Adtran joins Software enabled Fiber optic multisensing Network project

Adtran has joined the EU-funded Software enabled Fiber optic multisensing Network (SoFiN) project, which is developing a flexible platform for fiber-based sensing applications in critical infrastructure. The platform will measure properties such as strain, temperature, vibration and acoustics through interrogator and sensor technology, cloud connectivity and AI-based signal interpretation. Adtran is leading the development of the interrogator platform...

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Dell'Oro: Worldwide telecom CAPEX to decline in 2023

Worldwide telecom capex—the sum of wireless and wireline telecom carrier investments—increased at a low-single digit rate year-over-year in nominal USD terms in 2022, down from the high-single digit growth in 2021, according to a new forecast report from Dell'Oro Group. This moderation in the capex growth rate was consistent with the aggregate telco equipment trends previously communicated regarding the six Dell'Oro telecom programs (Broadband Access,...

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Vantage signs Investment Partnership to fund EMEA expansions

Vantage Data Centers will form an Investment Partnership with a consortium of investors led by funds affiliated with the investment management platform of DigitalBridge, MEAG and Infranity (together with other investors).The transaction values the Investment Partnership, which is related to certain stabilized European assets, at approximately €2.5 billion (approximately $2.7 billion), including Vantage’s stake. The additional capital raised by the...

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HPE intros File, Block and Data Protection Services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new file, block, disaster and backup recovery data services that deliver scale-out, enterprise-grade performance for data-intensive workloads.The new file and block offerings leverage a flexible hybrid cloud architecture through HPE Alletra Storage MP and are available through HPE GreenLake. HPE GreenLake for File Storage provides a scale-out service to accelerate processing of data-intensive workloads through...

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KT appoints interim CEO following succession turmoil

KT has appointed Park Jong- Ook, Head of Corporate Planning Group, to serve as interim CEO.This follows the resignation of Ku Hyeon-Mo as the CEO of KT due to personal reasons, as well as the resignation of two outside directors, Kim Dae-You and Yu Hee-Yol, who expressed heavy responsibility for recent events. Earlier in March, the company's board of directors considered 5 other candidates for the top role, but these plans fell apart.KT has...

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Virgin Media UK hit by service outages

Virgin Media was impacted by multiple service outages on April 4th beginning in the morning and extending throughout the day. The disruption impacted the company's contact centres as well as its broadband subscribers across the UK.Virgin Media apologized on Twitter for the disruption but has not posted an explanation.On its blog, Cloudflare analyses the traffic drop to UK ISP Virgin Media backbone (AS5089).https://blog.cloudflare.com/virgin-medi...

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Oracle to open 2nd cloud region in Singapore

Oracle plans to open a second cloud region in Singapore.The new region, which is one of 10 planned public regions to join the 41 regions that Oracle currently operates, will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.“Our upcoming second cloud region in Singapore will help meet the tremendous upsurge in...

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