Tracing the DNA of Nokia through its many mergers and acquisitions

 Nokia’s recent announcement to acquire Infinera marks another significant step in the company’s extensive history of mergers and acquisitions. This deal aims to enhance Nokia’s networking capabilities, solidifying its position as a leader in the telecommunications industry. Over the years, Nokia has strategically acquired companies like Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, which greatly expanded its telecommunications equipment and services portfolio. This...

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CBRE Group acquires Direct Line Global for data center infrastructure

CBRE Group announced the acquisition of Direct Line Global, a provider of data center infrastructure, from Guardian Capital, a private equity firm. Financial terms were not disclosedDirect Line Global, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fremont, California, specializes in design, installation, maintenance, and management solutions for data center owners and operators, primarily serving the U.S. hyperscale market and major technology companies....

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Amazon begins satellite manufacturing for Project Kuiper

 In preparation for Project Kuiper’s first full-scale launch later this year, Amazon is starting up satellite production and testing at a new facility in Kirkland, Washington. Opened in April, this 172,000-square-foot factory is set to become the manufacturing hub for the more than 3,000 satellites that will comprise Project Kuiper’s low Earth orbit constellation. The facility includes advanced custom equipment and a clean space environment...

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New subsea cable lands at Timor-Leste

 On June 24th, 2024, the “Timor-Leste South Submarine Cable” (TLSSC) landed at the Cable Landing Station in Bebonuk, Dili. This groundbreaking project connects Timor-Leste to Darwin, Australia, marking a pivotal step in the nation’s digital transformation and showcasing its commitment to infrastructure development and modernization. The TLSSC is a significant advancement for Timor-Leste, an island nation situated in Southeast Asia, northeast...

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NTT DATA launches Tsuzumi AI model on Microsoft Azure

NTT DATA announced the launch of Tsuzumi through the Microsoft Azure AI Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering. This development marks a significant milestone in their 25-year collaboration, focused on creating technological solutions that drive sustainability and innovation. Tsuzumi, a Large Language Model (LLM) proficient in Japanese and English, addresses environmental and financial challenges by adjusting model size without compromising performance,...

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Astera Labs to open R&D site in Bangalore

Astera Labs, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California,  plans to expand its operations to India with a new site in Bangalore set to open later this year. This expansion aims to leverage the region’s rich engineering talent to develop advanced interconnect technologies essential for AI architectures in data centers. Sanjay Gajendra, President and COO of Astera Labs, highlighted India’s thriving market and world-class technical workforce...

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Nokia to acquire Infinera for $2.3 billion

Nokia has agreed to acquire Infinera for $6.65 per share, representing an enterprise value of US$ 2.3 billion and a premium of 28% to Infinera’s share price at the close of 26 June 2024.The combined entity will benefit from substantial in-house capabilities, including an expanded digital signal processor (DSP) development team and expertise in silicon photonics and indium phosphide-based semiconductor material sciences. Additionally, the merger will...

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Nokia to sell Submarine Networks business to French State

In a strategic move to streamline its portfolio, Nokia has announced plans to sell Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to the French government. The telecommunications giant will initially retain a 20% stake in the company, with the intention of a full exit in the future. This decision aligns with Nokia's focus on core markets and its goal to improve profitability in its Network Infrastructure business group.The proposed sale, which is subject to employee...

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Marvell debuts 1.6T PAM4 DSP for active electrical cables

Marvell introduced a high-performance, 1.6T PAM4 DSP for active electrical cables (AECs) designed for the greater connectivity bandwidth requirements between AI accelerators, server to top-of-rack links and switch-to-switch interconnects within data center racks..sThe new Marvell Alaska A 1.6T DSP, which leverages 5nm process technology and over a decade of Marvell PAM4 leadershio, features eight 200 Gbps SerDes lanes to the host device and eight...

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Etched.ai targets highest performance ASIC for AI transformers

Etched.ai, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, has introduced its Sohu ASIC, a specialized chip designed specifically for transformer architecture-based artificial intelligence models. According to the company, Sohu is capable of processing over 500,000 tokens per second in Llama 70B throughput, surpassing the performance of leading AI chips from Nvidia and other major players.Key Points:Sohu ASIC claims to be the fastest AI chip of all timeProcesses...

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Google Cloud and Gulf Edge to offer sovereign cloud in Thailand

Google Cloud has entered a multi-year agreement with Gulf Edge Company to provide sovereign cloud services in Thailand. This partnership aims to support organizations in critical industries with their digital transformation efforts by leveraging advanced AI and analytics capabilities. The services will adhere to Thailand’s stringent data residency, security, and privacy requirements, ensuring data, operational, and software sovereignty for customers.Key...

