NTT pioneers power transmission over optical fiber

NTT has successfully delivered electric power exceeding 1W to a remote location over more than 10 km using a single optical fiber. This achievement, which marks the world's first instance of maintaining high-speed and high-quality communication while transmitting power through an optical fiber, was accomplished in partnership with Kitami Institute of Technology, part of the National University Corporation Hokkaido Higher Education and Research System...

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BT tests liquid cooled network switches and servers

BT is trialling "precision liquid cooled" network switches using a solution provided by Iceotope and Juniper Networks QFX Series Switches, which are widely used in existing network cloud architectures. In addition to its trial with Iceotope and Juniper, BT will test the following liquid cooling systems, which were also demonstrated at BT Group’s Sustainability Festival:Precision Liquid Cooled networking servers and data centre equipment, with...

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Napatech debuts IPU powered by Intel Xeon + Agilex 7 FPGA

Napatech introduced a 200 Gbps IPU (infrastructure processing unit) based on the Intel IPU Platform F2000X-PL, which leverages an an Intel Xeon D SoC and Intel Agilex 7 FPGA.Napatech’s F2070XTM IPU is engineered for cloud, enterprise, and telecom data centers that are optimized for hybrid multi-cloud and edge-computing architectures, supporting applications that may be virtualized (virtual machines), cloud-native (containers), bare-metal and microservices-based.The...

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Prisma Photonics raises $20M for optical sensing of power grids

Prisma Photonics, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, raised approximately $20 million in a Series C round for its optical sensing technology for monitoring large-scale infrastructure, such as power grids.Prisma Photonics says its optical fiber sensing technology offers power transmission operators better ways to manage their grids. It allows them to maximize the electrical capacity of the current grid to increase the integration of renewable energy sources....

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Lumen expands its SASE with cloud-hosted gateways

Lumen introduced new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) features including:Security Service Edge (SSE) and cloud-hosted gatewaysSSE is a collection of integrated, cloud-centric security capabilities – including cloud-hosted gateways – that provide safe access to websites. It also includes the access and sharing of sensitive data and user permission management for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications provided by leading SD-WAN and security partners.Cloud-hosted...

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VIAVI offers Network Intelligence and Optimization on Google Cloud

Viavi released its NITRO AIOps on Google Cloud.Highlights:Network Performance Optimization: NITRO AIOps enables CSPs to proactively monitor and optimize network performance. By identifying potential bottlenecks and anomalies, CSPs can take timely actions to ensure seamless network operations and consistent, high-quality service delivery. Enhanced Customer Experience: With granular insights into customer behavior and usage patterns, the solution...

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