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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Amazon Web Services was hit with a six-hour outage in Japan today which crippled online trading, communications firms and transport companies, among others.
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SoftBank and its flying base station unit, HAPSMobile, say they have found a way to increase coverage from its Sunglider uncrewed solar-powered aircraft.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened applications for the upcoming auction of 5G spectrum in the 850/900 MHz band.
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Equinix has moved into India with the completion of the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems, in an all-cash transaction of $161 million.
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There’s a lot going on in space today: new satellite mega-constellations are springing up in multiple orbits, high-throughput satellites (HTS) have been launched into the skies, and SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon are planning huge rollouts of satellites in a low Earth orbit (LEO) over the coming years.
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Big Data Exchange (BDx) has entered into an agreement with Red Dot Analytics (RDA) to digitise BDx’s Asia-Pacific data centres, for greater efficiency and sustainability.
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Telstra has closed the part sale of Telstra InfraCo Towers, with the business now known as Amplitel Pty Ltd.
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Following the well-publicised CDN outages of 2021, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores how we can future-proof this infrastructure to avoid such events happening again
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Swarmio’s Vijai Karthigesu on how telcos can get a piece of the content gaming pie
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Colt Data Centre Services has started construction on a new data centre at Keihanna Science City, marking its fourth hyperscale facility in Japan.
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Andrew Wildblood, chief executive of Enterprise and Government at Vocus, speaks to Capacity about its recently announced $100 million cable interconnection creating the Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable.
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DCI Data Centers has acquired land in Adelaide's Technology Park, Mawson Lake, where it will build a second TIER-Ready III, secure cloud edge data centre, ADL03.
