JUPITER 3 geo-sat brings 500G capacity and 300 spot beams

On Friday, July 28, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Hughes JUPITER 3 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Three hours and twenty-eight minutes after lift-off, JUPITER 3 successfully deployed from the launch vehicle and the solar arrays were  unfolded in space to their full ten-story span. The satellite is now transmitting and receiving. It will undergo extensive bus and payload testing before entering service and augmenting...

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NTIA readies nearly $1 billion in 2nd round Tribal Broadband

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the availability of $980 million in funding  under the second round of funding from the Internet for All initiative’s Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). The funding is targeted at Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities for the deployment of Internet infrastructure on Tribal Lands, affordability...

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Dell’Oro: AI infrastructure spending propels data center CAPEX

AI infrastructure spending will propel data center capex to over a half trillion dollars by 2027, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. However, the report predicts near-term cloud and enterprise capex growth to decelerate as the market undergoes digestion.“Despite near-term data center capes growth headwinds as the major cloud service providers and enterprises optimize their infrastructure, forthcoming technology transitions will stimulate...

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DE-CIX expands interconnection footprint to Indonesia

DE-CIX plans to establish a joint venture company PT DE-CIX Indonesia, together with PT IDMarco Digital Solusi, a subsidiary of the Salim Group. The plan is to operate a distributed IX across multiple data centers in Jakarta using the DE-CIX Apollon platform. DE-CIX Jakarta will be connected to the existing DE-CIX ecosystem in Southeast Asia, now covering six metro markets: Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Brunei, and Manila....

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TPG Real Estate acquires 80% of Digital Realty’s NoVA data centers

TPG Real Estate will acquire an 80% stake in three of Digital Realty’s hyperscale data centers in Northern Virginia. The deal is structured as a join venture in which Digital Realty retainsa minority interest in the portfolio while continuing to manage the day-to-day operations of the assets.The three hyperscale data centers were contributed to the joint venture at an aggregate value of $1.5 billion.  The assets contain approximately 104 megawatts...

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Digital Realty posts Q2 revenue of $1.4 billion, up 20% YoY

 Digital Realty reported revenues for the second quarter of 2023 of $1.4 billion, a 2% increase from the previous quarter and a 20% increase from the same quarter last year.  The company delivered second quarter of 2023 net income of $116 million, and net income available to common stockholders of $108 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, compared to $0.19 per diluted share in the previous quarter and $0.19 per diluted share in the same...

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DZS debuts environmentally hardened fiber broadband solutions

DZS introduced an end-to-end, environmentally hardened fiber broadband solution.Highlights of the DZS FiberWay:The DZS Velocity Multi-Terabit OLT systems that deliver industry-leading, non-blocking performance and high density, including XGS-PON combo solutions today and the capacity to upgrade in-place to 50G PON and 100G PON in the futureThe DZS Saber 4400 Optical EDGE Transport platform bringing from 100G to 400G of middle mile transport capacity...

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Mitsubishi Electric pursues gallium-oxide wafers

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation acquired an equity position in Novel Crystal Technology, Inc., a Japanese company that develops and sells gallium-oxide wafers. Novel Crystal Technology, one of the world's first companies to develop, manufacture and sell gallium-oxide wafers for power semiconductors, and now a leading producer of these products, has manufacturing technology that Mitsubishi Electric will use in its production of gallium-oxide...

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