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Asteria launches drone-as-a-service offering for Indian verticals
Asteria Aerospace’s cloud-based SkyDeck offers services for drone fleet management, data processing, and AI-based analysis of aerial data. Read more…
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Why is CRT sticking a data center in a 17th-century French castle?
CRT Informatique is getting into the data hosting business in style by building a data center in a 378-year-old French castle. Read more…
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Huawei Cloud launches blockchain service worldwide
Huawei Cloud revealed that it has officially launched its Blockchain Service (BCS) for global use, following its commercial debut in China last month. Now available on the international Huawei Cloud website, the service – which Read more…
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Ciena launches analytics service for network optimization
Ciena has unveiled a new cloud-based intelligent analytics service that promises network providers and large enterprises actionable intelligence that can forge a path to creating more agile networks. As networks become more complex with increasing Read more…
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Alibaba Cloud expands blockchain-as-a-service overseas
Alibaba Cloud says it has expanded its blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) offering overseas to Southeast Asia, the US and Europe. Alibaba Cloud’s BaaS – which launched in China in October 2017 – provides an enterprise-level platform service Read more…
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Telserv and iBasis team up to expand virtual numbers offering
Telserv and iBasis have signed a strategic partnership that will target growing demand from OTTs and emerging demand from the global Unified Communication as a service (UCaaS) market, Communications platform as a service (CPaaS) and Read more…
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Netcracker launches full-stack SDN/NFV as a service
Netcracker Technology has announced the launch of what it claims is the industry’s first end-to-end, cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT solution – from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals and a digital marketplace – as a Read more…
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Syniverse and Mavenir launch RCS business solution
Syniverse and Mavenir have partnered to deliver a global cloud-based Rich Communication Services (RCS) business messaging as-a-service solution that promises to simplify messaging reach for brands and fuel A2P revenue opportunities for mobile operators. RCS Read more…
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Verimatrix reveals cloud content distribution platform
Verimatrix has unveiled a new content distribution platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that provides enhanced connectivity between content providers and video service operators, streamlines end-to-end workflows and automates video analytics reporting. The new ‘Viewthority’ platform, which is built Read more…
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Hyperscale capex juggernaut still going strong: report
Q2 capex for hyperscale operators was up 59% from a year ago, maintaining a record-setting start to the year and cementing the ability of the top five players to squash any new competition, says new Read more…
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StarHub and UOB collaborate to help SMEs go digital
StarHub and United Overseas Bank (UOB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore, to develop and to provide digital solutions to help SMEs accelerate their digitalization efforts. Under the MoU, UOB will be Read more…
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HGC teams with Blueface for global UCaaS service
HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) announced a collaboration with unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) provider Blueface to launch UC Anywhere, a service delivering integrated, feature-rich and flexible cloud-based UC solutions for corporations of all sizes. Corporations are Read more…
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Celcom Axiata adopts Huawei’s cloud-based OSS solution
Celcom Axiata has inked an agreement with Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) to deploy its cloud-based Digitized Operation Platform software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. Huawei says Celcom will be the first operator in the country to adopt a full Read more…
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Google’s CMMA keynote was an ML sales pitch – but a good one
Google Cloud’s CommunicAsia keynote was a blatant ad for its ML-as-a-service to enterprises. But as sales pitches go, at least it was a pretty good one. It seems to be a tradition at CommunicAsia (now part Read more…
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PCCW Global launches software-defined interconnect platform
PCCW Global has announced the public launch of Console Connect, a software-defined interconnect platform that enables customers to instantly provision direct private connections to remote data centers, partners, and cloud services on demand. According to Read more…
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Qlink rebrands as QLC Chain, launches NaaS blockchain
Hong Kong-based Qlink has rebranded itself as QLC Chain, which also just happens to be the name of its newly unveiled next-generation public blockchain for decentralized Network-as-a-Service (NaaS). The company says its ‘QLC Chain’ is Read more…
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AWS still rules cloud infrastructure services as spending grows
Spending on cloud infrastructure services in Q1 2018 jumped 51% from the first quarter of 2017, comfortably beating the growth rates achieved in the previous five quarters, thanks in no small part to Amazon Web Read more…
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Mavenir talks network transformation and mobile-native UCaaS
Network transformation continues to be a hot topic in the mobile sector, whether you’re talking about the RAN, the core or everything in between. That brings us quickly to Mavenir, which knows a little something Read more…
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Nokia is all about the digital smart cities with latest solutions
Nokia is aiming to boost its visibility in the smart cities space (or “digital cities”, as the company now calls them) with three new solutions plus a set of analytics-based smart-city services co-developed with Singaporean Read more…
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Megaport virtualizes Layer 3 connectivity with cloud router service
Megaport has announced the launch of Megaport Cloud Router (MCR), a virtual router service that enables customers to rapidly and privately connect at Layer 3 without the need to own or manage routers or physical Read more…