The 5 Gig offer starts at $154.99 a month with autopay and includes uncapped data + Wi-Fi router + free installation + premium tech support.
“We set a standard with network-wide 2 Gig internet last year, and now we’ve done it again,” said John Harrobin, Frontier’s Executive Vice President of Consumer. “Our 5 Gig offer meets the growing demand for multi-gig speeds and delivers the ‘un-cable’ experience by making the fastest upload and download speeds available throughout our fiber network.”
NTT Ltd., e of the world’s top 3 data center service providers, is deploying Liquid Immersion Cooling (LIC) and Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technologies at its Navi Mumbai Data Center. India becomes the first country across NTT’s global data center platform to deploy these alternative cooling technologies.
The one-of-its-kind facility is part of its Mahape campus, which has a capacity of 4.8 MW spread over 13,740 square feet area built. The campus is planned with the capacity for up to 4 data centers, reaching up to 150 MW of IT load.
Speaking about this, Mr Sharad Sanghi, Managing Director of NTT Ltd. in India & Acting Senior Executive Vice President, Data Center and Marine Cable, NTT Ltd. said, “At NTT, we are guided by the principle of universal wellness, a people-first approach for our own personnel, the communities we operate in, and the overall global environment. The deployment of green data center technologies as demonstrated by this facility is going to be a tremendous validation for alternative cooling technologies. As India’s largest data center operator, we recognize the impact that DCLC and LIC cooling can have in significantly reducing the power consumption in future data centers. By successfully integrating these advanced processes, we have taken another step in building a connected future in a sustainable and responsible manner on a global scale.”
NTT DOCOMO, Nihon Dengyo Kosaku, and Fujitsu Ltd. demonstrated a 5G indoor base station incorporating a multisector antenna using the 28GHz band.
The demonstration, in which a conventional 5G base station control unit communicated with the new device via a 28GHz signal, confirmed that a single multisector antenna can receive radio waves in all directions using radio beam control. DOCOMO previously measured the directivity of a single element in a multisector antenna in 2022, but the DOCOMO believes that this was the world's first demonstration to use a multisector antenna in a 5G base station equipped for radio beam control.
A multisector antenna divides its surrounding 360-degree space into multiple areas (sectors) for transmitting and receiving radio waves simultaneously and independently in each sector. The antenna used in the demonstration contained 12 directional elements arranged in a radial pattern, each of which effectively transmitted and received radio waves in a specific direction.
Antel, the leading Mobile Operator in Uruguay, is testing the VMware Telco Cloud Platform to support a Proof of Concept (PoC).
VMware says its cloud native architecture will help Antel gain operational efficiencies and bring services and innovation to market faster. Using this integrated platform will allow Antel to deploy new network functions on the same Telco Cloud architecture from core to RAN to edge, enabling the scale and agility needed to deliver services on the 5G network.
This PoC between Antel and VMware was made possible with the help of AT Innovando Juntos, a local partner; the three companies are working together to help Antel build a world class 5G network to support the growing demands of the consumer and enterprise customers in Uruguay.
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LightRiver, an optical network integration solution provider, announced a partnership with Brazil-based Precision Solutions to transform how organizations in South America can manage and view their optical network hardware regardless of their current vendor(s).
LightRiver's netFLEX Transport Domain Orchestration and Control Software solution is a network automation platform designed to address the complexities of disparate optical transport networks, suppliers, and technologies.
"Precision Solutions is well known as a high-quality, cost-effective integrator in the South American market, and LightRiver's netFLEX is an essential addition to our product portfolio as it helps our customers to manage their networks effectively," comments Eduardo Ken, CEO of Precision Solutions. "The South American market, specifically Brazil, has several customer tiers. From big international players to small ISPs, all of them will benefit from the operational capacity and simplicity that only netFLEX can offer."
"We are honored to work with Precision Solutions and expand our netFLEX offering on a greater global scale," states Mike Jonas, President, Global Customer Operations for LightRiver. "Our award-winning netFLEX serves as an essential tool for companies worldwide, ensuring customers' success with optical networking and management."
The partnership between LightRiver and Precision Solutions will cover the resale and first-tier local support for netFLEX in the region. It also gives existing netFLEX customers the advantage of having the first technical support tier in its native language.
https://lightriver.com.
https://www.precisionsolutions.com.br
J:COM, Japan’s leading cable broadband and multi-channel video provider, is now using Qwilt’s Open Caching in its video delivery network.
The deployment brings streaming content closer to J:COM’s 5.62 million subscribing households than ever before, enabling a superior over-the-top (OTT) streaming experience for J:COM customers.
The solution is comprised of Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud, which provides Quality-as-a-Service content delivery, pushing content caching and delivery far out to the edge of the carrier network.
