Nokia extends mmWave 5G at 2 Gbps over 11 km

Nokia achieved sustained average downlink speeds of over 2 Gbps using millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), over a distance of 10.86 kilometers. The test, which was carried out at the OuluZone test facility in Oulu, Finland, used Nokia’s AirScale baseband and AirScale 24GHz (n258 band) mmWave radio and a Nokia FastMile 5G PoC CPE (customer premises equipment). Testing involved eight component carriers (8CC) in...

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Nokia to adopt Red Hat as primary cloud for core apps

Nokia will tightly integrate its core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. Under a new partnership, the companies agreed to jointly support and evolve existing Nokia Container Services (NCS) and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) customers while developing a path for customers to migrate to Red Hat’s platforms over time. Additionally, Nokia will leverage Red Hat’s infrastructure platforms to...

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Adtran S-Flex 400G muxponder carries 64G Fibre Channel over DWDM

Adtran introduced its FSP 3000 S-Flex DWDM muxponder able to support 64 Gbit/s Fibre Channel services and designed for next-generation storage area networks (SAN) and critical infrastructure. With a total capacity of 400Gbit/s and a compact design, S-Flex supports stringent DCI requirements in terms of speed and footprint. Its extensive feature set also addresses all SAN and DWDM network operation demands, including ultra-low latency, Fibre...

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Huawei looks to 5.5G commercialization in 2024

At this week's MWC Shanghai 2023, Huawei announced plans to launch commercial 5.5G network equipment in 2024, supporting downlinks for 10G.Huawei said its new 5.5G gear will protect operators' previous investment in 5G, while also improving network performance by 10 times. The company says it has made significant progress 5.5G verification process, specifically for extremely large antenna array (ELAA) which underpins 10 Gbps downlinks, flexible...

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Nokia intros 5G FWA receiver for subscriber homes

Nokia introduced a Fixed Wireless Access receiver for the North American market that uses a high gain antenna to deliver high speeds over long distances. The FastMile 5G receiver, which mounts to the outside of a subscriber's home, supports a broad range of 4G and 5G bands including CBRS in either 4G or 5G as well as c-band. It also supports up to 4CA NR carrier aggregation meaning operators can bundle bands for higher throughput. The outside receiver...

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Keysight supports O-RAN Spring 2023 Global PlugFest

Keysight Technologies collaborated with 14 industry partners to demonstrate Open RAN deployment readiness testing at the O-RAN Spring 2023 Global PlugFest organized by the O-RAN ALLIANCE.During PlugFest, Keysight Open RAN Architect (KORA) solutions were used with Keysight co-developed O-RAN test specifications across these focus areas:Open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) Fronthaul Conformance / Performance – Conducted automated testing of O-RU compliance to...

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MEF to host Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Global Summit

MEF will host its first-ever Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Global Summit, an innovative event that will bring together leading service and technology providers from across the global automation ecosystem for the benefit of companies implementing or evaluating automation APIs.The LSO Global Summit takes place October 2, 2023, in Dallas, Texas at MEF’s Global Network-as-a-Service Event (GNE).Key focus areas that play a crucial role in shaping...

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Windstream Wholesale rapidly activates 400G waves for cable customer

Windstream Wholesale reported a new benchmark for speed and efficiency in delivering multiple 400G wave orders to a large cable company. The team successfully completed service deployment to the customer in just 16 business days.The company credits its “one team” approach, emphasizing seamless collaboration and alignment between engineering, service delivery, product, and sales teams. The Wholesale group's unified structure fostered open communication...

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Tech Update: Doubling Optical Transmission Capacity with C+ L-band

How can network operators increase the capacity of the optical transport network? There are 2 ways: increase the bits-per-hertz or increase the amount of spectrum.  This video explores the second option -- how operators can leverage an additional 4.8 THz spectrum in the L-band to double the capacity of the network.  https://youtu.be/nklCbT8EW8sInfinera's Robert Shore and Arelion's Mattias Fridström discuss how the upgrade of an existing...

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Prosimo debuts free Multi-Cloud Networking tools

Prosimo, a start-up based in San Jose, California offering distributed enterprise connectivity services, introduced a free Multi-Cloud Networking solution powered by its Cloud-Native Full Stack Platform.Prosimo's Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) Foundation delivers VPC/VNet connectivity with route visibility and troubleshooting between cloud resources. The company provides a visual onboarding tool for cloud resource discovery and end-to-end traceability....

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Tech Update: Democratizing Multi-Cloud Networking

Prosimo is introducing a free Multi-Cloud Networking solution powered by its Cloud-Native Full Stack Platform. https://youtu.be/JdrJ0-FYFtw Ramesh Prabagaran, Co-founder and CEO of Prosimo, describes the key stages in an enterprise cloud migration journey, and how the focus must turn to applications, services, and users. Cost control can be a deciding factor. Stay tuned for our upcoming Enterprise Edge and Cloud Networking showcase series. In the...

