2023 Telco Cloud and Edge Mini Site

 CSPs are under pressure to determine which parts of their infrastructure are core, whom to partner with, when and where to use public clouds, and how much to extend their infrastructure to the edge and into customer premises. Converge! Network Digest and AvidThink are pleased to present a mini-website featuring short video episodes with leading cloud operators, network equipment vendors, and other key stakeholders in the multi-year, multi-technology...

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Windstream offers full fiber path view of wavelength circuits

Windstream Wholesale has launched a new capability that provides customers with a full fiber path view of their wavelength circuits using KMZ files through a customer portal.The newly available view is made possible by specialized Windstream mapping software using network data and customer segment identification. Customers equipped with a compatible mapping application, such as Google Earth, can download KMZs on demand, saving valuable time.Windstream’s...

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Cignal AI: Data center optical component revenue up 14% in 3Q22

Datacom optical component revenue recovered from two quarters of declines to post solid gains in Q3, led by 400GbE optical modules. Innolight and Coherent (formerly II-VI) drove growth with their expanded shipments into hyperscale applications, according to the most recent Optical Components Report from research firm Cignal AI. Lumentum remains the leading Telecom component supplier in this segment, in which overall revenue grew 6% YoY.“400Gbps was...

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EU allocates €150 million for 5G and backbone projects

The EU will provide nearly €150 million in financial support to 38 projects to deploy safe, secure and sustainable high-performance 5G and digital backbone infrastructure.The projects have been selected among those submitted under calls for proposals under CEF Digital, the funding programme supporting European digital infrastructure.Under the first Call for Proposals for the digital strand of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital), which closed...

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OIF to present at DesignCon 2023 in Santa Clara

At the DesignCon 2023, scheduled for Jan 31 – Feb 2 in Santa Clara, California, speakers from OIF will present on-going to address electrical interfaces optimized for new electrical and optical architecture aspirations, including 224 Gbps and the co-packaging of optical and electrical interfaces with ASICs.Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023: 4:45-6:00 pm PT Enabling Next Generation Co-Packaging Solutions Moderator: Jeff Hutchins, OIF Physical &...

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What’s next at OCP in 2023?

From immersion cooling, to optical switching, and disaggregated systems there are a lot of new technologies arriving at the Open Compute Project Project.  Which ones will be in the limelight in 2023?Here are 3 predictions from OCP’s Cliff Grossner .https://youtu.be/OSIpRJ2-1QY— 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...

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SES Secures €300M Financing from European Investment Bank

SES has secured €300 million in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the financing institution of the European UnionThe seven-year term loan will back investments related to the design, procurement and launch of three previously announced satellites that will deliver advanced broadcast and broadband services spanning Western Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The loan is the largest amount ever provided by the EIB to a Luxembourg-based...

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Samsung releases PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with 5nm controller

Samsung Electronics released a series of high-performance PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs powered by a new controller based on Samsung’s 5-nanometer (nm) process and seventh-generation V-NAND technology.Samsung’s PM9C1a boasts a 1.6x faster sequential read speed and a 1.8x faster sequential write speed than its previous storage offering (PM9B1), reaching 6,000 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 5,600MB/s, respectively. Additionally, random read and write speeds...

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Coherent intros 905 nm triple-junction lasers for LiDAR

Coherent Corp. introduced 905 nm triple-junction edge-emitting semiconductor lasers for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) in industrial applications.The new 905 nm semiconductor lasers can emit up to 100 W of optical power in nanosecond pulses. hey enable direct time-of-flight LiDAR systems in a wide variety of mission-critical robots exposed to challenging environments. Applications include warehouse logistics, consumer appliances, last-mile delivery,...

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NTT joins U.S. government's Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative

 NTT Corporation (NTT) has joined the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), an initiative established by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in 2021 to further strengthen the U.S. government focus on cybersecurity and boost resilience internationally.JCDC focuses on cyber defense planning, cybersecurity information fusion, and dissemination of cyber defense guidance to reduce risk to critical infrastructure and...

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