Lumen lands $223 million contract with DISA

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded a $223 million contract to Lumen Technologies to provide secure, mission-critical communications services to the U.S. Department of Defense. It was awarded to Lumen under the General Services Administration's 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program.

Lumen will supply DISA with modern hybrid-cloud voice and audio-conferencing services that support the Department of Defense (DoD)'s mission both inside and outside the U.S.

"The U.S. Department of Defense has a far-reaching mission to provide military forces to deter war and ensure our nation's security. DoD selected Lumen to deliver voice communications services that will help it carry out its important mission using today's technologies," said Zain Ahmed, senior vice president, Lumen public sector. "DoD is modernizing its network and leveraging cloud-based technologies like the new voice system enabled by Lumen that securely connects our troops with modern communications tools wherever they are."

The new voice services will support DoD's transition to a next generation 911 (NG911) system at military bases that can better pinpoint and route first responders to a caller's location. 

https://www.lumen.com/public-sector.html

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AWS Q4 2022 revenues rise 20% yoy to $21.4 billion

In its Q4 financial report, Amazon reported that AWS segment sales increased 20% year-over-year to $21.4 billion. However, operating income dipped to $5.205 billion for the quarter, down 2% yoy.

Some additional highlights:

• Nasdaq completed the migration of its MRX core trading system to the cloud,
• Stability AI selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to build and train artificial intelligence (AI) models
• Descartes Labs is going all-in on AWS to give customers timely, actionable insights to tackle challenges like enhancing food security and mitigating climate change.
• Brookfield Asset Management selected AWS as a preferred cloud provide
• Duke Energy is working with AWS on smart grid solutions to improve reliability and resiliency in preparation for rapid electric vehicle adoption.
• Launched AWS Regions in Spain and Switzerland as well as a second Region in India to continue expanding AWS’s infrastructure footprint, 
•  As of the end of 2022, AWS has 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic Regions globally, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx

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Qualcomm cites weaker handset demand and high inventories

Citing weaker handset demand and inventory drawdown, Qualcomm reported revenue of $9.463 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal 2023, down 12% compared to a year earlier. Net income for the quarter dipped to $2.235 billion, down 34% year-over-year.

“In a challenging environment, we delivered results consistent with guidance, including year-over-year growth in QCT Automotive and IoT,” said Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated. “The long-term trends driving demand for our differentiated technologies and solutions that enable digital transformation are intact. We are confident in our ability to navigate the near term and remain focused on executing our diversification strategy."

Some highlights

• Combined auto and IoT revenues represent 27% of total QCT revenues reflecting continued progress on revenue diversification. 
• The company expects elevated channel inventory levels to persist at least to the first half of calendar 2023, and multiple end industries within IoT are also experiencing weaker than expected demand and elevated inventory levels.
• Qualcomm is implementing further spending reductions and streamlining operations

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Ericsson, Intel and Microsoft show network slicing on Windows

Ericsson, Intel and Microsoft demonstrated end-to-end 5G standalone network slicing capabilities on a Windows laptop. 

The interoperability development testing (IoDT) carried out recently at the Ericsson Lab in Sweden showed the use of multiple network slices on cellular-connected laptop devices for consumer and enterprise use cases such as mobile gaming and collaboration applications.

The network slicing trial utilized User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP), the capability that enables devices to automatically select between different slices according to which application they are using. It also used Ericsson’s Dynamic Network Slicing Selection, Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, and Ericsson’s RAN Slicing capabilities to secure end-user service differentiation. 

The companies see opportunities for commercial 5G network slicing with specific Service Level Agreement per slice for Windows applications and use cases, such as real-time enterprise applications like Microsoft Teams and Office365, game/media streaming, and emerging AI and augmented reality/extended reality (AR/XR) applications.

Sibel Tombaz, Head of Product Line 5G RAN at Ericsson, says: “Expanding the range of devices for network slicing to include laptops will allow new business segments to create a variety of use cases for consumer and enterprises. We have shown, together with Intel and Microsoft, how ecosystem collaboration can open new possibilities. We will continue to strengthen Ericsson’s network slicing capabilities and work with industry partners to enable more applications on several devices, spreading the benefits of 5G in the consumer and enterprise segments.”

