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• Nokia breaks capacity records using Facebook submarine cable

  21-03-2017 17:28
  
  Nokia has shocked the world once again, breaking the capacity record over Facebook’s 5500 km submarine cable between New York and Ireland.
  Using Nokia Bell Labs’ probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) technology, the pair achieved spectral efficiency of 7.46 b/s/Hz and increased the stated capacity of the system by almost 2.5 times. If that wasn’t enough, hold onto the edge of your seat, because the 11000 km round trip submarine transmission achieved a record spectral effici
  
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• Fingerprint shares crash on revenue warning

  21-03-2017 14:45
  Swedish sensor maker for smartphones and tablets alarms investors with dividend removal
  
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• Altice drops €285m to boost advertising game

  21-03-2017 14:25
  
  Telco group Altice has entered into an agreement to acquire online video advertising marketplace Teads in a deal worth €285 million.
  The acquisition adds another component to Altice’s global advertising strategy, which will see the telco provide customers with data-driven, audience-based advertising solutions on multiscreen platforms including TV, digital, mobile and tablets.
  Altice was quick to mention the Teads business itself is a strong enough performer to stand-alone followi
  
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• Wi-fi on rays of light: 100 times faster, and never overloaded

  21-03-2017 13:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eindhoven University of Technology gets a speed of 42.8 Gbit/s with a ray of light in an optical wireless network Click here for more.
  
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• Inoapps First To Receive New Oracle MSP Status

  21-03-2017 13:29
  
  Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has been accepted and accredited by Oracle as the first UK partner with IaaS specialisation to join its new Global Managed Service Provider (MSP) programme. As a fully accredited MSP, the company will provide Professional and Managed Services to Oracle IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) customers; spanning readiness assessments, migration and full implementation and managed services. This scheme will only be avail
  
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• Huawei gets cozy with the Kiwis

  21-03-2017 13:29
  
  Huawei has formalised its investment plans in New Zealand after a meeting between CEO Ren Zhengfei and the country’s Prime Minister Bill English.
  During the meeting, the pair discussing ICT infrastructure build-out and digital transformation, as well as Huawei’s R&D plans for the country, which will focus on the use of big data, and how to maximize the potential of the Internet of Things through future technologies such as 5G. As part of the initiative, Huawei will open an Innova
  
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• ARM unveils major new microarchitecture with AI in mind

  21-03-2017 12:39
  
  Chip designer ARM has announced a major new generation of processor microarchitecture, designed to enable the power and flexibility required by the artificial intelligence era.
  It’s rather awkwardly named DynamIQ – pronounced ‘dynamic’ but with a reference to intelligence. DynamIQ builds on the big.LITTLE (yes, this has been going on for a while) chip design launched in 2011, which focused on multiple heterogeneous cores and only using the one best suited to the job &ndas
  
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• IBM turns up heat in cloud pricing war

  21-03-2017 12:11
  
  The last couple of months have been relatively quiet for the major cloud players, though it looks like the lurking pricing war is just beginning to heat up.
  Speaking at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas, the team has announced launched a horde of new offerings, as well as a number of pricing options which certainly puts IBM Softlayer in the competitive bracket. One of the loudest announcements here was the introduction of a cold storage service, which Big Blue claims is cheaper, and quicker than riv
  
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• Italtel focuses on digital transformation at CeBIT 2017

  21-03-2017 10:30
  
  Advanced telemedicine platform, SDN and NFV solutions and quality of experience monitoring tools will be showcasedHannover, Germany, March 21, 2017 – Italtel, a leading telecommunications company in IT system integration, managed services, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and all-IP solutions, is showcasing its latest digital transformation solutions at CeBIT 2017. With expertise in the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Software Defined Networking (SDN), NFV, cyber security
  
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• Scarlet Chooses Cerillion for Quad-play Billing Transformation

  21-03-2017 10:08
  
  London, 21st March 2017 – Cerillion plc (AIM: CER), a leading provider of billing, charging and customer management systems, today announced it has been selected by Scarlet to deliver a complete business support system (BSS) to empower its quad-play service offering in Belgium. Cerillion is implementing the Convergent Charging System (CCS), CRM Plus, Revenue Manager, Service Manager and Self Service modules from its pre-integrated suite and will support Scarlet with the migration from its
  
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• India's competition watchdog OKs RCom-Aircel merger

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Reliance Communications and Aircel cleared another important hurdle to their mobile merger this week, after the Competition Commission of India gave them the green light.The approval comes less than a week after the deal was cleared by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei founder details New Zealand investment plan

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Huawei founder and permanent CEO Ren Zhengfei on Tuesday unveiled plans to open a data centre and research labs in New Zealand.Ren visited the country and met with prime minister Bill English to discuss working with local partners to build a New Zealand Cloud Data Centre…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti offloads 21.6% of Infratel

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Bharti Airtel on Tuesday sold a 21.63% stake in its towers business to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nettle Infrastructure Investments.Bharti Infratel disclosed in a stock exchange filing that Nettle has acquired 400 million shares…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T launches IBM-powered IoT analytics

  21-03-2017 01:00
  AT&T on Tuesday took the wraps off a new IoT analytics solution that uses IBM's Watson machine learning technology to give enterprises actionable insights into the performance of their connected machines.The pilot collaboration analyses and presents data harvested from AT&amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice snaps up online video ad firm Teads

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Altice on Tuesday struck a €285 million deal to acquire Teads, the company that invented those annoying video ads that appear in the middle of an article you're trying to read.Teads claims an audience of 1.2 billion unique visitors, including 720 million via mobile…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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