Google Fiber advances to 20G symmetrical residential service

Google Fiber is deploying Nokia’s 25G PON solution to enhance its existing fiber network and deliver a new 20 Gig broadband service to customers through GFiber Labs.Gfiber expects to be offering residential 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 an early access offering to a small group of GFiber customers in select areas by the end of the year.Nokia’s 25G PON solution enables GFiber to reuse its existing optical fiber cables and active equipment deployed in their network...

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Nokia: Global network traffic to grow at 22-25% CAGR thru 2030

Thanks to AI, ML, extended reality (XR), digital twins, automation, and billions of new devices, traffic on global telecom networks will grow at a CAGR of 22% - 25% for the rest of this decaded, according to the newly-published Nokia Global Network Traffic 2030 report.In the Global Network Traffic 2030 report, Nokia projects that global network traffic demand will reach between 2,443 to 3,109 exabytes (EB) per month in 2030. If there is a higher...

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DC Blox plans data center campus in Douglasville, Georgia

DC BLOX unveiled plans for a new 180MW data center campus in Douglasville, Georgia, in close proximity to Atlanta. The 55-acre campus will directly connect to DC BLOX’s dark fiber network and its new cable landing station in Myrtle Beach, SC.With an expected capital investment of over $1.2 billion, the site is supported by robust tax incentives coordinated by Elevate Douglas Economic Partnership. Construction of the new data center campus is now...

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AWS adds EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Workloads

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, a new consumption model providing access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity for short duration machine learning (ML) workloads. The service enables customers to reserve hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs colocated in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters designed for high-performance ML workloads. Customers can use EC2 Capacity Blocks with P5 instances,...

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Intel schedules "AI Everywhere" event for Dec 14th

Intel announced plans for an “AI Everywhere” event in December 14th. Intel will accelerate its execution engine and power AI workloads across the data center, the cloud and the edge with the launch of 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and Intel Core Ultra processors.The event will be hosted on the Intel website.https://newsroom.intel....

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Lumen integrates Network-as-a-Service with Equinix Fabric

 Lumen is integrating its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform with Equinix Fabric, enabling  Equinix's 10,000 customers to instantly buy, use, and manage Lumen Internet On-Demand and future Lumen NaaS services.How it WorksAn Equinix customer orders Lumen Internet On-Demand using Lumen's digital portal or API.The customer provisions a virtual connection in Equinix Fabric and connects it to the Lumen port.After the customer is connected...

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Lumen reaches agreement with creditors to extend financing

Lumen Technologies reached an agreement with a group of creditors holding over $7 billion of the outstanding indebtedness of the company and its subsidiaries to, among other things, extend maturities of the debt instruments of the Company and Level 3 Financing, Inc. In addition, the creditors have committed to provide $1.2 billion of financing to the company through new long-term debt. "After several months of constructive discussions,...

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O2 Telefónica Germany tests Open RAN with Samsung

Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica today announced that the companies will test advanced cloud-native vRAN and Open RAN technologies in Germany.  This will include several tests in both lab and field. O2 Telefónica and Samsung will begin conducting initial tests of 4G and 5G vRAN and Open RAN technologies in a lab located at Munich, Germany. The companies will then carry out field tests in a commercial 5G network in Landsberg am Lech,...

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