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ArcelorMittal deploys private 4G/5G with Orange Business and Ericsson

ArcelorMittal France announced the operational launch of 5G Steel, the largest 4G/5G network in the industrial environment, with Orange Business Services and Ericsson. 

The initiative, supported by the French government as part of the France Relance economy revival plan, is now enabling the first industrial use cases to be implemented at the ArcelorMittal site in Dunkerque.

5G Steel in figures

• 9 radio sites with 4X4 MiMo antennas to cover the Dunkerque and Mardyck sites
• 1 core with dynamic geographic redundancy to manage up to 50,000 users
• 1 monitoring tool to manage and operate the 5G Steel network
• 19 Cradlepoint routers, a subsidiary of Ericsson
• 80% of the area is above speed targets

Network construction

• Nov 23, 2021: Project launch
• Dec 8, 2021: Defining the positioning of the antennas
• Apr 22, 2022: Installation of the core and the 1st antenna
• Aug 5, 2022: Installation complete
• Sep 1, 2022: Authorization to use frequencies
• Oct 13, 2022: The network at the Dunkerque site is switched on

Franck Bouétard, CEO of Ericsson France, commented: “The private network will allow ArcelorMittal to accelerate the digitalization of the various critical industrial processes on the site and to extend it to the Port of Dunkerque. Connectivity everywhere, real-time monitoring, and security requirements are at the heart of the solutions implemented. We are proud to support ArcelorMittal to pave the way for industrial 5G in Europe and France.”

Valérie Cussac, Executive Vice President Smart Mobility Services, at Orange Business Services, said: “We are delighted to support ArcelorMittal with our dual expertise as an integrator operator. 5G Steel allows maximum use of their critical data in complete security. By combining the performance and robustness of 5G with our ecosystem of partners and start-ups, we provide innovation and digital technology to our innovative industrial customers, like ArcelorMittal, to create a positive impact.”

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SAP deepens integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

SAP will increase its use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

Under the expanded collaboration between the firms, SAP is steadily migrating part of its internal IT landscape and the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services portfolio onto the standard foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. SAP says this shift will help meet its evolving business and IT needs. 

As part of its migration road map, SAP is boosting support for the RISE with SAP solution using Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred operating system for net new business for RISE with SAP solution deployments. 

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/sap-and-red-hat-deepen-partnership-power-sap-software-workloads-red-hat-enterprise-linux

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Viavi revenues dip 9.6% to $284.5 million

For its second quarter of fiscal 2023 VIAVI Solutions reported net revenue of $284.5 million. GAAP net income was $8.4 million, or $0.04 per share. Non-GAAP net income was $31.5 million, or $0.14 per share.

Second quarter of fiscal 2022 net revenue was $314.8 million. GAAP net income was $34.6 million, or $0.14 per share. Non-GAAP net income was $59.3 million, or $0.24 per share.

"Partial recovery in the service provider spend drove fiscal second quarter revenue, operating profit and EPS above the high end of our guidance," said Oleg Khaykin, VIAVI's President and Chief Executive Officer. "While the overall service provider spend environment remained constrained, we saw initial signs of stabilization and recovery in our NSE business segment, coming in above the high end of our guidance for both revenue and non-GAAP operating margin. The OSP business segment, on the other hand, grew year over year and came in-line with our expectations." 

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2023 5G Challenge for O-RAN solutions offers $6M in prizes

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD), is kicking off a 2023 5G Challenge that aims to accelerate the adoption of 5G open interfaces, interoperable subsystems, secure networks and multi-vendor solutions by advancing towards true plug-and-play 5G interoperability.

The 5G Challenge offers over $6 million in prize money. 

Contestants will create 5G equipment prototypes and then test to see if their subsystems can connect to other contestant’s equipment. Currently, this type of plug and play operation does not exist in the marketplace. 

Applications opened today and must be submitted via email to 5gchallenge@ntia.gov by 7:00 p.m. ET on March 1, 2023. 

The largest prize of $3,000,000 will go to the top performing contestants that work together to demonstrate network mobility. 

A webinar on the competition will be held February 9.

“A competitive wireless ecosystem is vital for our domestic and economic security. The research conducted from this competition will benefit everything from our cellphones to the secure radio networks needed for our national defense,” said Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. “To ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in wireless innovation, we are looking for a diverse set of companies and researchers from across the 5G industry to come together and participate to come together and participate in this challenge competition.” 

