Meta releases Llama 2 LLM

Meta released Llama 2, its large language model with an open source license for research and commercial use. Microsoft is the preferred partner for Llama 2, however Meta announced support across a broad set of companies, including AWS, HuggingFace, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, IBM Qualcomm, data cricks, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, YCombinator, Palo Alto Networks, Andreessen Horowitz, MIT, etc.Llama 2 pretrained models are trained on 2 trillion tokens,...

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Enterprise Networking Alphabet Soup: Mastering Hybrid Workloads for AI

Wondering how to optimize your workloads in a hybrid world?Holland Barry, Field CTO from Cyxtera, explains:* The importance of running workloads in the right venue: With workloads being run in a variety of spaces including public Cloud, private Cloud, SAS Services, and the edge, it's crucial to align application requirements with the best attributes of each venue.* The rise of artificial intelligence in data center Colo space: Driven largely by large...

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Enterprise Networking Alphabet Soup: Navigating from SD-WAN to SASE

Wondering how to navigate the shift to hybrid working and cloud adoption while maintaining robust security?https://youtu.be/ey4gb74180ULaurent Perrin, Director of Product Management, Application Driven Networks from Orange Business Services explains:- The increasing demand for integrated security solutions in the infrastructure, with a strong move towards SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) which combines SD-WAN and security in a consistent manner.-...

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Dell’Oro: Optical transport equipment forecast increased

Optical Transport equipment demand is forecast to be $83 billion over the next five years. This cumulative revenue is up 10 percent compared to the previous five-year period and will largely be from sales of coherent DWDM systems, according to a newly published forecast report by Dell’Oro Group. “We slightly raised our outlook for Optical Transport equipment,” said Jimmy Yu, Vice President at Dell’Oro Group. “We believe the demand for long haul...

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Keysight intros 800GE test platform

Keysight Technologies introduced its AresONE-M 800GE Layer 1-3 Ethernet performance test platform, supporting data center interconnect speeds from 10GE to 800GE. The new Keysight AresONE-M 800GE enables design engineers and data center operators to validate networking equipment interoperability and bandwidth performance while supporting the transition to 400GE and 800GE networks with the capability to also test slower, legacy Ethernet speeds.Highlights...

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Cradlepoint outlines 5G SASE Strategy

Cradlepoint has announced a phased strategy for 5G-optimized Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). The solution features zero trust, cellular intelligence along with cloud and SIM-based security to address the challenges and threats faced by today’s extended enterprise. As enterprises evolve beyond fixed sites to include mobile and IoT, Cradlepoint believes that SASE must encompass Wireless WAN and 5G. With its recent acquisition of Ericom,...

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Microsoft adds service Provider partners to Teams Phone Mobile

Microsoft is expanding Teams Phone Mobile, its mobile-first, enterprise-grade calling solution that offers a single, business-provided mobile number to each employee as their Teams Phone number. Teams Phone Mobile is currently available in US, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, and will be available later this year in Denmark and Norway with Telia and in Liechtenstein with Swisscom.Microsoft also added numerous AI-driven features, such...

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Vodafone deploys Ericsson's single antenna technology

Vodafone has begun deploying Ericsson’s compact active-passive antenna in the UK to bring greater 5G capacity, coverage and performance without adding to antenna footprint.Ericsson’s Interleaved AIR 3218 combines an antenna-integrated radio and multiband passive antenna technology in one single enclosure, meaning additional high-performing 5G capacity can be added with no additional antenna footprint.Ericsson says the combination of radio and antenna...

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Malta’s GO plc deploys Nokia’s AVA Charging SaaS

Nokia’s AVA Charging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution has been chosen by GO plc, Malta’s leading communications provider, to help it accelerate the time to value of new offerings for 5G and IoT use cases, expanding the commercial relationship between the two companies.GO plc, a Nokia 5G RAN partner, will move from Nokia’s SurePay solution to AVA Charging SaaS, using software consumed on demand through a subscription that facilitates rapid customer adoption and usage by reducing the time spent on software installation and configuration. Deployment...

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Spark picks Ericsson as 5G Core supplier in New Zealand

Spark, one of New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services providers, selected Ericsson to supply its 5G Core solution to power Spark’s 5G Standalone (SA) network in New Zealand.The contract follows a three-month 5G SA trial in 2022, demonstrating the ease with which cloud-native core network solutions - to support 5G SA - can be deployed. The 5G SA trial was underpinned by Ericsson’s cloud-native 5G Core, and integrated with Spark’s 5G Fixed Wireless Access Network (FWA) to test enhanced wireless broadband. The trial’s success...

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Claro Perú to Bring 10G FTTH Offering to Market with Harmonic

Claro Perú, a unit of the América Móvil group, is extending Harmonic’s CableOS® Broadband Platform for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) to deliver next-gen broadband and 10G speeds. Claro Perú previously deployed Harmonic’s CableOS Platform in a distributed access architecture (DAA) with virtualized CMTS software, Reef Remote PHY (R-PHY) shelves and Ripple R-PHY nodes. By adding the CableOS Fin 10G SFP+ OLT to Ripple, Claro Peru can offer both 10G fiber and DOCSIS from the same node to rapidly deploy fiber service into new markets and strategically...

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