Telstra commercial 5G sites go live with Ericsson Cloud RAN

Telstra is the first operator in the world to activate Ericsson’s Cloud Native Infrastructure solution (CNIS) for Cloud RAN in a live commercial 5G network. CNIS is a bare metal infrastructure that is specifically optimized for hosting cloud-native 5G applications both at central data centers and at the edge. Ericsson says the combination of Cloud RAN running on CNIS as a system-verified solution reduces Telstra’s deployment and operational...

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KKR invests in Peru’s first open access fiber network

KKR will acquire a majority interest in PangeaCo and the existing fiber optic networks of Telefónica del Perú and Entel Perú to build Perú’s first nationwide open access wholesale fiber optics company. Financial terms were not disclosed, although KKR said it plans to make approximately US$200 million of additional investment to more than double the ultra-fast fiber network from more than 2 million homes passed today to reach 5.2 million homes passed...

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IDC: Worldwide public cloud services topped $500B in 2022

Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $545.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 22.9% over 2021, according to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker.Software as a Service – Applications (SaaS – Applications) continued to be the largest source of public cloud services revenue, accounting for more than 45% of the total in 2022. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) was the second largest revenue category with...

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CyrusOne to build sixth data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, named FRA6, following the acquisition of the Europark site in Sossenheim, which is situated in close proximity to several operational CyrusOne Data Centers.The new data center will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level delivering 18 MW. The acquired site encompasses over 27,500 square meters (6.8 acres) of land.“The acquisition of the Europark site...

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SpaceX completes 2 Starlink launches over weekend

SpaceX completed 2 Starlink missions over the past few days, bringing the numbers of Starlink satellites in orbit to approximately 4,768.On Sunday, July 9 at 11:58 p.m. ET SpaceX launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida.  This is the 16th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21,...

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RIP: James Q. Crowe, 74, known for MFS Com, Level 3

James Q. Crowe, a technology and telecommunications visionary and  founder of Level 3 Communications, passed away on July 2nd  in Paradise Valley, Arizona, after a battle with pulmonary arterial hypertension. He was 74.In 1988, Crowe is credited with launching MFS Communications, the first company to bring robust local competition to the Baby Bells via fiber optic communication technology. He took MFS public in 1993 and built it rapidly...

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