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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Telstra confirms the deployment of Infinera’s coherent 800G solution across its international subsea network.
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Satellite company OneWeb appears to be on the verge of ditching France’s Arianespace as its launcher and moving to the newly set up commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
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HGC Global Communications has appointed Eli Ngai as its new chief information officer (CIO), effective immediately.
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Zella DC has deployed its first micro data centre in Japan as part of an edge computing solution aimed at telecom operators.
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Edge Centres has started construction on its second site in Victoria, Australia, the Traralgon-based EC8.
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Revenues from cloud services and infrastructure increased 25% for operators and vendors in the first half of the year, taking revenues to $235 billion.
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Digital economy development is accelerating worldwide as economies look to recover from the effect of the ongoing pandemic. Indeed, the digital economy has become an important field for promoting economic recovery, establishing competitive advantages and improving governance capabilities.
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Small bit-and-piece distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose by 233% in the first half of 2021, revealed Nexusguard in its Threat Report FHY 2021.
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The first quantum network; the last landline; strategy updates from Orange; and Exa's Martijn Blanken
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India’s first carrier-neutral network infrastructure platform has selected Nokia to help it roll out Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions for enterprise customers.
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is planning two data centres in Greater Tokyo, Japan, to be developed by and leased from integrated property group Goodman.
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Colt Technology Services (Colt) confirms the availability of its new 400GE wave and private wave services.
