DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Networking, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Aqua Comms launches US-Denmark AEC-2 submarine cable
The cable forms part of the North Atlantic Loop
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GTT sells cable and data center assets to I Squared for $2.15bn
GTT hopes to restructure its business model while chipping away at its debt
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American Tower launches Edge data center in Austin, Texas
This follows the company's Edge rollouts in Colorado, last month
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FCC commissioner calls for greater scrutiny over 'adversary' submarine cable connections
With a focus on China
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Equinix and Omantel launch data center near Muscat, Oman
The facility comes with a whole host of submarine cable connections
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Nokia scores BT 5G supply contract, squeezing out Huawei
Nokia will gradually replace Huawei's kit throughout BT's network
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Flexential to break ground on its largest data center in Hillsboro
Starting in two days' time
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Supermicro unveils 1U NEBS server for Edge deployments
The new server is a resilient piece of kit for deployment at the Edge
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Nokia to use Equinix's data centers for cloud and Edge network service WING
Nokia will use Equinix's reach to rollout its platform to businesses globally
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Ericsson buys US wireless WAN company Cradlepoint in $1.1bn 5G push
Cradlepoint will operate as an Ericsson subsidiary after the deal closes
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FirstLight takes over KINBER's fiber assets in Pennsylvania, US
The company is looking to be a big fiber player in the Northeast US
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H5 Data Centers' San Antonio facility gets fiber expansion by FiberLight
H5 is working on expanding the carrier hotel's footprint throughout Texas
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DE-CIX to build Internet exchange between three providers in Ruhr region, Germany
It'll be online later this year
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KPN to pilot recycled plastic fiber optic cabling
The company hopes the change will cause several positive knock-on effects
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Chile's Transoceanic Cable to connect to New Zealand and Australia
Instead of going directly to Asia
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Google Grace Hopper cable to link US, UK, and Spain
Planned for 2022
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GCX appoints Colt's Carl Grivner as CEO
The new CEO takes over the reins from GCX's interim head, Rory Cole
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FiberLight appoints its owner Jim Lynch as interim CEO
After Don MacNeil leaves for GTT
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HPE to acquire SD-WAN firm Silver Peak for $925m in network edge push
Silver Peak will combine with HPE’s Aruba Networks
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Nokia launches data center switches, routers, and networking OS; scores Apple, Equinix, and BT deals
A new network hardware range to automate workloads
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Alphabet's Loon balloons up and floating over Kenya
Internet-by-balloon service gets its first commercial outing
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Singapore finalizes 5G contract winners, Nokia and Ericsson named as suppliers
Three Singaporean telcos will build the networks with gear from Nokia and Ericsson
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Canada's Bell and Telus drop Huawei, pick Ericsson and Nokia for 5G roll out
Another country dumps Huawei
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Cisco to acquire Internet monitoring company ThousandEyes
The deal is estimated to be around $1bn
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China Mobile and Facebook in joint project to build 2Africa submarine cable
Along with a number of the biggest telcos in Africa
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Aruba activates Cogent network PoP at Milan data center
The connection lets Aruba customers piggyback off of Cogent's infrastructure
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Supermicro unveils outdoor Edge box for 5G cell towers
Coming to a pole near you
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Nokia CEO, Rajeev Suri, to step down; Fortum's Pekka Lundmark to step up
It has been a rough few years for Nokia