HPE to acquire Axis Security, an SSE provider

Hewlett Packard Enterprise agreed to acquire Axis Security, a cloud security provider based in Tel Aviv, Israel.Axis Security’s SSE offerings enable access to corporate and public-cloud resources, and the company’s cloud-based platform will build on Aruba’s existing Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and network firewall offering. This combination will provide a complete edge-to-cloud SASE solution, ensuring that Zero Trust security controls...

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Infinera unveils coherent optical subsystems and coherent pluggable engines

Infinera unveiled a new portfolio of coherent optical subsystems and coherent pluggable optical engines, including a line of high-performance transmit-receive optical sub-assemblies (TROSAs), innovative programmable digital signal processors (DSPs), and a line of high-performance, intelligent pluggable optical transceivers.Building Block ComponentsAdvanced coherent TROSAs – leveraging Infinera’s U.S.-based, in-house indium phosphide (InP) fab, the...

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Infinera previews 1.2 Tb/s ICE7 and expands GX platform

Infinera previewed its next generation GX Series Compact Modular Platform, which will feature a new 1.2 Tb/s optical engine ICE7 and a multi-haul optical line system.  The next gen GX will support multiple generations of high-speed transponders, and a variety of traffic grooming sleds on a single platform combined with native open APIs and streaming telemetry capabilities.The 1.2 Tb/s ICE7 optical engine leverages Infinera’s vertically integrated...

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Ayar Labs demos 4-Tbps optical interconnect

Ayar Labs will demonstrate the first 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bidirecti onal Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical solution at the upcoming Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) in San Diego on March 5-9, 2023. At OFC, Ayar Labs will show its optical I/O solution moving data from one TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet to another at 2.048 Tbps each direction powered by their SuperNova light source. SuperNova powers 8 fiber links (using...

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Orange shows experimental end-to-end 5G SA platform

At #MWC23, Orange disclosed details on its end-to-end cloud-native 5G SA experimental multi-cloud network, named Pikeo. This experimental network runs over two locations in France to date and is currently used by internal employees. The trial will be extended soon to a third site in Spain for internal use.The Pikeo 5G SA network is multi-cloud and is deployed:either on an on-premises Orange Telco Cloud infrastructure, operated by Orange, and...

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T-Mobile details 4X carrier aggregation performance > 3 Gbps

T-Mobile US has aggregated four channels of mid-band spectrum on its 5G standalone (5G SA) network with the Samsung Galaxy S23, working with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Samsung. The carrier reports speeds above 3.3 Gbps.T-Mobile US also expanded VoNR to four new cities: Cincinnati, OH; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; and Seattle, WA.“We are working with industry leaders around the globe to move the 5G ecosystem forward for the...

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ColorChip announces Chip-on-Board AEC for 800G and 1.6Tbps

ColorChip introduced chip-on-board technology for active electrical cables, enabling high density 1.6T OSFP-XD with significant improvements in both performance and cost. This innovation addresses the challenges of density, reach, power consumption and higher bandwidth required for the new OSFP-XD form factor and can also be leveraged to produce best-in-class solutions for 800G AEC applications.ColorChip said that by removing the lossy and bulky...

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Telefónica validates network APIs with AWS

Telefónica validated the integration of their network application programming interfaces (APIs) with the Pilot AWS Wavelength Zone in a Telefónica Edge location in Madrid in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).This provides developers the ability to combine AWS edge services with quality on demand (QoD) specialized services from Telefónica. Telefónica is launching an Early Adopter Program to empower the developer community to carry out a...

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