CyrusOne buys 57.6 acres in Loudoun County, Virginia

CyrusOne acquired a 57.6-acre land parcel in Loudoun County, Virginia for a future, state-of-the-art data center complex designed for hyperscale cloud providers and large-scale companies.“CyrusOne is excited to expand its investment in Loudoun County where we successfully operate 10 data centers at five campus locations in one of the most important digital gateway markets in the United States,” said company CEO Eric Schwartz. “With strong demand...

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OpenLight appoints Adam Carter as CEO

OpenLight, a start-up offering an open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers, has appointed Dr. Adam Carter as its Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Carter served as Chief Commercial Officer at Foxconn Interconnect and Oclaro. At Oclaro, he served as a member of the senior executive team from July 2014 to December 2018, when it was acquired by Lumentum Holdings for $1.85B. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Director and General...

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iliad secures EUR 300m loan from EIB

iliad SA has secured a €300 million loan from the European Investment Bank, bringing the total amount of EIB financing of France's leading alternative fiber operator to more than €1.4 billion.The funding will be used to accelerate the rollout of ultra-fast broadband in France, including in less dense and rural areas and improve the energy efficiency of digital services.With this agreement, the iliad Group, now Europe's sixth-largest mobile operator...

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O-RAN Alliance and ATIS sign MoU

O-RAN ALLIANCE and ATIS signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further both organizations’ mutual objectives to advance the industry towards more intelligent, open, virtualized and global standards-compliant Radio Access Networks (RAN).“O-RAN is welcoming the opportunity to work with ATIS,” said Alex Jinsung Choi, Chairman of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. “We look forward to the opportunity to consider ATIS adopting...

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Dell’Oro's Mobile RAN 5-Year Forecast Report

After four years of extraordinary growth that propelled the radio access network (RAN) market to reach new record levels, the RAN market is now transitioning from the expansion phase to the next phase in this 5G journey with more challenging comparisons and slower growth, according to Dell'Oro Group's newly published forecast report.  “It is still early days in the 5G journey but at the same time, the coverage and capacity phases that have...

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Red Hat aims for zero greenhouse gas emission

Red Hat aims to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030.Red Hat said its 2030 operational net-zero goal includes scope 1 and 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions associated with its electricity consumption in third-party colocation data centers. The company has been through a rigorous exercise to develop an emissions accounting profile which establishes a baseline year of 2019.To achieve the net-zero goal by 2030 or sooner,...

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Clearfield has shipped over 50 million fiber ports

Clearfield announced a big shipment milestone - over 50 million fiber ports of its craft-friendly, Labor Lite family of Clearview cassettes, FieldShield Assemblies, and YOURx Terminals. The company reports record-setting deployments in calendar year 2022, with over 8.5 million ports supplied during the year. “Success in the fiber broadband market is as much about execution as it is innovation,” said Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer...

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