/s, at 500Gb/s line rates. The 1,700km submarine cable is the third to connect...

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Apple signs multiyear deal with Broadcom for 5G RF components

Apple signed a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement with Broadcom for 5G radio frequency components — including FBAR filters — and cutting-edge wireless connectivity components. The FBAR filters will be designed and built in several key American manufacturing and technology hubs, including Fort Collins, Colorado, where Broadcom has a major facility woth more than 1,100 employees.“We’re thrilled to make commitments that harness the ingenuity,...

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CoreSite expands in Silicon Valley and Denver

CoreSite announced the continued expansion of its Silicon Valley and Denver data center campuses. Plans include:Silicon Valley: CoreSite is adding its ninth data center in Santa Clara, California. With the addition of the new 240,000-square-foot, purpose-built data center – known as SV9 – the company’s newest Silicon Valley data center campus will have 1.179 million total square feet of data center space. Located at 2915 Stender Way, SV9 will offer...

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Nick Lippis ONUG perspective: Capex, Opex & Cloud Migration

Struggling to navigate the transition from hardware to software-based infrastructure? Nick Lippis, Co-Founder & Co-Chair of ONUG, explains:– The shift from CapEx to OpEx and managing infrastructure you don’t own– The rise of network and security teams in enterprise cloud infrastructure– How ONUG provides tools, knowledge, and best practices for successful digital transformation See video: https://ngi.fyi/onugsp23-onug-nickCheck out...

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ATX cites safety of its supercapacitors for broadband

ATX Networks recently completed testing of its hybrid supercapacitor-based energy storage modules that demonstrate the solution’s ability to withstand excessive physical and electrical stress without creating a safety hazard or dangerous environmental conditions. The testing was conducted by Georgia-based testing laboratory Energy Assurance, part of the Element Materials Technology (Element) Group.ATX claims that its next-generation energy storage...

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Vietnam's VNPT deploys 10G fiber broadband with Nokia

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) has begun deployment of 10G fiber broadband with Nokia. The initial rollout will connect 10,000 homes and businesses in the 8 largest provinces of the country. Nokia is providing fiber access nodes for the operator’s exchanges and fiber modems for end users’ premises. The deployment includes Nokia's 7360-FX Lightspan series access node (OLT) which supports multiple fiber technologies including GPON,...

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ADVA announces planned CEO transition

ADVA confirmed that Christoph Glingener will step down as CEO and transition to his previous role as CTO for ADVA effective June 30, 2023, and will continue as CTO for Adtran, to which he was appointed in January 2023. Tom Stanton will be appointed ADVA’s new CEO effective July 1, 2023, and will also continue as Adtran’s CEO. Tom Stanton was named Adtran Inc. CEO in 2005 and chairman of the board in 2007. https://www.adva.com/en/newsro...

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Blueprint: Using Carrier Geolocation Data for Real-Time Insights

by Heather Broughton, AVP Marketing, Service Provider Solutions at NETSCOUTMany communication service providers (CSPs) investing in 5G technology are turning to geomarketing solutions to better reach their revenue goals. This follows reports that 9 in 10 companies worldwide use location data, and that use is expected to grow in significance over the next few years. However, geomarketing as an economic opportunity is underutilized because...

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Axelera AI raises $50 million for edge inference

Axelera AI, a start-up based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, raised over $50 million in Series A funding for its development of a hardware + software solution for AI interference at the edge.The company says its AI edge solution enables computer vision applications to become more accessible, powerful and user friendly than ever before.In addition to its headquarters in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and the UK,...

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IBM offers Hybrid Cloud Mesh service

IBM introduced a SaaS offering to help enterprises to bring management to their hybrid multicloud infrastructure.IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh automates the process, management and observability of application connectivity in and between public and private clouds to help modern enterprises operate their infrastructure across hybrid multicloud and heterogeneous environments.When generally available later this year, IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh will also leverage...

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Applied Materials plans Semiconductor Innovation in Silicon Valley

Applied Materials plans to invest up to $4 billion over the next 7 years in Silicon Valley to build "the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment research and development (R&D)." The new Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center is planned as the heart of a high-velocity innovation platform designed to accelerate development and commercialization...

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Google Cloud region opens in Qatar

Google opened a cloud region data center in Doha, Qatar. The new region launches with three zones, allowing users to distribute applications and storage to help protect against service disruptions. The Doha region also launches with a key set of Google Cloud products, including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Span.The new Doha region is part of Google Cloud’s global network of 37 regions and 112 zones that...

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