J:COM, which initially deployed Qwilt’s first-generation caching product in 2016, now has Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud solution deeply embedded within its network, moving content closer to J:COM subscribers than any other commercial or private CDN. Qwilt’s solution reduces the cost of building network capacity and substantially improves delivery quality to ensure J:COM can scale for less and serve media and applications at the highest quality.
J:COM has 28 Qwilt Open Caching nodes in Japan and content publishers are already delivering content on the Qwilt platform. For example, on April 9th, 2022, J:COM leveraged the platform to deliver live streams of Japan's highly anticipated middleweight unification boxing fight between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata.
Qwilt notes that each low-cost edge server can be utilized by other virtual network function (VNF) based services making it cost-effective enough to distribute throughout the service provider’s access network. The partnership allows J:COM to rapidly scale up and creates a foundation for future use cases, including site delivery and edge computing.
Jiro Inoue, Network Operation at J:COM, said: “As demand for live video streaming increases, so too does our need to create a scalable network that equips us for the future of content delivery. Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud solution significantly boosts our network capacity and accelerates our ability to deliver reliable, high-quality live and VoD streaming throughout Japan. We were delighted with the results of our use of Qwilt’s platform to stream the Golovkin vs. Murata fight. The outcome was a flawless streaming experience of the highest quality to our viewers across Japan.”
https://www.qwilt.com
Samsung Electronics has established a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on the product carbon footprint of its semiconductor business and achieved verification from DNV, one of the world's leading independent certification bodies.
LCA is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle of commercial products, processes, or services, by quantifying the amount of energy, materials and waste discharge. In detail, on its semiconductors’ carbon footprint, Samsung's LCA covers raw material extraction to chip manufacturing, assembling, and testing. Its results are in accordance with ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO 14067 to ensure credibility and transparency.
The carbon footprint is commonly used by Samsung and its customers to recognize the environmental impact across all phases of Samsung's semiconductor products, and can be used as a metric to track and reduce carbon emissions.
"Since 2019, we have been actively mobilizing efforts to measure and reduce the carbon emissions of our key memory and logic solutions," said Dooguen Song, Executive Vice President of the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Center at Samsung Electronics. "By leveraging LCA, we will be able to support our customers to achieve their carbon neutrality, as well as becoming more transparent on the environmental impact of the semiconductors we produce worldwide."
T-Mobile committed to achieve net-zero emissions across its entire carbon footprint by 2040.
“As we know sustainability is important to our customers and stakeholders, T-Mobile has made great progress in reducing our environmental footprint – and now we're taking even bigger steps to reduce our carbon emissions with a commitment to meeting SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard,” said Mike Sievert, T-Mobile CEO. “We are proud that we are doing our part to create a sustainable future for all – including becoming the first in U.S. wireless to set this bold target. And we hope companies like ours — and the partners and suppliers we work alongside — will join us in setting their own aggressive longer-term goals like these.”
T-Mobile has et a net-zero goal for all three emissions scopes that has been validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) using their Net-Zero Standard – the world’s first framework for company targets that aligns with the latest climate science. This goal covers emission scopes 1 and 2, inclusive of direct emissions from T-Mobile’s operations and facilities, as well as indirect emissions from purchased electricity.
T-Mobile said all remaining indirect scope 3 emissions (the company’s entire footprint!) — including those produced by suppliers, customer device usage, materials and fuel required to ship products, employee travel, and more—which represents roughly two thirds of the company’s carbon footprint.
“While T-Mobile's net-zero goal is a decades-long endeavor, we know how important it is to take definitive actions now to reduce our environmental impact for future generations,” said Janice Kapner, chief communications and corporate responsibility officer at T-Mobile. “We’re committed to measurable progress and holding ourselves accountable with strong governance practices, consistent and transparent reporting, and ongoing collaboration with leading sustainability experts.”
Citing stronger-than-expected O-RAN progress in North America, Dell'Oro Group is revising upwards it revenue forecast. Open RAN is now projected to account for 15 percent to 20 percent of global RAN by 2027.
“The message that we have communicated for some time now with the early adopters embracing the movement and the early majority operator still concerned about performance and cost parity with Open RAN relative to proprietary RAN has not changed,” said Stefan Pongratz, Vice President and Analyst at the Dell’Oro Group. “Even with the higher starting point, it is more salient than even to factor in the vastly different adoption curves across the greenfields, the leading brownfields in North America and Asia Pacific, and the rest of the world,” continued Pongratz.
Additional highlights from the January 2023 Open RAN Advanced Research Report:
Nokia reported Q4 2022 sales of EUR 7.449 billion, up 16% over the same period in 2021 (up 11% y-o-y in constant currency). Full year net sales grew 6% (12% reported).
