Colt deploys new dark fibre along Channel Tunnel from London to Paris

Colt Technology Services completed the deployment of a new dark fibre (G.652D/G.657) cable along the Channel Tunnel connecting London (UK) to Paris (France).Colt’s new fibre network will provide businesses and organisations with faster, more reliable, and uninterrupted data connectivity across borders. It will also support the growing demand for cloud computing and other digital services in both London and Paris, with a seamless end-to-end SLA.Colt,...

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SES connects AWS Modular Data Center for Defense Department

SES Space & Defense has begun offering satellite-powered network connectivity for AWS Modular Data Center for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) applications.In February 2023, AWS announced the availability of AWS Modular Data Center to the DoD under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. SES’s multi-orbit, multi-band global fleet of satellites with AWS Modular Data Center can enable defense customers to access low-latency,...

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Dell'Oro: Broadband equipment spending up 7% in 1Q

Total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market increased to $4.6 B in 1Q23, up 7 percent year-over-year (Y/Y), according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Spending on infrastructure remained robust. However, ONTs. Modems, and other CPE units to connect broadband subscribers, dropped 7 percent Y/Y."For many service providers, broadband subscriber growth is slowing, resulting in a reduced need for new CPE," said Jeff Heynen, Vice...

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Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024

Equinix plans to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024, following its expansion announcement last year to enter Malaysia with a data center in Johor. As Malaysia enters Phase 2 of its MyDIGITAL blueprint for a digital economy, demand for digital infrastructure is expected to remain robust. According to Synergy Research, Malaysia is already the third largest data center colocation market in the ASEAN region, and is forecast to...

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Toshiba and Classiq to collaborate on gate-based quantum

Toshiba Digital Solutions and Classiq Technologies, a start-up based in Israel, signed a technology collaboration agreement focused on gate-based quantum computing.Quantum computers can be broadly classified into two types which are the Ising machine type and the gate-based universal computer. While the Ising machine is specialized in solving combinatorial optimization problems, the gate-based is intended for general-purpose applications. Toshiba...

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