Verizon Business partners with HCLTech for Managed Network Services

Verizon Business designated HCLTech as its primary Managed Network Services (MNS) collaborator in all networking deployments for global enterprise customers.HCL Technologies (HCLTech) is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company headquartered in Noida.Under the partnership, Verizon Business will continue to lead all customer acquisition, sales, solutioning, and overall planning and development with its customers....

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Tech Update: The AI Networking Bandwidth Challenge

Scaling network infrastructure for AI faces a daunting challenge. Compared to today's servers connected at 100 Gbps, AI clusters will demand 30 Tbps - a 300X increase.Nigel Alvares, VP of Global Marketing and Business Planning, Marvell, explains:- The current cloud AI infrastructure is facing a bottleneck issue due to the need for greater bandwidth connectivity between growing capabilities of GPUs, TPUs, and AI accelerators.- The solution to this...

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"Unpacking NaaS - Beyond Financing Models"

Will Network as a Service (NaaS) really change the way businesses operate?Neil Anderson, AVP, Cloud and Infrastructure from WWT discusses:- NaaS is not just a new financing model, it's a fundamentally different service that's changing the way businesses consume technology.- With NaaS, businesses don't own the equipment but consume it more like a home broadband model, paying a provider a certain amount per month for the service.- The key characteristics...

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IBM unveils analog AI chip for deep learning inference

 IBM Research introduced a mixed-signal analog AI chip for running a variety of deep neural network (DNN) inference tasks. The device has been tested to be as adept at computer vision AI tasks as digital counterparts, while being considerably more energy efficient.The chip was fabricated in IBM’s Albany NanoTech Complex, and is composed of 64 analog in-memory compute cores (or tiles), each of which contains 256-by-256 crossbar array of...

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Equinix to build fourth data center in Mumbai

Equinix plans to invest $42 million for its fourth International Business Exchange data center in Mumbai, India.Equinix currently has two IBX data centers in Mumbai, named MB1 and MB2. The two data centers are home to the digital infrastructure of more than 300 international and local companies, including access to the world's leading cloud service providers Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. They also host global networks, content...

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SES completes FCC's C-Band Transition Clearing

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has validated the certification of SES’s Phase II accelerated C-band clearing and relocation activities. With the help of trusted partners across the U.S., SES has completed all of its Phase II C-band clearing and relocation requirements and all transition activities put forth in its Transition Plan. Phase II activities included:* Launching five new satellites to continue enabling the broadcast...

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VIAVI posts revenue of $264 million, looks for stabilization

 VIAVI reported revenue of $263.6 million for its fourth fiscal quarter ended July 1, 2023, down from $335.3 million for the same period a year earlier.GAAP net loss was $(0.1) million, or $— per share. Non-GAAP net income was $22.7 million, or $0.10 per share."During the 2023 fiscal fourth quarter, we saw initial signs of stabilization and gradual recovery. Despite the slowdown in overall service provider spend, some service providers have begun to free up funds for network maintenance and optimization, which benefits VIAVI's NSE business...

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Zayo adds Bill Smith to its Board

Zayo announced the addition of Bill Smith to its board of directors. Smith most recently served as the interim CEO of PG&E – one of the nation’s largest utility companies – and remains a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to that, he spent over 37 years at BellSouth and AT&T, most recently serving as President of Technology Operations, where he oversaw over 100,000 badged employees and was responsible for all technology planning, engineering and operations for wireless and wireline networks worldwide. https://w...

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