MEF: Standardized APIs drive automation between service providers

Service Providers are increasingly looking to standardized APIs as the most efficient means of automated inter-carrier business functions, according to a newly published report from MEF. MEF has developed standards-based Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) business process APIs and operational APIs that uniquely provide the high fidelity (tightly defined context), plug-and-play interoperability, and extensibility. The report primarily focuses...

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2Africa cable reaches Port Said, Egypt

Telecom Egypt announed that the 2Africa subsea cable has landed in Port Said, on the Mediterranean coast approximately 250 km of Alexandria. This comes five months after the first landing in the Red Sea city of Ras Ghareb, located 100km south of the Zafarana cable landing station. The landing in Port Said also marks the completion of 2Africa installations on Egyptian territory. It is worth mentioning that Telecom Egypt completed 2Africa's terrestrial...

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C&W Networks and C&W Business rebrand as Liberty Networks

C&W Networks and C&W Business, which trace their heritage back to Cable & Wireless, the British telecommunications company founded in 1869, unveiled a new name and brand: Liberty Networks. As part of Liberty Latin America (LLA), Liberty Networks will focus on the continued development of its critical infrastructure platform serving carriers, hyper-scalers, and enterprise segments in Latin America and the Caribbean.Liberty Networks...

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KDDI and Ericsson place 5G base stations in underground vaults

KDDI is working with Ericsson on the deployment of 5G base stations in underground vaults. The idea is to save precious space in Japan's crowded cities to installing 5G base stations in “manhole-shaped” vaults. Power infrastructure would remain below ground with fiber connected to antennas on the ground level. This allows for fast permit process and deployment, while ensuring no visual impact on street environments.KDDI is the first communications...

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Ethernovia raises $64 million for automotive connectivity

Ethernovia, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $64 million in Series A funding for its work in connectivity for software-defined vehicles (SDVs).Ethernovia, which was founded in 2018 by RaminShirani and a team of experienced semiconductor innovators, is developing a seamless, holistic and streamlined hardware and software system with advanced networking features. The team includes Roy Myers, senior vice president of engineering; Hossein...

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Construction advances on Quantum Loophole's hyperscale fiber ring

Quantum Loophole, which is building a 43-mile fiber ring connecting the company’s 2,100+ acre Quantum Frederick data center campus in Maryland to the Ashburn, Virginia ecosystem, completed its North Potomac River Bore crossing, the second of two Potomac River crossings for the QLoop network conduit system. QLoop is designed to hold 34 conduits with full capacity of more than 235,000 strands of fiber. When complete, the system is designed to...

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AMS-IX Bangkok goes live

AMS-IX, together with HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) and International Gateway Company Limited (IGC), celebrated the launch of a major new Internet Exchange in the capital of Thailand.Under the terms of the partnership, HGC will serve as a commercial partner and marketing arm for AMS-IX Bangkok, while IGC provides IX infrastructure, network, and operation in Bangkok. AMS-IX, with their expertise on peering and network monitoring, will give...

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Samsung debuts first 128 GB DRAM with CXL 2.0

Samsung Electronics introduced the first 128-gigabyte (GB) DRAM to support Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0. The new CXL DRAM supports PCle 5.0 interface (x8 lanes) and provides bandwidth of up to 35GB per second.CXL is a next-generation interface that adds efficiency to accelerators, DRAM and storage devices used with CPUs in high-performance server systems. CXL 2.0 supports memory pooling— a memory management technique that binds multiple CXL memory...

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Montana's Triangle Communications upgrades with Ribbon's IP Optical

Triangle Communications, a telephone cooperative in  Montana, has upgraded its network with Ribbon's IP Optical solutions. The deployment includes Ribbon's NPT IP Routing and Apollo Optical Transport platforms.Triangle's network which covers 24,000 square miles from Chester to Malta and from the Canadian border to the Wyoming border. "We're incredibly proud of our long-term partnership with Triangle Communications and are pleased to continue...

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