Enterprise & IT Industry News
As we kick off 2025, a transformative year that could see an acceleration in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, we are share our final roundup of news stories of 2024 to help set the stage.
The month’s top industry news stories are summarized below. To view current breaking news in real-time, visit Pipeline’s News Center, follow Pipeline on social media, or subscribe to receive our weekly industry enterprise and communications technology news summary.
Network and Mobile News
Nokia has been selected by Cloudbear, a growing hosting
services provider in the Netherlands, to implement its state-of-the-art data center networking infrastructure. This complete data center deployment is implemented on the Kuberbetes-based CBWS
hosting environment. VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz announced that SKY Perfect JSAT has selected their joint Non-Terrestrial Network testbed for its recently unveiled “Universal NTN
Innovation Lab.” Aqua Comms and Ciena revealed the first-ever 1.3 Tb/s wavelength transmission spanning 5500km across the Atlantic.
This technical milestone was achieved using Ciena’s WaveLogic Extreme, the industry’s first fully programmable coherent technology capable of wavelength speeds up to 1.6Tb/s. Windstream
Wholesale successfully completed the world’s first 800 Gigabit Ethernet transatlantic service trial in partnership with Colt Technology Services and Nokia.
Rohde & Schwarz also announced a collaboration with Analog Devices to create a wide range of tests for Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link devices. NEC has finished construction of the
Asia Direct Cable, a high-performance submarine cable
connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. e& UAE is the first in the world to use its slicing solution to create a
dedicated end-to-end network
slice capable of meeting the speed and latency demands of today’s gaming applications. The Wireless Broadband Alliance released Private 5G and Wi-Fi Convergence Report:
Phase 2 Technical Considerations. KT plans to deploy Ciena's WaveLogic
6 Extreme to accommodate ongoing customer demands for services beyond 400GbE. This follows a successful trial where KT transmitted and received data across its long-distance route
between Seoul and Busan at 1.2 Tb/s, and at 1.6 Tb/s through its medium-distance route across Seoul and Cheonan.
Indra has selected the Keysight EW Advanced Simulation
Platform to enhance and accelerate EW test and evaluation capabilities. Mediacom Communications has upgraded its broadband network in Nebo, Kentucky to the cable industry’s new 10G Platform. Spirent
collaborated with Siemens Digital Industries Software to deliver a sophisticated pre-silicon test solution for Ethernet chipset design verification. Sercomm and Harmonic formed an exclusive technology collaboration to advance DOCSIS 4.0 unified technologies.
As part of this partnership, Sercomm will introduce its new DOCSIS 4.0 Unified Amplifiers, benefiting from Harmonic’s expertise in FDX and unified nodes.
