DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Networking, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Lightpath to convert former prison in Pennsylvania into network facility
Fiber firm picking up project long-planned from United Fiber and Data
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Openreach delays closing two UK telephone exchanges
Two of three pilot closures delayed
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Lumen partners with QTS to bring fiber to new data centers across US
Partnership to bring more than a dozen QTS facilities onto Lumen’s network
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AFR-IX signs Medusa connectivity deal with Saudi telecoms firm Salam
Salam to deliver terrestrial backhaul services and incorporate Medusa into Saudi network
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STC signs contract with Solutions unit to expand network capacity for 5G
New infrastructure to be placed in STC data centers across the kingdom
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Kyushu Electric Power, IIJ, 1Finity, and others partner for distributed photonics data center project
Companies look to test distributed data centers in Japan
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Arista developing liquid-cooled network switches
Company developing liquid-cooled network rack that could consume more than 120kW
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Silicon photonics company OpenLight secures $34m in funding
Company secures funds, targets data center interconnect market
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Infostellar adds NorthBase to ground station network
Japanese GSaaS provider adds Finnish site to platform
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US Signal to expand capacity at data centers in Michigan & Detroit
Company plans 1,000 miles of new fiber as well as micro-Edge data centers
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Hunter Newby & Connected Nation break ground on IXP in Wichita, Kansas
First carrier-neutral Internet Exchange in Sunflower State to be managed by DE-CIX
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DSP chip firm Retym emerges from stealth with $180m in funding
Company aims to target incumbents with new chip for data center interconnect
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Cloudflare adds wave machines to random encryption system in Portugal
Company adds liquid wall of entropy in Lisbon
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Taara exits Alphabet’s X labs, secures external funding
Freespace optics company reveals new optical chip
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Cisco signs 100MW PPA with X-Elio in Texas
Company to offtake from two solar farms due live in 2027
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SES and Intelsat invest in cell tower in space firm Lynk Global
Terms of both investments not shared.
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Nvidia quietly acquires AIOps firm Augtera Networks
GPU giant rolls networking monitoring firm into Spectrum-X portfolio
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Vodafone pilots using drones equipped with Taara nodes for emergency connectivity
Telco trialing free-space optics for when underground fiber is damaged
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Meta looks to redesign ILA fiber repeater buildings for modern networks
Social network company takes aim at fiber shelters
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Lightpath closes United Fiber and Data acquisition, launches Edge data center unit
Company to deploy modular facilities at ILA sites along fiber network
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Verizon announces AI-centric network offering, partners with Vultr
Telco has excess capacity for compute at many sites, hundreds of acres of land available for build-out
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AT&T signs $850m sale-leaseback deal for 74 copper network Central Offices
Company looks to offload copper network assets
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Oracle and Vodafone partner for IoT communications platform
Oracle’s ECP offering integrates with Vodafone’s global IoT networks
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Intelsat’s 33e GEO satellite breaks up in orbit
Failed satellite same model as the 29e failure in 2019
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CDN provider Edgio files for bankruptcy
Company looks to sell assets
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Telesat sells Infosat Communications unit
Offloads unit to Network Innovations
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Zella DC partners with Laser Light to deploy micro-data center pods
Pods to form part of Laser Light’s network offering
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NTT and partners conduct 5G trial of high-altitude HAPS antenna
Companies put antenna on Cessna plane