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2023/ntia-and-dod-launch-competition-accelerate-adoption-openran

https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=2023-5g-challenge

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Meta trims 2023 data center construction plans

Meta reported Q4 and full year 2022 revenue of $32.17 billion and $116.61 billion, a decrease of 4% and 1% year-over-year for the fourth quarter and full year 2022, respectively. Q4 net income was $4.652 billion, down 55% compared to a year earlier.

Capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, were $9.2 billion, driven by investments in servers, data centers, and network infrastructure.

For 2023, Meta expects capital expenditures to be in the range of $30-33 billion, lowered from a prior estimate of $34-37 billion. The reduced outlook reflects updated plans for lower data center construction spend in 2023 as we shift to a new data center architecture that is more cost efficient and can support both AI and non-AI workloads. Substantially all of the capital expenditures continue to support all of the company's apps.

In the quarterly investor conference call, Mark Zuckerberg stated "Before getting into our product priorities, I want to discuss my management theme for 2023, which is the "year of efficiency". We closed last year with some difficult layoffs and restructuring some teams. When we did this, I said clearly that this was the beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end. Since then, we've taken some additional steps like working with our infrastructure team on how to deliver our roadmap while spending less on capex."

Some additional metrics:

• Family daily active people (DAP) – DAP was 2.96 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 5% year-over-year.
• Family monthly active people (MAP) – MAP was 3.74 billion as of December 31, 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year.
• Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 2.00 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year.
• Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) – MAUs were 2.96 billion as of December 31, 2022, an increase of 2% year-over-year.

https://investor.fb.com/home/default.aspx

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BT migrates mainframe apps to the cloud with Kyndryl

BT Group’s Digital Unit is working with Kyndryl to migrate mainframe applications which service its legacy copper business and consumer broadband products to the cloud. 

The ten-year partnership, which draws on Kyndryl’s hyperscaler capabilities and partner ecosystem, will allow BT Group to reduce mainframe operating costs and energy consumption by 70%, leading to savings worth more than £17m a year by 2026.

“We like thinking out of the box to solve complex problems – like how to move off mainframes given the prohibitive increase in legacy infrastructure cost – without rewriting decades-old applications,” explains Harmeen Mehta, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at BT Group. “With that mindset, working with Kyndryl, we figured out how to turn legacy mainframes into modern digital apps and run them at a fraction of the cost.” 

Kyndryl, which currently runs BT Group’s mainframe estate, extends its partnership with BT to deliver the transformation project by 2026, accelerating the drive to reduce cost and open up data insights within these key applications. As part of the project, some applications are being “retired” (contributing to the Group’s target to get to fewer than 500 strategic systems by 2027, simplifying its technology estate), “refactored” (redeveloped into BT Group’s existing strategic systems and architecture) or rehosted (repackaged to operate in a cloud environment).

“It’s exciting to be partnering with BT Group on such an ambitious and critical programme. Migrating from mainframes to cloud extends the usefulness and lifespan of these applications in a modern, micro-services led, cloud-centric way and helps unlock intelligent data insights. We’re excited to draw on our deep knowledge, ecosystem of partners and community of industry leading experts to help deliver this transformation,” comments Petra Goude, Global Practice Leader, Core Enterprise & zCloud, Kyndryl.

https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about-us/news/2023/01/bt-group-hires-kyndryl-mainframe-cloud

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023    

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EE activates 5G on the London Underground,

EE is activating 5G on the London Underground, with the network’s high-speed coverage live at three stations – Archway and Tufnell Park on the Northern line, as well as Notting Hill Gate on the Central line.

In addition to continuous 5G coverage from ticket hall to platform at all three stations, 5G is also live within the tunnel segment at Notting Hill Gate and the same will be true for Archway and Tufnell Park shortly.  

EE notes that he arrival of 5G comes just weeks after 4G landed on the Central and Northern lines for the first time.

Coverage is provided in partnership with BAI Communications.

https://newsroom.ee.co.uk/ee-delivers-5g-connectivity-to-the-london-underground-for-the-first-time/

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Mavenir powers OpenBeam radios with AMD RFSoC devices

Mavenir has incorporated the AMD Zynq Ultrascale+ RFSoC devices into its OpenBeam Radio Portfolio. The radio solutions can be used for a wide range of use cases, including basic coverage across all frequency bands, outdoor small cells, for public and private networks providing business and consumer services in both urban and rural environments.

