Asia Pacific
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Internet Exchange operator DE-CIX has partnered with submarine cable firm GCX to resell the IX’s India’s services to end global end customers. -
Mobily and Telecom Egypt have partnered to launch a submarine cable linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt via the Red Sea to expand connectivity in the region.
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Nokia has secured a contract extension with Taiwan Mobile to boost the performance and capacity of its 5G network and upgrade its 4G/LTE network.
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SK Telecom has unveiled plans to build an “AI infrastructure superhighway” which includes constructing gigawatt-scale data centres across Asia and the Pacific.
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Intel is reportedly expanding its chip packaging and testing facility in Chengdu, China despite the embattled firm’s scaling back expansion projects in Europe.
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Nokia has expanded its work with Vietnamese service provider Viettel, with the operator set to deploy its optical transport solutions to scale network performance following their joint achievement of a record optical transmission speed.
Forthcoming events
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Superloop has entered into an agreement with Columbia Capital and DigitalBridge Investment Management, to sell Superloop (Hong Kong) for A$140 million ($103.6 million).
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The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) has published the names of the organisations that have been confirmed as being compliant with the GLF Code of Conduct (CoC).
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As digitalization progresses, new technologies and new scenarios — such as 5G, cloud computing, IoT, and industrial Internet — are booming, and network connectivity has never been so important.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman spoke to Sami Slim, Deputy Director; Telehouse France and Mark Pestridge, Senior Director, Customer Experience; Telehouse Europe on their recent expansion and refurbishment of their data centres and what is next on the horizon for 2022.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Michael Glynn, Vice President Digital Automated Innovation of PCCW Global about how Console Connect is helping carriers to extend their global reach at the click of a button.
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As the world continues to cope with the global semiconductor shortage, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores the effect of this on the telecommunications industry
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KDDI confirms that it has begun the global provisioning of Cato Cloud as of April 2021, with KDDI America, to start from 14 October 2021.
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OneWeb changes teams; Adamo switches owners; Orange's 5G showcase; and Aqua Comms' Nigel Bayliff
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Communications Business Automation Network (CBAN) has launched an identity service that verifies partners for any use-case, to automate settlement between ICT Service Providers.
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NTT DoCoMo and its Thailand-based subsidiary Mobile Innovation (MI) will collaborate with the Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS) to evaluate the feasibility of delivering AOTS’s technical training programs from Japan to overseas countries.
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SoftBank and KDDI have chosen Nokia as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared radio access network (RAN).
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Stack Infrastructure has taken its first step into the Asia Pacific market with the opening of its Singapore HQ – and it has also named its new Asia-Pacific CEO.
