Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Arm readies IPO at $51.00 per ADS

Arm Holdings plc priced its initial public offering of 95,500,000 American depositary shares at a price to the public of $51.00 per ADS. The ADSs are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on September 14, 2023 under the symbol “ARM.”The selling shareholder, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., in the IPO has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 7,000,000 ADSs to cover over-allotments,...

Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft launch 5G Private Networks

Deutsche Telekom launched its new “Campus Network Smart” solution built on  Microsoft Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC), which includes the new Azure Private 5G Core service deployed on Azure Stack Edge. This provides customers with a private 5G network that can operate across multiple sites.Deutsche Telekom tested the new private 5G network solution with Microsoft in a lab environment in Bonn, Germany, last year. As a second step,...

SES partners with Starlink on MEO-LEO for cruise ships

SES is partnering with SpaceX on a low-latency, high-throughput satellite connectivity service enabled by integrating Starlink’s low-earth orbit (LEO) and SES’s medium earth orbit (MEO) constellations.The joint offering – SES Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink – seamlessly integrated, sold and delivered by SES – will combine the best of both MEO and LEO orbits to provide high-speed and secure connectivity 24/7 to cruise ships and their guests, regardless...

Adtran intros smallest Combo PON OLT

Adtran released its SDX 6324 optical line terminal (OLT), specifically designed to deliver high-performance broadband services to low-density applications. The new fiber access platform features four Combo PON ports supporting up to 500 subscribers. It offers the same capabilities of Adtran's higher-port count SDX solutions at a significantly lower upfront cost.“Service providers often struggle with small-scale deployments. Finding the right...

Deutsche Telekom demonstrates 12 Gbps with 6 GHz spectrum

Deutsche Telekom has demonstrated a mobile connection operating at 12 Gbps over 100m, made possible by the additional use of the frequency spectrum at 6 gigahertz (6 GHz). For the test, Telekom equipped a rooftop location in the town of Alzey in Rheinhessen with a 6 GHz antenna. In addition, an antenna was mounted that is already used today for the 5G mobile communications standard and transmits via the 3.6 GHz frequency band. During the measurements...

Tarana raises $50 million for next-gen fixed wireless

Tarana Wireless, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, raised $50 million in an up round for its next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform.Since launching its G1 in late 2021, Tarana reports deployments by more than 270 service providers in 19 countries, and in 41 of the 50 states in the US. Revenues in G1’s first full year of sales (2022) were nearly $100M, and orders plus sales continue to climb in 2023. These strong business fundamentals...

Vantage Data Centers replaces diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil

Vantage Data Centers is replacing diesel in its back-up generators with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). The company said it intends to roll out HVO in several of its largest markets in North America and EMEA.HVO is 100% biodegradable and non-toxic, offering a more sustainable fuel option while delivering the same level of functionality as traditional diesel. Repurposing waste oils like vegetable oil to create sustainable fuels significantly reduces...

EdgeUno upgrades data center interconnect with Ciena

EdgeUno, a leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company in Latin America, hasupgraded its data center interconnect network in Mexico and Brazil with Ciena’s Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform, powered by WaveLogic 5 Nano 400ZR coherent pluggables.EdgeUno has doubled its network capacity from 200G channels to 400G per channel, improved its cloud service offerings, and reduced its carbon footprint by optimizing data center space and reducing...

Texas A&M picks Ribbon's IP Wave for its Private 5G

 Texas A&M University (TAMU) has selected Ribbon's NPT IP Routing for wireless backhaul on its private 5G research network, which connects the labs at the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC) with Engineering and Computer Science labs on TAMU's main campus, the public safety training area at Disaster City, and the labs and testbeds at the RELLIS Campus.The network leverages Ribbon's advanced  NPT 1800 multi service aggregation...