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Plans for digital twin of UK's Spherical Tokamak project

Intel and Dell Technologies, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab plan to build a “digital twin” of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) prototype fusion power plant. The UKAEA will utilize the lab’s supercomputer based on Intel technologies, including 4th Gen Intel® Xeon Scalable processors, distributed asynchronous object storage (DAOS) and oneAPI tools to streamline the development...

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US Space Force awards US$134 million to SES Space & Defense

SES Space & Defense will provide Global X-Band satellite capacity, teleport and network services over a highly secure global terrestrial network, and other ancillary services to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The contract was awarded under a five-year X-Band Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with an estimated value of US$134 million through Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization...

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Alkira debuts Extranet as-a-Service

Alkira introduced an Extranet as-a-Service (EaaS) offering that leverages its global hyperscale cloud networking infrastructure to allow customers to instantly connect a variety of enterprise-class B2B applications and resources.Alkira's EaaS enables enterprises to connect their customers, partners, and third parties across highly distributed IT environments and multi-cloud networks.Highlights:Extranet at Hyperscale - Alkira leverages the hyperscale...

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Samsung Foundry targets first 2nm production in 2025

Samsung Foundry disclosed plans to begin 2nm process production for mobile applications in 2025, then expand to HPC in 2026 and automotive in 2027.The company says its 2nm process (SF2) has shown a 12% increase in performance, a 25% increase in power efficiency and a 5% decrease in area, when compared to its 3nm process (SF3).Some additional highlights from the 7th annual Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2023 event in  San Jose:Expanded production...

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Cisco to acquire SamKnow for broadband network monitoring

Cisco announced its intent to acquire SamKnows, a privately held broadband network monitoring company headquartered in London, England. Financial terms were not disclosed.SamKnow offers a FaultFinder solution that monitors network performance from the perspective of the end user. It builds a dynamic model of normal performance, constantly learning and re-learning to adapt to trend shifts. It compares real-time measurements against these models. When...

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AWS intros AppFabric to manage and secure applications

Amazon Web Services introduced a new AppFabric service that aggregates and normalizes log data from apps like Asana, Slack, and Zoom, as well as productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, to increase application observability and reduce operational costs associated with building and maintaining point-to-point integrations. The new AWS AppFabric service automatically provides a standardized set of security and operational...

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Spirent adds 400G testing and monitoring probe

Spirent Communications introduced a 400G probe for next-generation network testing and monitoring. The 400G 7574 Test Head is part of Spirent’s VisionWorks assurance solution, which enables service providers to address ever-increasing traffic speeds and density demands with test agents for physical and NFV-based networks. With VisionWorks, customers ensure that new services are provisioned correctly, tested for stressed scenarios during pre-deployment,...

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Australian Competition Tribunal blocks Telstra and TPG network sharing

The Australian Competition Tribunal has denied authorisation for the proposed regional spectrum authorisation arrangements between Telstra nd TPG Telecom.The Tribunal denied authorisation because it was not satisfied that the proposed arrangements were not likely to have the effect of a substantial lessening of competition or that the benefit to the public likely to result would outweigh the detriment. The Tribunal noted that the proposed arrangements...

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MaxLinear achieves 32.44 Gbps in JESD204C interoperability testing

MaxLinear's MxL1550 RF transceiver and Intel's Agilex 7 FPGA F-series device achieved 32.44 Gbps data rates during JESD204C interoperability testing.JESD204C is a multi-lane, multi-gigabit serial interface for high-throughput digital communications between RF transceivers and logic devices. MaxLinear said its JESD204C conforming implementation is based upon best-in-class SerDes innovations and delivers 32.44032 Gbps lane speeds. Such JESD204C...

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Leading Chinese mobile operators join GSMA Open Gateway Initiative

China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have joined the GSMA Open Gateway Initiative, which helps developers and cloud providers collaborate with mobile operators through a framework of open network Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs),The Open Gateway APIs aim to provide universal access to operator networks across all continents spanning from North America to Australia, Norway to Argentina. At a joint signing ceremony ahead of MWC...

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NTIA announces state allocations for $42.45 billion in BEAD grants

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced how it has allocated funding to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five territories to deploy high-speed Internet to all addresses that are currently unserved.The funding, a component of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, totals $42.5 billion in eligible grants.The announcement was made at a White House ceremony...

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OFS optimizes TrueLase fiber for multi-kilowatt fiber lasers

OFS announced an improved performance TrueLase Yb 22/400-915-3kW, Ytterbium Doped Active Fiber developed for high-efficiency, reliable, multi-kilowatt fiber lasers. The TrueLase fiber family uses TrueClad Low Index Polymer Coating, which has been specially developed for high reliability and performance. OFS said its production processes at OFS, which are designed for long lengths, guarantee consistently high quality with the lowest tolerances...

