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Alibaba to take stake in China operations of Germany’s Metro
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is in talks with Germany’s Metro about taking a stake in the German wholesaler’s China operations Read more…
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Infinera adds cloud-scale metro packet-optical platform to XTM family
Infinera has unveiled a metro edge packet-optical platform that it says is optimized for bandwidth-intensive cloud-scale applications at the metro edge such as remote PHY, 5G transport and data center interconnect (DCI). Infinera says the XTM Read more…
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MWC17: Huawei releases CloudMetro to – yes – take metro to the cloud
Huawei officially released its CloudMetro solution at MWC17 on Monday in a bid to help operators migrate their metro networks to an open and modular cloud-based architecture. CloudMetro allows metro networks to harness cloud technology Read more…
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Colt to expand metro area network connectivity in Hong Kong and Singapore
Colt has announced it will expand and enhance its Colt IQ Network in Singapore and Hong Kong this year as part of its plans to invest significantly into Asia over the next three years. Read more…
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FiberStar beefs up network in Java and Bali with IP/MPLS gear from Nokia
FiberStar, Indonesia’s national infrastructure service provider, has chosen Nokia’s equipment and services to help deploy IP/MPLS Metro Ethernet networks in 48 cities across the islands of Java and Bali. The scalability and flexibility of the Read more…