Arelion doubles capacity per fiber pair on long-haul route with L-band

Arelion has upgraded its existing Infinera FlexILS flexible-grid line system to support the L-band on a high-traffic route from Ashburn, VA to Atlanta. The upgrade doubles capacity per fiber pair, marking Arelion’s first route with active L-band capacity in service.Arelion, which plans additional L-band deployments on high-traffic routes in North America, said this innovation enables it to bring more capacity to market on a continent where long-distance...

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Tech Update: LLM-as-a-Service via Supercomputer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise offer large language models on a cloud subscription basis. The upcoming service will use HPE's supercomputing resources attained via its acquisition of legendary supercomputing pioneer Cray Inc. in 2019.https://youtu.be/GvVk4izNCY0In this video, Edmondo Orlotti discusses the LLM-as-a-Service model, how and where it will be deployed, and additional resources that HPE brings to the table.Recorded at HPE Discover 2023 in Las...

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Verizon tests 5G network slicing

Verizon recently demonstrated multiple network slices using a commercially available smartphone, virtualized and non-virtualized RAN equipment in production in the field, and Verizon’s multi-vendor 5G standalone core.. This end-to-end test successfully accessed network slicing capabilities from the device and validated the ability for the device chipset, operating system, application, radio network base station, and the core of the network to...

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Argonne National Lab advances Aurora supercomputer

The Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, which is a collaboration of Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Department of Energy (DOE), reached a milestone with the installation of  all 10,624 compute blades, boasting 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series and 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors.The system incorporates more than 1,024 storage nodes (using DAOS, Intel’s distributed asynchronous object storage),...

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Vertical Systems: 2022 Global Provider SD-WAN LEADERBOARD

Vertical Systems Group announces that the following eight companies attained a position on the year end 2022 Global Provider Carrier Managed SD-WAN LEADERBOARD (in rank order based on site share outside of home country as of December 31, 2022): AT&T (U.S.), Orange Business (France), Verizon (U.S.), BT Global Services (U.K.), NTT (Japan), Telefonica Global Solutions (Spain), Hughes (U.S.), and Vodafone (U.K.). This industry benchmark for multinational...

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AWS to invest $100 million in Generative AI Innovation program

Amazon Web Services disclosed its intention to invest $100 million in a AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. The program aims to connect AWS AI and machine learning (ML) experts with customers around the globe to help them envision, design, and launch new generative AI products, services, and processes. “Amazon has more than 25 years of AI experience, and more than 100,000 customers have used AWS AI and ML services to address some of their biggest...

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Yokogawa enhances its Optical Spectrum Analyzer

Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation released an upgraded optical spectrum analyzer equipped with features that enhance performance and improve usability. The instrument (AQ6370E) can be used to characterize a wide range of components, including lasers for optical communications, optical transceivers, and optical amplifiers.One of these new features is HCDR (high close-in dynamic range) mode, with which a user can measure a single longitudinal...

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