NTT Research is expanding its OneVision facility in Sunnyvale, California. Kazuhiro Gomi, CEO of NTT Research, discusses optical research underway at the lab and potential applications in the quantum rea...
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Lumen launches 400G wavelength service in Europe
Lumen Technologies launched 400 Gbps (400G) wavelength services on key routes across Europe. The company reports significant demand for 400G wavelength services from enterprises, government agencies, hyperscalers and wholesale customers seeking high-bandwidth interconnections between their data centres and public cloud.Lumen has deployed its intercity 400G wavelength network in Europe across 50 markets. In EMEA, the Lumen network spans approximately...
MEF to Host its First Annual Network-as-a-Service Event
MEF announced its first annual Global Network-as-a-Service Event (GNE) designed to showcase the latest developments and roadmaps for secure network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings for enterprises and businesses. The event will attract senior executives and decision makers from retail, wholesale, and mobile service providers, data center providers, cloud service providers, enterprises, technology solution providers and the press and analyst community....
STACK Infrastructure closes $250 million for data centers
STACK Infrastructure, a leading global developer and operator of data centers, announced the issuance of $250 million in securitized notes priced at a fixed rate coupon of 5.900%. Cumulatively, STACK has raised a total of $2.1 billion in Notes, rated “A-” by Standard & Poor’s, via its master trust program.STACK’s growth continues to outpace the industry with a portfolio of more than 1GW of built and under development capacity, 2+GW...
Dell'Oro: Global Data Center Capex up 15% in 2022
Global data center capex grew 15 percent to $241 billion in 2022, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group. However, Dell'Oro is forecasting that cloud and enterprise data center spending will decelerate to single-digit growth in 2023.“The hyperscale cloud service providers have undergone a robust expansion cycle for three straight years while navigating through a supply constraint environment,” said Baron Fung, Senior Research Director at...
Ericsson and Mediatek test 4X carrier aggregation
Ericsson and MediaTek have successfully merged four channels – one FDD (frequency division duplex) and three TDD (time division duplex)– to deliver a downlink speed of 4.36 Gbps, the highest known speed based on this band combination. This four-component carrier (4CC) aggregation combination will increase the 5G deployment options for communications service providers by blending different frequency bands.The downlink peak rate of nearly 4.4 Gbps...
Cisco and Telenor test as-a-service business models
Cisco and the Telenor agreed to explore an everything as-a-service (XaaS) flexible and scalable model to reach a broader partner ecosystem and customer base.The companies seek to accelerate the flexibility, scalability, and availability of cybersecurity solutions as-a-service for both business and consumer customers. The companies will also work to design and demonstrate how multi-cloud as-a-service can help business customers use multiple clouds...
