DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cisco
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
-
Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
-
Asperitas develops wall-mounted immersion tank for Edge use cases
Company working with Cisco to immerse Unified Edge hardware as a way to protect servers from dust and damage
-
Cisco hits hole-in-one to secure network infrastructure nod for The Open
Network giant to bring AI-ready network to golf’s oldest tournament
-
Quantum firm Atom Computing secures $100m Series C funding
Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Cisco Investments put money into Atom's atomic array-based tech
-
Cisco plans to bring SONiC foundation to customers beyond just hyperscalers
Blog post inadvertently reveals SONiC support for data center switches will extend to enterprises, neoclouds
-
AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
-
Cisco unveils quantum switch to bridge incompatible systems
Prototype converts between encoding modalities with less than four percent fidelity loss
-
Cisco partners with e-waste recycling firm DEScycle to trial metal recovery platform
Demonstration project to be conducted at plant in Wilton, UK
-
Cisco alum joins Finchetto to drive optical switching for AI
Former Cisco VP and Saisei Networks founder backs British startup’s bid to shake up the switch market
-
Akamai deploys Nvidia "AI Grid" across 4,400 Edge locations, claims to be first
Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Crown Castle follow suit
-
Cisco to build data center in Krakow, Poland
Facility to include R&D laboratories
-
Next-gen switches & servers: Everything unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA 2026
Showcase in Amsterdam debuts 100Tbps network silicon, ultra-high bandwidth pluggable optics, and a unified control plane
-
Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon
Working with Gabonese government and Cisco on project
-
Cisco finalizes 15-year PPA with R.Power to support development of four Polish solar projects
Projects will deliver 470GWh of power over the contract's duration
-
Cisco signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland
Will supply Cisco with 486MWh of power over the contracted agreement
-
IBM partners with Cisco for development of distributed quantum network
Proof-of-concept expected to be delivered by 2030
-
AMD, Cisco, and Humain set up JV for 1GW of AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Already has its first customer
-
Indosat CEO Vikram Sinha: AI has to be for everyone
The telco wants to put Indonesia's AI focus on the map
-
US's Export-Import Bank approves more than $100m in financing guarantees for digitalization in Côte d'Ivoire
Will facilitate construction of data center
-
AI chip company Groq raises $750m at $6.9bn valuation
Round was led by investment firm Disruptive
-
Digital Alpha invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute
Will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint
-
Rakuten Mobile keeps Cisco with Nokia, F5 for long-awaited 5G SA network
Analysts surprised at upstart's timing with Standalone and Advanced
-
Real Madrid and Cisco to develop data center at training campus
Will be used for AI, as well as "traditional" workloads
-
Cisco’s Qunnect investment fuels its quantum focus
Quantum networking toward a quantum Internet
-
Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle, and OpenAI join UAE-US AI Campus - report
Looks to be home to an OpenAI Stargate deployment
-
Cisco joins Humain's Saudi AI push, extends partnership with UAE's G42
As Humain partners with tech's biggest players
-
Cisco unveils prototype quantum network entanglement chip
Company has also opened quantum lab in Santa Monica, California
-
Cisco signs 100MW PPA with X-Elio in Texas
Company to offtake from two solar farms due live in 2027