AI
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Tech Mahindra has opened a Centre of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms.
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Latin American data centre operator ODATA unveiled plans to construct two facilities in Colombia to provide 144MW of connectivity to the region.
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Nokia has partnered with Lenovo to offer data centre solutions designed to meet increasing demand for AI workloads.
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Oriole Networks, a startup developing photonic networking technologies, has secured $22 million in funding to address the growing data centre demands driven by AI workloads.
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Lightmatter, a startup developing computing hardware that uses light instead of electricity has raised $400 million with its valuation soaring to $4.4 billion.
Forthcoming events
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German IT service provider DATEV has bought a data centre it uses from colocation and digital services firm q.beyond AG.
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Tata Communications saw a 14.9% year on year increase in profit after tax in Q1 FY2022, to US$40 million (INR 296 Crore), and growth of 0.7% in consolidate revenue quarter on quarter to $556 million.
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Network-as-a-service provider Megaport is extending the reach of its services through a new PartnerVantage programme aimed at system integrators, managed service providers and distributors, among others.
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The UK government is apparently considering blocking chip maker Nvidia from completing its $40 billion acquisition of British competitor Arm on “national security” grounds.
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Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is the official charity partner for International Telecoms Week in 2021.
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CyrusOne is expanding its European footprint beyond the FLAP-D markets through building a new 21MW Madrid facility.
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Mantra Data Centers is investing $1 billion to develop data centres in different Indian regions.
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Radware's telecoms customers saw attack volumes amounting to 18TB per month in Q2, with an average of 600 attacks every 30 days.
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AT&T and TPG have closed the deal to establish DirecTV, the new standalone entity that will own and operate DirecTV, AT&T TV and U-verse video services.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Georges Jaber, Vice President, Wholesale Commercial, Salam; on the recent rebrand and what’s coming next for the business
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Vantage Data Centers says the company will achieve net zero carbon emissions globally by 2030.
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Cloud and network connectivity provider GBI (Gulf Bridge International) is expanding its collaboration with Equinix by establishing a point-of-presence at the Equinix data centre in Oman.