Some highlights:
Pekka Lundmark, Nokia's CEO, states:
"We said at the start of 2022 that it would be a year of acceleration and we delivered what we promised. The Nokia team did a great job navigating geopolitical, economic and supply challenges, successfully executed our strategy and delivered a strong full year performance. Our constant currency full year net sales growth accelerated to 6% and we maintained a stable comparable operating margin of 12.5% which is a good result considering one-off benefits we had in 2021. "
"One of our strategic priorities is to broaden our customer base and grow in Enterprise and I’m delighted we achieved 21% net sales growth in constant currency for the full year with 49% growth in Q4. There were important webscale wins in 2022 with momentum also continuing to build in our private wireless business where we added 45 customers in Q4. "
"The highlight of the fourth quarter was our stellar Network Infrastructure performance, which grew net sales 14% in constant currency with significant operating margin expansion. Notably, we saw a strong acceleration in both our Optical Networks and IP Networks businesses with net sales growing 21% and 11% respectively in constant currency. Mobile Networks delivered 3% constant currency growth in Q4 with operating margin declining year-on-year, as expected due to changes in regional mix. On a full year basis, Mobile Networks’ 3% net sales growth and 90bps higher operating margin is encouraging after a successful reset the previous year. We continue to see solid demand trends in Network Infrastructure and Mobile Networks as we look ahead into 2023. "
"In Cloud and Network Services, we saw good Q4 net sales growth of 5% in constant currency and continued improvement in gross margin, which increased 200bps year-on-year. Increased investments into private wireless and Software-as-a-Service meant operating margin was largely stable. This is evidence that the ongoing optimization of our portfolio is bearing fruit and positioning us for continued profitable growth in the future."
Vantage Data Centers highlighed rapid growth of its portfolio of data centers in 2022 and plans for new facilities.
North American Expansion: Vantage opened seven new data centers across its inaugural region of North America while continuing its aggressive expansion to keep pace with customer requirements.
Canada: With a CAD$900M investment in Canadian operations, Vantage began development of a third Montreal campus while expanding existing campuses in Montreal and Quebec City. Upon completion, Vantage’s four Canadian campuses will total 143MW.
Phoenix: Vantage broke ground on phase two of its growing Phoenix campus. Once fully developed, the mega campus will offer hyperscalers and large cloud providers 160MW of IT capacity across three facilities.
New Facilities: Vantage opened new data centers in many of its North American markets, including Virginia, Arizona, Washington, California, Montreal and Quebec City.
EMEA Expansion: Vantage opened its first campuses in South Africa and Poland while launching new investments in solar and wind power.
South Africa: Vantage opened its first African data center campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, offering 16MW of IT capacity and announced the development of a second Johannesburg campus that will consist of 20MW of IT capacity.
Poland: The company opened its first data center campus in Poland. Once fully developed, the two-data center development will offer 48MW of IT capacity.
Germany: Vantage announced four new data center openings in Frankfurt and Berlin along with a new business office in Raunheim.
APAC Expansion: Since entering the region just over one year ago, Vantage has made significant strides to meet rising demand for digital infrastructure in APAC.
Cyberjaya: Vantage announced the delivery of a second data center (KUL12) on its Cyberjaya campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company concurrently announced plans to continue expanding the campus with a third facility (KUL13), which will open its doors in the first half of 2023.
Hong Kong: In November, Vantage announced the opening of a new Hong Kong office, serving as the regional hub to house engineering, construction, sales, finance and accounting, and leadership functions to support the company’s business across APAC.
The expansion is supported by more than USD$3 billion of debt and equity financing raised throughout the year, including USD$368 million in green loans to advance sustainable developments in Quebec City, Canada, and Northern Virginia.
“Vantage experienced explosive growth over the past year as we continued to remain hyper focused on meeting customer demand for sustainable digital infrastructure around the world,” said Sureel Choksi, president and CEO of Vantage Data Centers. “We appreciate the trust that our customers placed in us, as well as the confidence that our investors continue to have in our ability to execute.”
“The team at Vantage has built a world-class portfolio of hyperscale data centers, supporting the continued growth of the largest global technology companies as they scale their businesses to meet global market demand,” said Marc Ganzi, president and CEO of DigitalBridge. “Vantage is an industry innovator, and with the support of our team at DigitalBridge, will continue to grow and deliver reliability, efficiency and sustainability for the benefit of their hyperscale customers.”
What happened at the first annual Chiplet Summit? Interest in chipsets is running high not only from leading semiconductor vendors and the Open Compute Project (OCP), but also from potential ecosystem partners, including semiconductor fab equipment vendors, silicon start-ups, system companies, hyperscalers and even the investment community.
Chuck Sobey, Conference Chair, provides an overview at the end of a busy conference week.
What will it take to create a vibrant ecosystem where innovative chipset designs can easily be integrated with other semiconductors and aligned to specific processing workload?
Bapi Vinnakota, ODSA Project Lead, Open Compute Project, discusses the emerging chipset economy, including progress in defining the interface.
