AWS sees long-term opportunities as it faces short-term headwinds

AWS faces short-term headwinds, writes Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in a letter to investors dated 13-April-2023, due to companies "being more cautious in spending given the challenging, current macroeconomic conditions."  Nevertheless, Jassy says AWS continues to invest in cloud infrastructure and customer development for the long term.Some notes from his letter:AWS revenue amounted to $80B in 2022, with about 90% of Global IT spending still on-premises...

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AWS previews its generative AI service

AWS kicked off a limited preview of Amazon Bedrock, a new service that makes very large models that are pre-trained on vast amounts of data and commonly, referred to as Foundation Models (FMs), from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon accessible via an API. Bedrock enables customers to build and scale generative AI-based applications using FMs, The service will offer the ability to access a range of powerful FMs for text and images—including...

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Sparkle boosts global optical transport with Nokia, Infinera

Sparkle is upgrading its global optical terrestrial and subsea networks with solutions supplied by Infinera and Nokia.With the deployment of C band + L band (“C+L”) photonic nodes on the terrestrial links in Europe, Middle East and South America, Sparkle further increases its transmission capacity up to 38.4 Tb/s per fiber pair, thus providing high-performance, scalable, and guaranteed connectivity services up to 800G per wavelength between key locations. The...

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Zayo adds low-latency transatlantic cable route

Zayo announced a new direct subsea cable route connecting Manchester to New York.The route avoids avoids backhauling to global Internet hubs in London and Paris, reducing transatlantic latency and enabling a better user experience.“Cultivating an enhanced performance for our customers is at the forefront of Zayo's mission,” said Yannick Leboyer, Europe Chief Operating Officer at Zayo. “The new subsea route is Zayo’s latest step towards providing...

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Missouri's CEPC deploys Infinera's XT

Central Electric Power Cooperative (CEPC) deployed Infinera’s XTM Series to modernize and significantly increase capacity on its existing rural broadband network across the state of Missouri. CEPC is an electric generation and transmission cooperative in Missouri that spans 22,000 square miles, providing power for eight distribution cooperatives, and operates an extensive rural optical network that supports critical infrastructure telecommunications...

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Ekinops reports Q1 revenue of €31.9 million, up 15%.

Ekinops reported consolidated revenue of €31.9 million, up +15 and in line with annual guidance of more than +12% revenue growth on a full-year basis. At constant exchange rates, growth for the quarter ended at +14%.Key points:Growth in all business lines, with +32% for Optical Transport, which was boosted by the continued success of WDM systemsAccess solutions reported quarterly growth of +2%. It should be noted that growth in France remained brisk,...

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EFFECT Photonics adds to team

EFFECT Photonics announced the appointments of Dr. Ted Schmidt as Senior Vice President of Product Development, Tony Englese as Vice President of Operations, and Veronique Gremmen-de Groot as lobal Head of Resources.Schmidt has over 20 years of fiberoptic transceiver development experience, delivering advanced optical technologies for industry leaders such as Lumentum, Juniper Networks, OpNext, and Stratalight Communications. With a PhD in Physics,...

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