Google previews A3 GPU VMs with NVIDIA H100s + scalable data fabric

Google unveiled its next-generation A3 GPU VMs designed for training and serving the most demanding generative AI and large language model applications.Google Compute Engine A3 VMs combine NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Google’s custom-designed 200 Gbps IPUs. The design leverages GPU-to-GPU data transfers bypassing the CPU host and flowing over separate interfaces from other VM networks and data traffic. Google says this innovation enables up to...

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Arelion adds high-capacity East Coast route

Arelion has deployed a new fully diverse, high-capacity route from Reston, VA down the U.S. East Coast, connecting directly to the Telxius cable landing station in Virginia Beach, then continuing to Arelion's new Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Raleigh, NC before connecting into Charlotte, NC and continuing south into Jacksonville, FL and Miami, FL. The route will be live in Q3. Arelion's new route leverages open optical line systems to support multi-vendor...

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Microsoft signs fusion power purchase agreement with Helion

Microsoft signed a first of its kind agreement with Helion Energy to purchase electricity from a fusion power plant. Helion, a start-up based near Seattle, has been developing fusion technology for more than a decade. The company has previously built six working prototypes and was the first private fusion company to reach 100-million-degree plasma temperatures with its sixth fusion prototype. The company is currently building its seventh prototype,...

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SES now serves 369 million TV homes worldwide

SES now delivers more than 8,000 channels to a total of 369 million TV homes worldwide, an increase of three million over the previous year. The overall growth was driven primarily by increases in Europe (+6.3 million) and Africa (+3 million), with stabilisation in Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The reach in North America (-5.4 million) continues to decline due to the ‘cord cutting’ trend and the continued expansion of fibre connectivity in...

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Orange tests Google’s generative AI in contact centers

 Orange is testing generative AI from Google Cloud in a next-gen contact center.Generative AI could be used to transcribe the call, summarize the exchange between the customer and service representatives, and suggest possible follow up actions to the agent based on the discussion.Google Cloud said the experiment has the potential to dramatically improve both the efficiency and quality of customer interactio...

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MOX deploys Ciena for 400G wavelength service

MOX Networks will be deploying Ciena’s 6500 flexible grid Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) photonic layer with WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics to enable multi-terabit capacity on its dark fiber network in the US. Both 100G and 400G connectivity will be offered on MOX network segments in the Pacific Northwest region and on Midwest fiber routes connecting the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Ciena confirmed that...

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IonQ appoints VP of R&D

IonQ, a quantum computing start-up, appointed Pat Tang as Vice President of Research and Development. Tang most recently served as an Engineering Vice President at Amazon Lab126, where he led engineering teams behind the Kindle, Echo, FireTV, and emerging devices group. Previously, as a team lead at Apple, Tang designed and managed the testing and development of several hardware products. He earned his PhD in the solid-state physics group at...

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