Wednesday, November 8, 2023

2023 Private Wireless Resource Site

 Realizing the Promise of Private 5G in 2024Private Wireless hit the market with significant buzz starting in 2021 (even though solutions had been available for many years prior). Unfortunately, 2023 saw market setbacks, leading industry analysts to cut their growth rate projections. Private Wireless remains promising with significant interest from CSPs and enterprises, but to achieve the promise of Private 5G in 2024,...

Photonic Inc. unveils its quantum in silicon, $140m in funding

Photonic Inc., a start-up based in Vancouver, unveiled its architecture for scalable, fault-tolerant, and unified quantum computing and networking platforms based on photonically linked silicon spin qubits. The company specializes in spin-photon interfaces in silicon, silicon integrated photonics, and quantum optics. Photonic's technology provides computing (with spin qubits), networking (via photons), and memory. Photonic links in silicon deliver...

Ventana Micro debuts 32-core RISC-V processor with UCIe

Ventana Micro Systems, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, unveiled the second generation of its Veyron family of RISC-V processors. The new Veyron V2, which claims to be the highest performance RISC-V processor available currently, features an UCIe chiplet interconnect. The company says its Veyron V2’s chiplet-based solutions provide advantages in unit economics, accelerating time to market by up to two years and reducing development...

Ciena milestone: 100,000 WaveLogic 5 800G Shipments

Ciena celebrated an important milestone: surpassing 100,000 modems shipped of its WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) programmable 800G technology for metro, long-haul, and submarine networks.“To reach this milestone of 100,000 WaveLogic 5 Extreme modems shipped is hugely significant for Ciena, and a testament to both the quality of our technology and the size of our global footprint. Our pursuit to push the boundaries of optical performance is far from over,...

Infinera posts preliminary Q3 revenue in $378 ~ $392m range

 Infinera announced that preliminary Q3 revenue is expected to be $378 million to $392 million, ahead of the midpoint of the company’s prior outlook of $361 million to $391 million. Preliminary non-GAAP net income (loss) per diluted share is expected to be $0.03 to $0.08, ahead of the company’s prior outlook of ($0.06) to $0.02.Infinera CEO David Heard said, “The third quarter was another solid quarter for us, with all key preliminary financial...

SES Space & Defense awarded $270m MEO contract

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a five-year, US$270 million contract to SES Space & Defense for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) low-latency, high-throughput satellite (HTS) services. The Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) includes end-to-end MEO managed services with HTS capacity, broadband services, gateway services, monitoring and control services, satellite terminal leasing and sales, field service representative (FSR) support, training...

Orange Business delivers Flexible SD-WAN with VMware

Orange Business announced Flexible SD-WAN with VMware as an embedded SD-WAN offering in its Evolution Platform.Orange Business says customers consuming Flexible SD-WAN with VMware via Evolution Platform will benefit from a global network of Super Points of Presence (PoPs). These Super PoPs are located strategically on the Orange Tier 1 global backbone, close to the customer and cloud providers, significantly lowering latency for applications and...

Optus suffers widespread outage across Australia

Optus experienced an Australia-wide blackout across its mobile and landline networks for most of Wednesday, November 8.  Service has now been restored.The company said the problem was a network fault, but did not elaborate.The outage impacted 10 million customers across the country.  The Australian government has launched an investigati...