Clouds and Carriers

Lumen Technologies has expanded its  Network-as-a Service (NaaS)   from 23 data centers to 136 across North America.  Through data center partners, Lumen has extended its NaaS reach to Digital...

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, a new consumption model providing access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity for short...

Amazon plans to launch the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe. The new service will use data centers within the EU that are separate and independent...

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) activated 400G circuits to four of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) national laboratories and user facilities: Argonne National Laboratory, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center,...

Cisco is working with NVIDIA to deliver AI-powered meetings for hybrid workers.  Cisco is launching Room Kit EQX and expanding its Cinematic Meetings capabilities — both powered by NVIDIA’s AI...

Orange Group reported revenues for the third quarter of 2023 were 10,999 million euros, an increase of 1.8%, or 194 million euros, year on year (compared with +2.6% in 2Q...

Alphabet reported quarterly revenue of $77 billion, up 11% over the same period last year. Google Cloud accounted for $8.411 billion, compared to $6.868 billion a year ago. Sundar Pichai,...

BT unveiled its new Global Fabric network for connecting enterprise customers with multiple clouds. BT says Global Fabric represents a generational shift in technology, based on a network-as-a-service (NaaS) technical and commercial model. ...

Orange and Vodafone have completed 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial network sites in a rural area near Bucharest, Romania, based on Open RAN technology.  This technological milestone...

A new service from the European Space Agency (ESA) went live last month allowing anyone to access its Earth observation data. The new Copernicus Data Space service is supported by...

NTT DATA and IP Infusion are collaborating for go-to-market open networking solutions to bring enhanced disaggregation, scalability, and choices to network operators. Specifically, NTT DATA will offer IP Infusion Cell Site Routers, Routed Optical Networking, Aggregation...

Arelion  announced a new partnership with eStruxture, the largest Canadian cloud and carrier-neutral data center provider, deploying a fully diverse Point-of-Presence (PoP) at eStruxture’s VAN-2 site in the Harbour Centre...

MEF published a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Industry Blueprint designed to help service providers develop, market, and deliver the next generation of NaaS offerings. The blueprint leverages MEF’s existing body of work,...