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Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President. -
Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
Forthcoming events
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The AB Handshake community is dramatically changing the way communications providers validate telephone calls and prevent fraud.
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AT&T and Cisco have launched 5G network capabilities that will enhance the performance of IoT applications across the US.
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Wind River and Intel have announced the joint development of a 5G vRAN solution.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies confirms the launch of a point of presence (PoP) in Miami, connecting to the Liquid network via a South Atlantic subsea cable.
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Canada-based satellite operator Telesat has signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement with NSSLGlobal, an independent provider of satellite communications to the government and maritime industry, to collaborate on the commercial and technical aspects of its new low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellation, Telesat Lightspeed.
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Comcast Business has signed a deal for an undisclosed sum to acquire Masergy, a Texas-based player focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud platforms for global enterprises.
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Pascal Menezes, CTO at MEF explains how inter-provider automation across federated networks speeds up time to revenue.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Steven Parrott, Product Management and Strategy; TOMIA on the challenges of global roaming during the pandemic and how TOMIA have adapted. Steve gives insight into other areas of the business including the increasing demand for voice and messaging services and some use cases.
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Intelsat says it has gained support from key creditor groups on the terms of an extensive financial restructuring that would cut the satellite operator’s debt by more than half, from almost $15 billion to $7 billion.
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The telecoms industry’s global aid organisation Télécoms sans Frontières (TSF) has installed a broadband satellite connection in Haiti, in the area hit by the 14 August earthquake.
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NJFX has appointed Gabe Pannella as its new vice president of business development.
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Windstream Wholesale has begun work to add fibre to three new routes on its growing transport network.
