VMware Cloud on AWS expands its geographic reach
VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Asia-Pacific (Sydney) region. VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand service that reduces the cost and effort associated...
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Times of India: Mobile networks recover quickly from Kerala flood
Service has been restored to almost all telecom tower following the worst flooding in the Indian state of Kerala in nearly a century. According to the Times of India, the...
Comcast’s Internet Essentials reaches 6 million low-income households
Over the past year, Comcast connected more than two million people to its Internet Essentials program, which provides broadband access for low-income families. The program now serves more than six...
AT&T tests LTE-connected drones for medical deliveries
AT&T is testing LTE-connected drones for delivering temperature-sensitive medicines. AT&T participated in a field trial in Puerto Rico with Merck and Softbox, which developed a thermal-insulated packaging system called "Skypod"...
ZAIN Iraq picks Ericsson for RAN upgrade
Zain Iraq selected Ericsson to upgrade a number of its legacy sites with Ericsson Radio System. Under the contract, Ericsson will provide higher capacity and improve network performance. Ali Al...
Broadcom gains HSR approval for CA Technologies acquisition
Broadcom announced that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 has expired with respect to the proposed acquisition of CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA). Expiration of the...
Vertical Systems: Mid-Year 2018 U.S. Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD
Vertical Systems Group released its Mid-year 2018 U.S. Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD listing the top seven carriers, in rank order based on retail port share, as follows: CenturyLink, AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum...
Dell’Oro: ZTE ban impacted Q2 Optical transport equipment market
The Optical Transport network equipment market declined in 2Q18 due to the ZTE ban, according to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group As a result of the ZTE ban,...
Dell’Oro: SD-WAN market to grow at 35% CAGR for next 5 years
Dell’Oro Group is predicting that the sales of Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technologies will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 35 percent over the next five...
IDC: NFVI revenues to hit $5.6 billion in 2022
Worldwide NVFI revenues were just $564 million in 2017 but will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 58.1% over the 2017-2022 forecast period, reaching $5.6 billion in 2022,...
Alicloud posts US$710 million in Q2 revenue, up 93% yoy
Alibaba's Cloud Computing division recorded revenue of RMB 4,698 billion (US$710 million) for Q2 2018, up 93% over the same period last year. EBITA was RMB (488) million, reflecting a...
CBRS Alliance passes 100-Member Milestone
The CBRS Alliance, an industry organization focused on driving the development, commercialization, and adoption of "OnGo" shared spectrum solutions, now has over 100 member organizations. The CBRS Alliance, which is...
SAIC picks CyrusOne as preferred data center in Virginia
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) will relocate one of its two data centers to a CyrusOne data center in Northern Virginia by the first half of 2019. “During the past...
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