AWS to Open New Region in Indonesia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will open an infrastructure region in Indonesia by the end of 2021 / early 2022, its ninth in Asia Pacific including Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore,...
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OPNFV Verification Program adds VNF testing
LF Networking (LFN) is expanding its OPNFV Verification Program (OVP) to include Virtual Network Function (VNF) compliance testing. The expanded OVP, created in conjunction with the ONAP testing community, now...
NBASE-T Alliance and Ethernet Alliance to merge
The NBASE-T Alliance and the Ethernet Alliance will consolidate their activities under the Ethernet Alliance. The NBASE-T Alliance is focused on enabling the development and deployment of products that support...
UNH-IOL to serve as first OVP Verified 3rd Party Laboratory
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is the first lab to complete and receive the verification badge as the first OVP Verified Lab within the OPNFV Verification Programs....
Aqua raises $62M for cloud-native security
Aqua Security, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, announced $62 million in Series C funding for its cloud-native security solutions. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides visibility and security...
SK Telecom’s 5G network is live with 34,000 base stations deployed
SK Telecom has activated a total of 34,000 5G base stations across Korea. In a press conference at its headquarters in Seoul, SK Telecom marked "the beginning of the age...
Intel Xeon processors pack up to 56 cores, add capabilities
The 2nd-Gen Intel Xeon Scalable platform will deliver an evolutionary leap in agility and scalability. At Intel’s “Data-Centric Innovation Day” in San Francisco, the company outlined many new Xeon benchmarks...
Intel’s 10nm Agilex FPGA targets embedded, network and data centers
Intel introduced its new Intel an"Agilex" field programmable gate array (FPGA) family targetted at embedded, network and data center markets. The Intel Agilex family combines FPGA fabric built on Intel’s...
West deploys Fujitsu’s 1FINITY and Virtuora for DCI
West Corporation, a global provider of communication and network infrastructure services headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, has deployed Fujitsu Network Communications' 1FINITY and Virtuora platforms in a live 200G data center...
O-RAN Open Source Community gets underway
The O-RAN Alliance and the Linux Foundation have established the O-RAN Software Community (O-RAN SC) to provide open software aligned with the O-RAN Alliance’s open architecture. As a new open...
George Davis leaves Qualcomm to join Intel as CFO
Intel announced the appointment of George S. Davis as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Davis, 61, joins Intel from Qualcomm Inc., where he served as executive vice...
EXFO posts Q2 sales of US$73.9 million, up 14%
EXFO reported IFRS sales of US$73.9 million for its second quarter, ended February 28, 2019, up 14.2% from US$64.7 million in the second quarter of 2018. Second-quarter sales for 2019...
Vertical Systems: AT&T tops U.S. Fiber Lit Buildings LEADERBOARD
Vertical Systems Group’s 2018 U.S. Fiber Lit Buildings LEADERBOARD results are as follows (in rank order by number of fiber lit buildings): AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Crown...
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