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Global Operators Drive TIP's Open Optical Transponder

The transponder, developed by Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Telefónica, Telia, and Vodafone, is designed to meet the needs of metro, core, and data center interconnect applications. Read more.

GSMA MWC Barcelona Compensation Linked to Event’s Future

Individual attendees will get all their money back. Exhibitors will have to choose between less now or more later. Read more.

Juniper Security VP: Networks Must Be Threat Aware

Samantha Madrid joined the company with a very specific security strategy: change how we secure networks by making the network itself threat aware. Read more.

Cockroach Labs Defends Default Config of AWS, Azure, GCP Test

“Ultimately, each cloud can’t hide from public, open-source benchmarks,” said Cockroach Labs' Andy Woods. Read more.

5G Standards Delayed for Industrial IoT, Low Latency

Release 16 and Release 17 have both been pushed back three months, despite claims from leadership earlier this month that the original deadlines would be met. Read more.

SRG, Dell’Oro: Server Spending Set to Surge

Both firms’ market reports echo similar findings of vendors spending billions to build or expand data centers to offer more cloud infrastructure services. Read more.