Mavenir also confirmed that its Converged Packet Core has been validated on AMD EPYC CPUs. This means Mavenir’s cloud-native, fully containerized, virtualized Converged Packet Core (4G & 5G) solution can now be deployed on AMD EPYC server CPUs to provide CSPs with more options to implement virtual network functions in cloud data centers.

The elements validated include AMF, SMF, UPF, UDSF, NRF, NSSF, AUSF, UDM, and UDR network functions. Additionally, PCF, NEF, BSF, MME, SecGw, PCRF, MME and SGSN network functions will be validated in the coming months.

“Mavenir’s commitment to enabling networks built on software that runs on any cloud revolves around giving CSPs the ability to use the best components that fit their specific needs, in the cell-site and in the data center,” said Bejoy Pankajakshan, EVP, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Mavenir. “Mavenir and AMD are working together to give CSPs multiple options and help them optimize power consumption, network efficiency and total cost of ownership in the radio access as well as the core network.”

“Cloud-native telecom networks empower CSPs with systems that offer flexibility, lower operational cost, ease of system management, and a broader ecosystem for value add, innovation, and upgrade capabilities as network requirements grow,” said Salil Raje, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Communications Group, AMD. “We are extremely proud of our close collaboration with Mavenir to help deliver exceptional TCO and predictable scalability along with high performance and power efficient solutions to telecommunications operators leveraging AMD data center products.”

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Pilot Photonics intros widely tunable laser

Pilot Photonics introduced a widely tunable laser module offering nanosecond switching and narrow linewidth.

Pilot Photonics said its laser is based on a monolithic InP chip fabricated on an active-passive platform. Electro-optic tuning with reverse-voltage bias of tuning sections allows mA-order dark currents and facilitates nanosecond switching speeds with low power dissipation. It offers more than 30nm of wavelength tuning range in either the C-band or the O-band, and linewidth of 150kHz. Currently available in 14-pin butterfly package or integrated into an OEM or laboratory instrument form-factor module, the
company is also developing a nano-iTLA module for high volume applications.

"We have been working with our partner SMART Photonics on a couple of innovative tunable laser designs made possible with their PIC platform" said Dr. Frank Smyth, founder and CTO at Pilot Photonics. "These devices target specific challenges that our customers are facing, and we are delighted to help solve them".

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MaxLinear posts Q4 revenue of $290.6 million, up 17% year-over-year

MaxLinear reported Q4 revenue of $290.6 million, up 2% sequentially and up 17% year-over-year. GAAP gross margin was 56.2%, compared to 58.6% in the prior quarter, and 57.2% in the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $1.07, compared to diluted earnings per share of $1.05 in the prior quarter, and diluted earnings per share of $0.86 in the year-ago quarter.

“In the fourth quarter, we continued our strong execution with revenue up 2% sequentially and up 17% year-over-year, bringing fiscal 2022 revenues to over $1 billion. In particular, in Q4, our Wi-Fi business delivered substantial sequential and year-over-year growth. Our connectivity category almost doubled in Q4 year-over-year, driven by our differentiated Wi-Fi6 feature set. Our results included strong cash flows from operations of approximately $69 million in Q4 and approximately $389 million for the full year. Over the last two years, we have delivered transformative growth and strong financials while balancing disciplined expense management along with investments in technology innovation. Now, as we enter 2023, we have conviction in our strong long-term growth prospects, owing to our developing technology leadership, accelerating design-win momentum, and expanding target markets, including Wi-Fi, fiber access, wireless and optical infrastructure. We are also looking forward to our pending acquisition of Silicon Motion, and are excited for the future growth opportunities of our comprehensive product portfolio,” commented Kishore Seendripu, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO.

MaxLinear to acquire Silicon Motion for NAND flash controllers

Thursday, May 05, 2022  MaxLinear, Mergers And Acquisitions, Silicon  

MaxLinear agreed to acquire Silicon Motion in a cash and stock transaction that values the combined company at $8 billion in enterprise value.Silicon Motion, which was founded in 1997 in Taipei, Taiwan, specializes in NAND flash controller integrated circuits for solid-state storage devices. The company claims that more NAND flash components, including current and up-coming generations of 3D flash produced by Intel, Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix,...