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Tech Update: Public Cloud experience for Private Clouds

Private clouds often prove to be difficult to maintain and upgrade, in part due to lack of qualified personnel. Bryan Thompson discusses new capabilities in HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition.https://youtu.be/XwmnmBa_c-oRecorded at HPE Discover 2023 in Las Vegas. Check out other Tech Updates on our YouTube Channel (subscribe today): https://www.youtube.com/@NextGenInfra and check out our latest reports at: https://nextgeninfra.io/ Have...

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IBM expands cloud offerings with Apptio acquisition

IBM agreed to acquire Apptio, a start-up specializing in financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software, for $4.6 billion. IBM said the acquisition will accelerate the advancement of its IT automation capabilities and enable enterprise leaders to deliver enhanced business value across technology investments.Apptio has three core SaaS offerings: ApptioOne: Hybrid cloud spend management and optimization capabilities...

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Pliops appoints Ido Bukspan as its new CEO

Pliops, a start-up offering a high-performance data processor for cloud and enterprise data centers, appointed semiconductor industry veteran Ido Bukspan as its new CEO, replacing Pliops co-founder Uri Beitler, who will become chief strategy & business development officer.Bukspan most recently served as SVP of Chip Design at NVIDIA, which went on to become NVIDIA's networking products. During his tenure with NVIDIA, Bukspan led Chip Design Networking,...

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Blueprint: You Can’t Find Flaws in 5G Apps if You Don’t Know What to Look For

 By Glenn Chagnot, Sr. Director of Product Management – Cloud, Spirent CommunicationsImagine you oversee a Communication Service Provider (CSP) organization transitioning to a cloud-native 5G architecture. You’ve put in extensive work building up skills to deploy and manage Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs), and you’re excited for the new agility and scalability of your telco cloud. But there’s a problem: the performance of one of your 5G...

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Nokia boosts its AirScale baseband with latest ReefShark silicon

Nokia is boosting its AirScale baseband portfolio with greate performance, capacity, and improved energy efficiency thanks to the latest generation of its ReefShark System-on-Chip (SoC) silicon.The rollout includes:Introducing Levante and Lodos – Next-generation baseband capacity cardsNokia introduces Levante, a 4G/5G capacity card that delivers ultra-performance. Levante doubles the number of supported Massive MIMO cells and yet reduces energy consumption...

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Tech Update: Preprovisioning Private Cloud Infrastructure at Equinix

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will pre-provision GreenLake private cloud resources at Equinix data centers to help customers accelerate their hybrid cloud deployments.In this video, Vishall Lall walks us through the strategic reasoning behind this move. Recorded at HPE Discover 2023 in Las Vegas.Check out other Tech Updates on our YouTube Channel (subscribe today): https://www.youtube.com/@NextGenInfra and check out our latest reports at: https://nextgeninfra.io/Have...

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Tech Update: SRv6 for Telco Clouds

In order to build clouds in a telecoms environment, you need to be able to (1) set-up the lifecycle of network functions, and (2) interconnect the network functions together. In this video, Martin Halstead explains how SRv6 can be used as a common management plane for telco clouds.Recorded at HPE Discover 2023 in Las Vegas. Check out other Tech Updates on our YouTube Channel (subscribe today): https://nextgeninfra.io/ and check out our...

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Aviatrix names Doug Merritt as CEO

Aviatrix appointed Doug Merritt as CEO and President, replacing Steve Mullaney. Merritt was previously CEO and President of Splunk. Under Merritt’s leadership, Splunk grew revenues from the equivalent of $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) to nearly $3 billion in 2022. “I’ve worked alongside Doug throughout much of his career and have watched him become one of the most successful and respected enterprise CEOs with an incredible...

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SpaceX completes 43rd launch of 2023

SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.The booster used for this mission had flown 8 previous times: CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and three Starlink missions.The mission marks SpaceX’s 43rd launch of the year. The company has completed 242 Falcon 9 missions to date.Starlink currently has 1.5 million subscribers ...

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EE brings temporary masts to major summer events

EE is deploying temporary 5G masts at major summer events across the UK.More than 5 million people are expected to attend a UK music festival this summer, with more than 350,000 fans at the Isle of Wight Festival, Download, Parklife, and Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Scotland.   Throughout the summer, temporary mobile masts are being installed at more music festivals across the UK, including:Latitude Festival (20th – 23rd July)Tartan Heart Festival...

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Arelion doubles capacity per fiber pair on long-haul route with L-band

Arelion has upgraded its existing Infinera FlexILS flexible-grid line system to support the L-band on a high-traffic route from Ashburn, VA to Atlanta. The upgrade doubles capacity per fiber pair, marking Arelion’s first route with active L-band capacity in service.Arelion, which plans additional L-band deployments on high-traffic routes in North America, said this innovation enables it to bring more capacity to market on a continent where long-distance...

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