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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A socially distanced Mobile World Congress Barcelona kicked off earlier this week with the heavy weighs of the European telecoms space all hinting at the same thing, changes in regulation and a fairer playing field.
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Telia Company has sold 49% of its Nordic tower business for €722 million to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Alecta.
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Russia’s largest mobile operator, Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) has acquired MTT for ₽5 billion (US$69 million) on an enterprise value basis.
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During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding delivered a keynote speech Innovation: lighting up the future.
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Gaming publishers are looking for partners that can provide a ‘fast lane’ for gamers to reduce lag. Saad Siddiqui, principal at Telstra Ventures, explains why such requirements are driving technological advancement in infrastructure
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Princeton Digital Group (PDG) is splashing out $1 billion to build one of the largest hyperscale data centres in Tokyo, Japan, as the Singapore-based company enters the country for the first time.
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Gordon Moir, Partner at Wiggin LLP, explains the vulnerable and challenging situation the UK telecoms industry will find itself in as a result of the new telecommunications (security) bill
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International technology distributor Exertis has completed the acquisition of French structured cabling and network device distributor Azenn after receiving regulatory approval.
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BAI Communications is to acquire Mobilitie in a deal that is expected to close in the third quarter of this year.
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UK edge data centre services provider Proximity Data Centres has appointed Dominic Thomas as business development director.
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Global connectivity services firm Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point-of-presence at Internet Port Hamburg (IPHH), its second PoP in the northern German city.
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Nominations are now open for Capacity's top 20 ICT investors list 2021.