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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Mobile operators in Ireland and Singapore are to introduce a registry that will aim to prevent fraudulent use of sender IDs in text messages.
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It’s nearly two years since Global Cloud Xchange was separated from its Indian owner, and a year since Carl Grivner took over as the new CEO. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him how it’s going
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Whether it’s smart cities or Industry 4.0, Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, explains why seamless onboarding and convergence are key to success
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In many earthquake-prone countries, base isolation is used widely; but it is not used so much in the US. Now a Silicon Valley data centre has combined it with other techniques to offer a new level of protection. Melanie Mingas looks at whether others could follow the lead
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Building restrictions, energyrestraints, materials costs and changing technologies are all issues and potential obstacles to successful deployments of data centre building projects. Antony Savvas looks at how the industry is coping
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Japan’s hyperscale market is heating up – and with the addition of Princeton Digital Group’s $1 billion new campus, things are about to get even hotter. Melanie Mingas talks to Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-founder
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Online, failure is a fact of life – and service provision. However, as Neil Miller, director, solutions engineering, Cisco ThousandEyes, writes, the severity of outages can be mitigated
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The cloud is forcing many to define how – and where – the telco of the future should operate. Annie Turner examines the implications and outlook
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Globe Telecom has confirmed it is pivoting its primary business to become a "digital solutions group", as its market valuation set a new record.
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Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel), a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia, has taken over 4,000 cell towers from Telkomsel for $436 million.
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STL has appointed a new CEO to replace Ankit Agarwal, who led the business through the acquisition of Optotec and Metallurgica Bresciana and increased STL’s scale and presence in Italy, the UK, US, Brazil and China.
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Back for series 3, this episode features Melanie Mingas, editor at Capacity Media; editor-at-large, Alan Burkitt-Gray; deputy editor, Natalie Bannerman; and special guest Carl Roberts, partner at Hadaara Consulting.
