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News - Networking
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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Verizon powers American AI with billions-strong Corning fiber deal
Multibillion-dollar deal takes in 80-plus million miles of high-density optical fiber
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GoPro to enter AI data center market via merger with optical photonics company
Company has entered into a merger agreement with Action Acquisitions and Starman Optical
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HPE caps stellar Q3 with Oracle ‘gigawatt scale’ networking deal
Hyperscaler and long-time Juniper user keeps faith, but backlog headaches linger on
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HPE rolls out AI-focused connectivity upgrades at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Hopefully the upgrades, which include a WiFi 7 rollout, bring better results on the pitch for the club
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Microsoft links Azure with AWS for hyperscale harmony
Amazon cloud gets multicloud networking boost
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Optics startup Quintessent secures $40m to revolutionize interconnects for AI
Ciena among backers of DWDM link player using gallium arsenide over supply-chain-constrained indium phosphide
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Could a tiny ‘rainbow’ chip be the key to faster 6G communications?
Scientists develop rice-sized chip for next-gen millimeter-wave connectivity
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Colombia halts construction of 1,600km fiber network in the Amazon
The technical and financial complexity of the deployment has led the government to withdraw the procurement process
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Relativity Networks completes $22m raise, as hollow-core fiber provider secures $40m hyperscaler contract
Follows the company's recent manufacturing milestone with Prysmian
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Gramercy Networks unveils plans for low latency global financial backbone
Vendor targets trading firms with unified high-speed connectivity linking financial centers across three continents
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Lockheed Martin taps Verizon, Nvidia to prepare drone detection service
A host of other partners have worked to support the "airspace as a network service"
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Lightmatter launches 19-company strong initiative to standardize silicon photonics-ready infrastructure
Company has also published a 300-page whitepaper to support the project
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Arista smashes revenue records with $3bn+; CEO bullish on supply chain overhaul
Multi-year purchase commitments triple as Arista tightens supply to push further into non-Nvidia accelerator networking
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Nvidia AI interconnect darling Point2 bags $136m funding from Arm, others
Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success
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Indosat reinforces AI push with 1GW data center play
The company is working with wider Ooredoo Group along with partners Nvidia and Nokia
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Zayo enlists Nvidia to help build dedicated ‘AI corridors’ across the US
Fiber expansion project to connect high-demand markets and emerging data center hubs
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Lumen Q2 financials pitch NaaS, satellite as future networks as old ones keep hyperscale appeal
Latest earnings see AI and neocloud boost, but jury out on exact Alkira expectations
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FiberCop to convert copper exchanges into Edge data center network
The wholesale fixed network provider will create a network of more than 100 nodes throughout Italy
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NTT invests in OptQC to accelerate optical quantum computing
Expanded partnership moves beyond research to commercialization, targeting a fault-tolerant one-million-qubit system by fiscal 2030
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Verizon signs $1bn fiber deal with Google to connect hyperscaler's data centers
CEO Dan Schulman hints that more deals will come
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Prysmian, Relativity Networks pair to deploy their highest density hollow core fiber cable so far
Builds on the partnership signed between the two companies last March
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Nokia networking wins bolster latest earnings
Vendor also touts 105 percent bump in AI and cloud sales
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Wasabi to provide cloud object storage to Megaport
As the Network-as-a-Service provider continues to enter neocloud race
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Crown Castle CEO: Edge opportunity is gaining momentum
CEO Christian Hillabrant says towercos can help to ease some of the data center challenges
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Nvidia debuts Spectrum-6 switches to power next-gen AI networking
Microsoft and SpaceXAI join neoclouds among early users
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Microsoft taps 3M’s expanded beam tech to streamline AI infrastructure connectivity
Partnership to reduce data center deployment times… and dust