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Research reveals COVID communications impact

Industry experienced surge in demand across distributed locations, combined with escalating security concerns and major changes to customer strategies; nearly three quarters of UK providers believe the switch to remote working will be permanent.

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HCL Technologies acquire Cisco’s SON technology

HCL Technologies plans to acquire Cisco’s Self-Optimizing Network (SON) technology. This acquisition, which comprises of products and services built on Cisco’s SON technology, will help HCL meet the growing needs of its customers in the telecommunications industry, which includes tier-one communications service providers globally, by adding the power of Cisco’s SON’s multi-vendor multi-technology and application support to its clients.

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HDR InfiniBand makes a difference at Meteo France

HDR InfiniBand has selected by Meteo France to accelerate two new large-scale supercomputers, based on Atos’s latest BullSequana XH2000 technology.

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Focusing on the future of fibre optics

New Panduit White Paper – ‘Light into Money –The Future of Fibre Optics in the Data Centre Networks provides a Guide to help future proof data centre communications network infrastructure.

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FibreFab signs wtec AG as first FibreFab Elite Installation Partner

Further to showing dedication and commitment to being an innovative solutions company selected by partners worldwide, FibreFab has appointed wtec AG as the first FibreFab Elite Installation Partner.

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ServerCentral selects Ciena DCI Platform

To satisfy growing customer demands for cloud migration and high-performance applications,  ServerCentral is deploying Ciena’s® Waveserver stackable data center interconnect (DCI) platform.

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ITU and MEF to cooperate on standards

Standards to support growth of digital economy in hyper-connected world.

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Infinera unifies end-to-end product portfolio

Infinera has introduced a new unified Intelligent Transport Network product portfolio to address the surge in demand forecast for metro 100 gigabit per second (Gb/s) packet-optical networking solutions in 2016.

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Hanoi Telecom selects Infinera

Hanoi Telecom Corporation has selected the Infinera TM-Series, via its local partner Nissho Electronics Vietnam, for HTC's metro network in Vietnam connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Vung Tau.

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Adva introduces new data centre interconnect functionality

ADVA Optical Networking has added new client rates, multiplexing and amplification capabilities to its FSP 3000 CloudConnect™ platform. The company’s flagship data center interconnect (DCI) technology can now support 10Gbit/s and 40Gbit/s client rates in addition to 100Gbit/s.

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Videos

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.
Elliott Young, CTO, Dell Technologies UK, discusses edge computing – what is or isn’t happening as of now, how it contributes to companies’ sustainability objectives and, perhaps most importantly, the huge potential it offers almost every business when it comes to optimising the performance of their applications.
Interview with Bev Markland, Chief People Officer at Agilitas. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.

Expert Opinions

Procurement expert Keith Hausmann highlights how NLP and machine learning are driving efficiencies and savings while enabling sourcing teams to add more business value.