Tag: networks

November 9, 2023

According to the view of almost 100 CIOs, 39% of line managers are not fully satisfied with the applications that IT has provided. CIOs say that the thing that creates the most problems for line managers is application failure, which […]

September 14, 2023

Sabey Data Centers is partnering up with JetCool Technologies to work on advanced cooling solutions. JetCool specializes in liquid cooling solutions that target chip hotspots with precise microjets. The idea is to keep things cool enough to support higher computing […]

July 31, 2023

Cisco and Qwilt today announced that they are working with Fastweb, one of Italy’s leading telecommunications operators, to bring their joint Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution, based on Open Caching, to the Italian market. The new solution will enable Fastweb […]

July 24, 2023

The optical industry’s job is never done, as there is always a need for more speed and bandwidth. I remember clearly when Infinera burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s with new Indium Phosphide technology and photonic integrated circuits to […]

June 15, 2023

There was a bit of interesting consolidation in southeastern Europe this morning. EXA Infrastructure is continuing its infrastructure investment with a bit of the inorganic variety. They are acquiring Univerzalne Telekomunikacije, a.k.a. Unitel. Unitel operates out of Croatia in the […]

June 6, 2023

A team including researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology; Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.; Nagoya Institute of Technology; and Waseda University has jointly developed the world’s first system for the transparent relay, routing, and switching of […]

May 30, 2023

The biggest vendor names in the network space are those who provide the optical platforms and routers. But in between those areas at the intersection of different vendors, technologies, and designs there has long been space for independent innovation. One […]

May 26, 2023

Telco providers face several challenges in network planning. New technologies require many more antennas to be more precisely placed and configured than ever before. For example, this requires delivering 17 million microcells and towers by 2025 – an order of […]

April 28, 2023

In last week’s piece, I recounted some takeaways from the Enterprise Summit general session at Enterprise Connect 2023, where our panel of enterprise decision-makers discussed the challenge of keeping up with a constantly changing hybrid work environment. We followed that […]

April 12, 2023

Anritsu Company expands its Field Master™ MS2080A, a multi-functional spectrum analyzer that combines nine instruments into a single solution, to operate up to 6 GHz. With extended frequency coverage, the MS2080A addresses growing congestion in the 6 GHz spectrum caused […]

April 11, 2023

Might we have a pan-Arctic submarine cable system in just a few years? Far North Fiber has taken the next step toward making its proposed project reality by kicking off the cable route study, which would be followed by a […]

March 30, 2023

Corning has officially opened its new fiber cable facility in Hickory, North Carolina, which will significantly expand the company’s capacity to provide fiber for broadband deployment. The Trivium campus facility consists of two large buildings, with the first building already […]

March 30, 2023

Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Symphony UK officially opened the Rakuten Open RAN (O-RAN) customer experience center in the United Kingdom. The new facility is the result of international cooperation, with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) […]

November 11, 2022

Digitalization is rapidly transforming education at all levels. In K-12 schools, colleges and universities, the evolution of data-driven technologies has opened the door to a host of compelling online learning and campus operations applications. To take advantage of these applications, […]

October 26, 2022

The ongoing attempts to build subsea fiber through the Arctic Ocean have reached a new stage. Finland’s Cinia Oy, Alaska’s Far North Digital, and Japan’s ARTERIA Networks have teamed up to form a joint development corporation to drive the project […]

August 3, 2022

A new report by Darkhorse Global, a geo-economic and national security consultancy, makes some good points about the convergence of national security and industrial policy frameworks for telecommunications infrastructure. It outlines three “wicked problems” confronting today’s global ICT ecosystem. First, […]

July 28, 2022

Rogers Communications said it will spend to spend CA$10 billion (US$7.78 billion) over the next three years to avoid another outage like the one that took out services across Canada in early July. The company plans to leverage advances in […]

July 19, 2022

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reminded Congress again last week that the $1.9 billion Congress appropriated for the “rip and replace” program targeting the removal of some Chinese vendors’ equipment from domestic networks is drastically insufficient. […]

July 6, 2022

Is your firewall infrastructure coming up for a hardware refresh? More importantly, do you even know if it is time to upgrade? If you answered “no” to those two questions, then it might be time for a security review conducted […]

May 31, 2022

A couple network expansions, a bit of M&A, and another shift toward cloud-native. Colt Technology Services has moved into South Korea in force. The global network operator has established PoPs in four data centers in the Seoul metro area. The […]