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Dell'Oro: Sustained broadband spending through 2027

Sales of PON equipment for fiber-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fiber and DOCSIS 4.0 networks, while expanding the types of services they deliver to residential subscribers, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group.

"Service providers around the world continue to transition their broadband networks to fiber and retire their existing copper and DSL networks," said Jeff Heynen, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. "With markets expected to become more competitive, broadband providers will have to continue spending in order to differentiate their services not only by increasing advertised speeds, but also improving latency and expanding managed Wi-Fi services," added Heynen.

Additional highlights from the Broadband Access & Home Networking 5-Year January 2023 Forecast Report:

• PON equipment revenue is expected to grow from $11.0 B in 2022 to $13.2 B in 2027, driven largely by XGS-PON deployments in North America, EMEA, and CALA.
• Revenue for Cable Distributed Access Equipment (Virtual CCAP, Remote PHY Devices, Remote MACPHY Devices, and Remote OLTs) is expected to reach $1.5 B by 2027, as operators ramp their DOCSIS 4.0 and fiber deployments.
• Revenue for Fixed Wireless CPE is expected to reach $2.2 B by 2027, led by shipments of 5G sub-6GHz and 5G Millimeter Wave units.

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Colt connects to new Barcelona Cable Landing Station

Colt Technology Services (Colt) is the first carrier to connect to AFT-IX's new Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS). 

AFR-IX Telecom is already using Colt’s network in the African market to provide an internet service to African operators and customers to connect them to European data centers via Colt’s routes.

Colt operates in more than 220 cities in over 30 countries and connects more than 1,000 data centres and over 31,000 connected buildings in the largest business centres in Europe, Asia and North America. Colt’s network in Spain and Portugal is already serving Lisbon, Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona, and has 13 connection points to data centers in Barcelona.

Colt will be able to offer, from Barcelona CLS, services like  data centre interconnection (Data Centre Interconnect), inter-network traffic exchange (IP Transit) or dark fibre (non-active fibre optic circuits that enable the capacity of customers to be expanded in times of need).

Colt will enable Barcelona CLS to connect to Europe’s major digital hubs (Paris, London, Frankfurt) and provide an express terrestrial route to other key regional cable landing stations such as Lisbon, Bilbao and Marseilles, installing new submarine cables and capacity in the US, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Barcelona Cable Landing Station offers alternative to Marseille

Monday, January 18, 2021  Catalonia, Spain, Subsea  

A new Barcelona Cable Landing Station is expected to come into operation the first quarter of 2022 with the aim of being the digital port of reference in the Mediterranean. The facility, which is an initiative of AFR-IX Telecom, is the first international submarine cable landing station in Catalonia. Currently, Marseille is the primary landing point for most submarine fibre-optic cables of the Mediterranean. Organizers of the Barcelona Cable...

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Juniper reports strong Q4 momentum, sales up 11% yoy

Juniper Networks reported Q4 2022 revenue of $1,448.8 million, an increase of 11% year-over-year, and an increase of 2% sequentially. GAAP operating margin was 14.0%, an increase from 11.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021, and an increase from 10.6% in the third quarter of 2022.

“We experienced strong business momentum during the December quarter, including a second consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, a record performance by our enterprise business, and our second-highest cloud revenue quarter,” said Juniper’s CEO, Rami Rahim. “Our experience-first networking strategy, focused on leveraging AI and cloud-delivered automation to improve customer operations and the end-user experience, continues to resonate across the markets we serve. We believe our differentiated solutions, along with our go-to-market investments and strong backlog, should position us to deliver another year of solid revenue growth in 2023.”

“In addition to record revenue results, we achieved strong profitability during the December quarter, as non-GAAP gross and operating margin both exceeded the mid-point of our forecast and enabled us to beat the mid-point of our non-GAAP EPS outlook,” said Juniper’s CFO, Ken Miller. “We remain focused on delivering profitable growth and are confident in our ability to expand our non-GAAP operating margin by at least 100 basis points in 2023.”

On an investor conference call, Juniper executives noted a "normalization of buying patterns" amongst Cloud and Service Provider customers, following a a year in which many of these accounts placed multiple quarters of demand in advance of knowing requirements to account for extended lead times.