At the first, annual Chiplet Summit in San Jose, California, d-Matrix demonstrated a die-to-die chipset interface based on the emerging Bunch of Wires (BoW) work undertaken by the Open Compute Project (OCP). In this video, Wen-Sin Liew, Analog and Mixed Signal Design Engineer, shares an overview of the demo.
Driven by increases in broadband, wireless, business services and advertising revenue, Comcast reported revenue for its cable communications business of $16.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, up 1.4% compared to a year earlier. Gains were partially offset by decreases in video, voice and other revenue.
Highlights:
"I am proud of how our team executed throughout 2022," said Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation. "We achieved the highest levels of Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS in our history and returned a record $17.7 billion of capital to shareholders.
The launch was the heaviest payload yet carried by a Falcon 9 -- 17,400 kg.
The mission was SpaceX's 205th overall launch.
The Starlink service is currently available in 44 countries.
Intel reported Q4 revenue of $14.0 billion, down 32 percent year-over-year (YoY) and down 28 percent YoY on a non-GAAP basis. Full-year revenue was $63.1 billion, down 20 percent YoY and down 16 percent YoY on a non-GAAP basis. Q4 earnings (loss) per share (EPS) was $(0.16); non-GAAP EPS was $0.10. Full-year EPS was $1.94; non-GAAP EPS was $1.84.
Quarterly revenue for the Client Computing Group (CCG) was down 36% compared to last year, while sales for Data Center and AI (DCAI) was down 33%. The Network and Edge (NEX) group was down only 1%, while Mobileye grew 59% compared to a year earlier. The Intel Foundry Services business recorded $319 million in sales for the quarter, up 30% compared to a year earlier.
Looking ahead to the current Q1 2023, Intel is forecasting a deeper loss of $(.80) per share for the quarter.
As part of cost-cutting measures, Intel will discontinue development of its network switching product line. The Tofino switching silicon products were part of the acquisition of Barefoot Networks.
Prepared comments from CEO Pat Gelsinger for the Q4 investor call:
"We enter 2023 with a view that much of the macro uncertainty of the last year is likely to persist, especially in the first half of the year. As such we are laser-focused on executing to our $3 billion in CY23 cost savings that we committed to on our Q3 earnings call. We are making tough decisions to right-size the organization, and we further sharpened our business focus within our BUs (business units) by rationalizing product roadmaps and investments. NEX continues to do well and is a core part of our strategic transformation, but we will end future investment on our network switching product line, while still fully supporting existing products and customers. Since my return, we have exited seven businesses, providing in excess of $1.5 billion in savings. We are also well underway to integrating AXG (Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics) into CCG (Client Computing Group) and DCAI (Data Center and AI Group), respectively, to drive a more effective go-to-market capability, accelerating the scale of these businesses while further reducing costs."
Intel also posted notices regarding a discontinuation of its Pathfinder for RISC-V tool, which enables the exploration of RISC-V IP utilizing FPGA platforms. The software supported development on and testing of a wide range of opensource and commercial RISC-V processors in an FPGA environment.
AT&T is making significant progress with its open, disaggregated program. In a blog post, Mike Satterlee, vice president, Network Core Infrastructure Services, cites the following milestones:
The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and JEDEC Solid State Technology Association agreed to establish a framework for the transfer of technology captured in an OCP-approved specification to JEDEC for inclusion in one of its standards. This alliance brings together members from both the OCP and JEDEC communities to share efforts in developing and maintaining global standards needed to advance the electronics industry.
Under this new alliance, the current effort will be to provide a mechanism to standardize Chiplet part descriptions leveraging OCP Chiplet Data Extensible Markup Language (CDXML) specification to become part of JEDEC JEP30: Part Model Guidelines for use with today’s EDA tools. With this updated JEDEC standard, expected to be published in 2023, Chiplet builders will be able to provide electronically a standardized Chiplet part description to their customers paving the way for automating System in Package (SiP) design and build using Chiplets. The description will include information needed by SiP builders such as Chiplet thermal properties, physical and mechanical requirements, behavior specifications, power and signal integrity properties, testing the Chiplet in package, and security parameters.
"One of the key efforts at the OCP is centered around the need for specialized computation for AI and ML workloads driving the need for specialized silicon. To deliver on the need for specialized silicon while enabling a rapid pace of innovation, we believe a new open Chiplet economy with a low barrier to entry is needed and will require collaboration and standardizations on multiple dimensions, ensuring that companies are able to interact in an open efficient and scalable manner. The OCP has been investing in being a catalyst for an open Chiplet economy for several years through its Open Domain Specific Architecture (ODSA) Project and are pleased to establish this alliance with JEDEC to allow work done in ODSA to become part of a global international standard that advances the industry," said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., VP Market Intelligence & innovation at the Open Compute Project Foundation.
