Liquid selects Nokia for African optical transport backbone

South Africa-based Liquid Intelligent Technologies selected Nokia to deploy a next-generation optical transport network connecting Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The first-of-its-kind terrestrial network connecting submarine landing stations in Kenya, South Africa and DRC.  Nokia is deploying 145 nodes of 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) in the seven countries with a total design...

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DigitalBridge buys AMP Capital’s global infrastructure fund

DigitalBridge Group completed its acquisition of AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity investment management business in a transaction valued at $316 million, plus potential contingent payments based on certain future performance thresholds. The acquired business, which is based in London,  has been rebranded as InfraBridge. InfraBridge, comprises four investment funds with $5.6 billion in fee-earning assets under management, including...

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Telecom Italia hit by Internet outage

Telecom Italia's IP backbone suffered a multi-hour outage on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023, with traffic levels dropping by over 70%.A spokesman from TIM cited an international interconnection problem, according to Reuters.Also on Sunday, Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) warned of wide-scale cyber attacks on servers running VMWare ES...

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SK Telecom inspects cell towers using drones + image analysis AI

SK Telecom is using drone and image analysis AI to perform safety checks of its mobile towers.Developed by SKT’s in-house experts, the image analysis AI model is capable of determining the status of bolts and nuts by analyzing images taken by drones.SKT hopes to prevent accidents due to aging cell towers, while ensuring the safety of these personnel by minimizing the need to go up the cell towers.  Moreover, the company can drive up work productivity...

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NTT Ltd adds Palo Alto Networks' SASE to its menu

NTT Ltd. added Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE to its Managed Campus Networks portfolio. The new offering is a managed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution that includes SD-WAN, cloud-delivered security, and enhanced automation and reporting. The end-to-end solution is designed to help enterprises meet current digital transformation challenges and enable more flexible ways of working.“We are excited to partner with Palo Alto Networks to...

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Deutsche Telekom sells majority stake of its towers business

Deutsche Telekom completed the previously-announced, partial sale of its tower business in Germany and Austria, which is combined in the GD Towers unit, to DigitalBridge and Brookfield for more than 10 billion euros. GD Towers operates more than 40,000 mobile sites in Germany and Austria with around 800 employees. The company generated pro forma revenues of 1.1 billion euros in 2021. Adjusted pro forma EBITDA AL amounted to 640 million euros...

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