Zayo adds fiber routes connecting Paris and Marseille

Zayo has activated a new 400G enabled fiber route connecting Paris and Marseille.The new Paris-to-Marseille route 24 Tbps of expected capacity per fiber pair and offers critical path diversity options.Zayo notes that its new route will also provide direct access to Bordeaux—the landing city for Amitié, a new private transatlantic cable that will connect the U.S. with the UK and France. Once ready for service, the connection will enable direct access...

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SES demos satellite-enabled 5G backhaul

SES demonstrated its current generation O3b Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites for 5G backhaul .The proof-of-concept, which was held with du from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), saw numerous tests conducted over an SES’s O3b satellite, including voice and data scenarios to measure quality of service performance and stress test load capacity. The low latency and high throughput 5G backhaul link showed O3b is an ideal solution...

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Transpacific “Unity” cable doubles capacity with Infinera’s ICE6

The transpacific Unity Submarine Cable System, which spans 9,620 kilometers between Japan and the U.S., will double its capacity by upgrading to Infinera’s ICE6 solution. The upgrade is expected to increase the life span of the cable by nearly 25% and deliver up to 7.4 Tbps per fiber pair.The Unity Submarine Cable System is a subsea consortium representing Bharti Airtel Limited, Global Transit Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIME), Google,...

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IDC: Spending continues at fast clip for cloud infrastructure

 Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 24.7% year over year in the third quarter of 2022 (3Q22) to $23.9 billion, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment report.Some highlights from IDC:Spending on cloud infrastructure continues to outgrow the non-cloud segment although the latter had...

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What's next for data center technology in 2023?

 Will 800G pluggables arrive for data center switches in 2023?  Here are 3 predictions from Credo’s Scott Feller.https://youtu.be/DoPY_UOqtJQCheck out other 2023 PredictionsSee what other experts have to say on NextGenInfra.io  - https://nextgeninfra.io/2023-predictions/Amplify your MWC 2023 presenceLooking to record your video for our channel for our MWC 2023 Showcase in Barcelona? We will be there! Book your session no...

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PacketFabric and Unitas Global to merge

PacketFabric and Unitas Global have agreed to merge to become a larger Network as a Service (NaaS) platform. PacketFabric helps businesses build new secure, private network fabrics to connect their core sites, cloud assets and manage shifts in data gravity with their unique fabric integrated storage. PacketFabric Converge orchestrates on-demand connectivity across colocation facilities, cloud providers, and private network interconnection across...

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Deutsche Telekom cloudifies its Next Gen IMS platform

Deutsche Telekom announced some major deployment milestones with its NIMS (Next Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem) project to ‘cloudify’ and automate the core of its IP-based voice telephony platform. More than ten million voice subscribers have successfully been migrated. In addition, billions of interconnect voice minutes with approximately 100 Interconnect partners are now completely processed via NIMS.“With the launch of our NIMS platform,...

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What's next for edge services in 2023?

What are the prospects for virtualized services at edge locations in 2023? Here are 3 predictions from Zededa's Said Ouissal .https://youtu.be/x7iOEKlExtsCheck out other 2023 PredictionsSee what other experts have to say on NextGenInfra.io  - https://nextgeninfra.io/2023-predictions/Amplify your MWC 2023 presenceLooking to record your video for our channel for our MWC 2023 Showcase in Barcelona? We will be there! Book your session...

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