Ciena launches VC fund to back next-gen networking startups
$200 million tranche optical interconnect startup
News - North America, Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Nvidia’s Groq deal facing DOJ probe amid regulator scrutiny into acqui-hires: report
Justice Department investigation joins FTC inquiry into potential de facto big tech mergers
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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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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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Nvidia’s ultra-low-latency AI inference LPX racks hit full production
Neocloud Nebius among early adopters of platform promising 4x faster responsiveness for AI agents
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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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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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Nvidia debuts Spectrum-6 switches to power next-gen AI networking
Microsoft and SpaceXAI join neoclouds among early users
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Meta rebuilds its AI storage stack from the ground up to stop GPUs sitting idle
An inside look at how the wannabe cloud provider cuts data wait times by up to 97 percent
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Marvell boosts custom silicon push with AMD engineering lead hire
Engineering lead behind AMD EPYC efforts joins custom XPU team
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Equinix officially retires bare metal offering
The short-lived rise and fall of Equinix Metal
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Nvidia backs AI networking switch silicon startup Upscale in $190m raise
Upscale founding reaches $2 billion following Series A-1 extension
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Nokia to scale optics manufacturing in with $30m expansion in Pennsylvania
Workforce in Allentown set to double as optics continues to be key growth driver
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Arista Networks joins the 1.6T race with AI-centric switch platform
7060XE7 line taps Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 while AMD enlisted for use in scale-out AI fabric designs
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Lambda offers glimpse into Nvidia’s CPO switch, enabling 'more tokens' through substantial power savings
Microsoft-backed neocloud showcases liquid-cooled Quantum-X Q3450-LD, highlighting efficiency benefits and a lack of need for traditional transceivers
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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
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Lumen splashes $475m on Alkira to become the one network to rule them all
Cash-flush firm sees software vendor key to stitching together its north-south and east-west ambitions
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Everpure, formerly Pure Storage, now 70% more expensive amid memory crunch
CEO defends delicate pricing moment for Everpure and promises it's not profiteering
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Nokia goes all-in on optics as Infinera bet sparks 20% revenue surge
Vendor ramping up factory capacity to feed soaring optical demand
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IBM, Arm team up to build ‘dual-architecture’ hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads
Pair have come a long way since their salad days of co-creating IoT starter kits
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Google's 105-qubit Willow quantum processor opens for early access
Researchers invited to use not-yet-public chip that’s five times more reliable than its predecessor
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FCC bans all foreign-produced routers over "unacceptable risks to national security"
Imports of consumer-grade foreign-made routers subject to Covered List over cybersecurity and supply chain vulnerabilities
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Nvidia pumps $2bn into optical developer Lumentum
Agreement bolsters R&D and manufacturing efforts while securing Nvidia's future access rights to critical laser components
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Starlink targets 25m users by year-end as Gen2 satellite plan promises 100x data density
Satellite operator banking on S-band spectrum and new large phase array antennas to offer ‘terrestrial-like connectivity’ from space
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Taara launches photonics chip to break bottlenecks with light-based connectivity
CEO details how the innovation, which shrinks free space optics into a fingernail-sized piece of hardware, could extend to data centers and space
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Alphabet spin-out Taara debuts optical switching solution that ‘instantly upgrades’ networks
Launch comes as Airtel, SoftBank, and T-Mobile among carriers using original Lightbridge unit
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Big Fiber bypasses 'tapped out' Bay Area networks with dark fiber expansion
CoreSite's SV1 tenants gain access to high-speed, low-latency connectivity for data-heavy and AI workloads
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Nvidia's BlueField Astra brings unified network control to AI clusters
Next-gen Rubin platform will see DPUs help control all network I/O to and from the compute node