Dell'Oro: Sustained broadband spending through 2027

Sales of PON equipment for fiber-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fiber and DOCSIS 4.0 networks, while expanding the types of services they deliver to residential subscribers, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group."Service providers around the world continue to transition their broadband networks to fiber...

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Colt connects to new Barcelona Cable Landing Station

Colt Technology Services (Colt) is the first carrier to connect to AFT-IX's new Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS). AFR-IX Telecom is already using Colt’s network in the African market to provide an internet service to African operators and customers to connect them to European data centers via Colt’s routes.Colt operates in more than 220 cities in over 30 countries and connects more than 1,000 data centres and over 31,000 connected...

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Juniper reports strong Q4 momentum, sales up 11% yoy

Juniper Networks reported Q4 2022 revenue of $1,448.8 million, an increase of 11% year-over-year, and an increase of 2% sequentially. GAAP operating margin was 14.0%, an increase from 11.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021, and an increase from 10.6% in the third quarter of 2022.“We experienced strong business momentum during the December quarter, including a second consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, a record performance...

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Red Hat and Oracle announced a multi-stage alliance to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a supported operating system. With this strategic collaboration, certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and customers can also migrate existing workloads already running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI with greater confidence. OCI...

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Ciena upgrades Honotua subsea cable in French Polynesia

French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300 Gbps. The last stage of operations was successfully carried out in October 2022 thanks to the engagement and expertise of the ONATi, Intelia and Ciena teams.The Honotua international cable was upgraded using Ciena’s GeoMesh Solution powered by the 6500...

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Orange Belgium and Telenet sign wholesale agreements

Orange Belgium, which serves over three million customers, and Telenet have signed two commercial fixed wholesale agreements, which entry into force is subject to the completion of the transaction related to the acquisition of 75% minus one share of VOO by Orange Belgium. The agreements will provide access to each other’s fixed networks for a 15-year period and cover both current Hybrid Fiber Coaxial and future Fiber to the Home technologies...

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Orange Group appoints CEOs for France and Spain

Jean-François Fallacher has been appointed CEO of Orange France effective April 3, replacing Fabienne Dulac, who is moving to a new role after eight years at the helm of Orange France. Fabienne Dulac will remain on the Executive Committee and will contribute to the deployment of the upcoming strategic plan.Ludovic Pech, the current Chief Financial Officer of Orange Middle East & Africa, has been appointed CEO of Orange Spain, replacing Jean-François...

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