During the fourth quarter, total product orders declined more than 20% year-over-year. Adjusted orders declined single digits year-over-year, versus difficult comparison but grew sequentially. Juniper ended the year with backlog of more than $2.0 billion, which is down sequentially, but up on a year-over-year basis.

• Enterprise had record revenue and was the largest vertical in the fourth quarter, increasing 32% year-over-year and 16% sequentially, 14% year-over-year and increased 1% sequentially. 
• Service Provider declined 8% year-over-year and 10% seq revenue grew 30% year-over-year and 19% sequent grew 50% year-over-year and 13% sequentially. 
• Automated WAN was down 4% year-over-year and 10% sequentially.
• Total Software and Related Services revenue was $305 million, an increase of 26% year-over-year.
• Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR3) grew 43% year-over-year. Juniper exited the year with $294 million in ARR.
• Total Security revenue was $169 million, up 5% year-over-year and up 21% sequentially.
• In reviewing  top 10 customers for the quarter, six were Cloud, three were Service Provider, and one was Enterprise. Our top 10 customers accounted for 34% of our total revenue as compared to 33% in Q4'21.

https://investor.juniper.net/investor-relations/events/default.aspx

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Red Hat and Oracle announced a multi-stage alliance to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a supported operating system. 

With this strategic collaboration, certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and customers can also migrate existing workloads already running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI with greater confidence. OCI flexible virtual machines can scale in increments as small as a single CPU to optimize price-performance and minimize wasted resources. Customers can also contact both Red Hat and Oracle support to help resolve potential issues, with an expanded transparent, joint support agreement.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux forms the backbone of Red Hat’s hybrid cloud technology portfolio, which includes Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and additional technologies to support the modern cloud-native stack. With this collaboration, joint customers of Red Hat and Oracle can now create a foundation for future-forward computing deployments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux while still retaining the value of existing IT investments.

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Ciena upgrades Honotua subsea cable in French Polynesia

French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300 Gbps. The last stage of operations was successfully carried out in October 2022 thanks to the engagement and expertise of the ONATi, Intelia and Ciena teams.

The Honotua international cable was upgraded using Ciena’s GeoMesh Solution powered by the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and WaveLogic Ai technology providing 300 Gbps of capacity on a cable system supporting an upgrade path to 5 Tbps of total capacity. The Honotua international cable is a 4,500km submarine communication system that interconnects several islands of French Polynesia from Tahiti to Hawaii. The Honotua international cable system was deployed in 2009, and it is owned and operated by the OPT French Polynesia Group to supply connectivity to more than 220,000 mobile subscribers, 45,000 fixed internet customers and 16,000 audio-visual multimedia users.

Intelia served as the local integrator. 

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Orange Belgium and Telenet sign wholesale agreements

Orange Belgium, which serves over three million customers, and Telenet have signed two commercial fixed wholesale agreements, which entry into force is subject to the completion of the transaction related to the acquisition of 75% minus one share of VOO by Orange Belgium. 

The agreements will provide access to each other’s fixed networks for a 15-year period and cover both current Hybrid Fiber Coaxial and future Fiber to the Home technologies in both network areas. Orange Belgium believes these agreements will foster investment, benefit the customer and competition in the Belgian telecom market. Orange Belgium firstly secures an access to Telenet’s Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network and to its future Fiber to the Home network for 15 years, a key enabler to strengthen its nationwide convergent strategy. Secondly, Orange Belgium will provide Telenet wholesale access to VOO and Brutélé’s Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network and to its future Fiber to the Home network in the regions of Wallonia and Brussels-Capital. It will also secure Telenet as a wholesale customer, increasing network penetration and return on modernization investments.

Xavier Pichon, CEO of Orange Belgium, commented: "It is a major step forward in the deployment of our leading nationwide multi-gigabit strategy. With the acquisition of VOO, we have an ambitious investment plan to upgrade the network and to provide multi-gigabit connectivity to our customers. The agreement on the Telenet network, will complement our ability to provide a Hybrid Fiber Coaxial and Fiber to the Home multi-gigabit connectivity value proposition to our customers wherever they live. We also welcome Telenet as a wholesale customer on our future VOO network. These agreements will foster competition and network investments nationwide”.

https://newsroom.orange.com/orange-belgium-and-telenet-sign-two-commercial-wholesale-agreements-providing-access-to-each-others-hybrid-fiber-coaxial-and-fiber-to-the-home-networks/?lang=en

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