NTT Achieves Less Than 1ms Latency, Below 1μs Jitter at 400Gbps

NTT's All-Photonics Network (APN) has achieved ultra-low latency over metro-area distances, demonstrating the potential for higher-performance data center interconnected.NTT published results of APN connections between its data centers near London and in Northern Virginia, achieving round-trip delays of less than 1 millisecond. These tests also showed significantly reduced jitter. Two data centers, HH2 in Hemel Hempstead and LON1 in Dagenham,...

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China Telecom achieves record 120 Tbps over single fiber

In a trial conducted with Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (YOFC) and ZTE, China Telecom Research Institute achieved a maximum real-time single-wavelength rate of 1.2Tbit/s, resulting in a single optical fibre single-direction transmission rate exceeding 120Tbit/s. The test used S+C+L bands over standard single-mode quartz optical fibre. The verification test has set new benchmarks in system bandwidth, algorithms,...

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Vantage Data Centers plans 2nd data center in Zurich

Vantage Data Centers unveiled plans for a second Zurich campus (ZRH2) supporting 24MW of critical IT capacity. This campus, the company’s 33rd globally, is located 30 kilometers north of Zurich’s City Center in Glattfelden. It is conveniently situated just over 20 kilometers from Vantage’s ZRH1 campus in Winterthur and 15 minutes from Zurich Airport.ZRH2 will have a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 square meters) of space for Vantage’s customers...

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Dell'Oro: Private Wireless RAN Revenues up ~40 Percent in 2023

Private Wireless Radio Access Network (RAN) revenue growth slowed in the fourth quarter on a year-over-year (Y/Y) basis; however, full-year revenues still accelerated around 40 percent in 2023, propelling private wireless to comprise around 2 percent of the overall RAN market.“Although public RAN is still fueling the lion’s share of the overall RAN capex and the overall investment levels are tracking below some of the initial projections provided...

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Crown Castle names Moskowitz as next CEO

Crown Castle appointed Steven J. Moskowitz as President and Chief Executive OfficerMoskowitz held several executive leadership roles over his 12 years at American Tower Corporation, including seven years as EVP and President, of the U.S. Tower business. During his tenure, American Tower’s U.S. operations became the largest and most profitable U.S. wireless infrastructure company, tripling in size to more than 20,000 cell sites and expanding the indoor...

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Teledyne LeCroy captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 traffic

Teledyne LeCroy introduced its Frontline X500e wireless protocol analyzer with Wi-Fi 7. The solution captures and correlates data from a wide range of communication technologies, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4-based technologies (including Matter, Thread, and Zigbee), or wired interfaces such as HCI-UART, USB, SPI, and Audio I2S.The Frontline X500e with its ability to handle 320MHz channel width and 4096 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation)...

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Renesas opens 300-mm wafer fab for power semiconductors

Renesas Electronics commenced operations at its Kofu Factory, located in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The Kofu Factory previously operated both 150mm and 200mm wafer fabrication lines under Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas, but ceased operations in October 2014. Renesas made the decision to re-open the factory in May 2022 as a 300-mm wafer fab to support the growing demand for power...

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