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Singtel and Hitachi Digital collaborate to 5G + AI

Singtel announced a new collaboration with Hitachi Digital, a provider of comprehensive digital transformation services and technologies. This partnership will combine Hitachi’s advanced AI expertise with Singtel’s Paragon platform, an integrated orchestration solution for 5G, edge computing, and cloud services.In the initial phase, Hitachi Digital will deploy the Paragon platform at Hitachi Americas’ Santa Clara R&D Labs. This will be followed...

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América Móvil consolidates its share in Chile's ClaroVTR

América Móvil and Liberty Latin America confirmed that América Móvil will be consolidating ClaroVTR into its ongoing operations. ClaroVTR is a Chilean telecommunications company that operates under a joint venture of the Mexican telecommunications giant América Móvil and Liberty Latin America.ClaroVTR was formed in 2000 through the merger of Chile's fourth and fifth largest telecommunications companies, VTR (owned by Telefónica) and Claro (owned...

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Intel highlights 4 Tbps optical compute interconnect chiplet

Intel announced an integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU, representing a leap forward in high-bandwidth interconnect by enabling co-packaged optical input/output (I/O) in emerging AI infrastructure. The prototype chiplet was demonstrated earlier this year at OFC 2024 (see video below).The fully Integrated OCI chiplet leverages Intel’s field-proven silicon photonics technology and integrates a silicon...

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Zayo selected for Nevada's Middle Mile project

The State of Nevada has awarded $153 million grant to Zayo to build, operate, maintain, and commercialize the state’s new Middle Mile Network project. Zayo will construct over 800 miles of the open-access, fiber optic network backed by funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology (OSIT) to provide robust broadband access to unserved and underserved communities...

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Türk Telekom carries 800Gbps over 2300km with Nokia

Türk Telekom International (TTI) used Nokia’s sixth generation of super-coherent Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s) technology to transmit an 800 Gbps single wavelength over 2,300 km -- a new distance record according to the companies.The real-world field trial took place on a highly loaded commercial network with no regeneration on C+L band WDM infrastructure.The two companies also conducted real-world demonstrations on similarly highly-loaded links...

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Nokia teams with Google Cloud on telco APIs

Nokia is collaborating with Google Cloud to enhance 5G enterprise and consumer applications through telco infrastructure. This partnership will leverage Nokia's Network as Code platform, which will run on Google Cloud, integrating Google Cloud's data and generative AI solutions, including Vertex AI and Gemini 1.5 Pro. This integration aims to improve the developer experience by providing AI capabilities and coding assistance tools, thereby boosting...

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Dell'Oro: campus Ethernet switch revenues dropped in Q1

Worldwide Campus Switch revenues dropped by 23 percent year-over-year (Y/Y) during the first quarter of 2024, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.  The only two vendors that grew Campus Switch revenues Y/Y in 1Q 2024 were Arista and Ubiquiti.“Vendor backlogs of campus switch orders have now been completely run down, and the market is in a multi-quarter digestion cycle,” said Siân Morgan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. “The shipments...

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NTT DATA and Zebra partner on 5G device ecosystem

NTT DATA has announced a strategic partnership with Zebra Technologies aimed at accelerating innovation within the 5G device ecosystem. The collaboration focuses on the development of devices designed for intelligent asset tracking and real-time monitoring in industrial and enterprise environments. These advancements are expected to significantly improve visibility, efficiency, and security in Industry 4.0 supply chain management.A key aspect of...

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Cadence previews Janus Network-on-Chip interconnect tool

Cadence Design Systems introduced its Janus Network-on-Chip (NoC) technology for managing data delivery between silicon components in complex SoCs and disaggregated multi-chip systems. The Cadence Janus NoC manages these simultaneous high-speed communications efficiently with minimal latency, enabling customers to achieve their PPA targets faster and with lower risk.The Cadence Janus NoC leverages Cadence's trusted Tensilica RTL generation tools...

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Telefónica and Nokia collaborate on 5G Standalone Network APIs

Telefónica and Nokia have announced an agreement to explore new opportunities for 5G Standalone (SA) network APIs, aimed at supporting developers in creating innovative use cases for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers. As part of this collaboration, Telefónica will utilize Nokia's NEF (Network Exposure Function) solution to provide developers with access to its 5G network capabilities.Nokia's NEF solution, based on 3GPP specifications,...

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