Alcatel
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French mobile operator Free has built what it claims to be the largest 5G connected factory in Europe for Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN). -
Softbank Group has a new leadership line-up and speculation is mounting that further appointments – and departures – could be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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Cloud company Platform9 has hired Bhaskar Gorti, formerly of Oracle and Nokia, as CEO.
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Nokia is making no profit on its mobile infrastructure sales and 2021 “will be challenging”, CEO Pekka Lundmark has admitted.
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Former Nokia executive Sam Bucci has been appointed to a newly created role at Ribbon Communications Inc.
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Ekinops has appointed a new CTO and vice president of research and development to strengthen the firm’s “technology vision”, accelerate software innovation and lead its engineering and support teams.
Forthcoming events
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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) have collaborated to launch a new co-branded cloud solution, exclusive to Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.
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Over the top (OTT) service providers and hyperscalers are driving the evolution of finance models for new submarine cable systems.
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The 4,700km Coral Sea cable from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands has landed in Australia and should be ready for service in December.
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Google Cloud is to buy enterprise file storage company Elastifile for a reported $200 million.
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Google and Antel are teaming up to extend the 2,200km Brazil-Uruguay Tannat undersea cable to Argentina in 2020.
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EllaLink Group and Emacom have announced today that their partnership on the EllaLink subsea system has extended further in order to meet the growing capacity demands of the islands of Madeira.
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Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucelare (INFN) have signed a new contract for the roll out of a submarine cable infrastructure for INFN’s submarine network, hosting an underwater multi-disciplinary laboratory incorporating a high-energy neutrino telescope, the largest one in the Mediterranean.
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Nokia is merging the management of its fixed networks and mobile networks units into a single division – and Marc Rouanne (pictured) has lost the fight to lead the unified access networks division.
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French network equipment maker Ekinops has approached Nokia about buying its Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) unit.
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Eutelsat has named former Alcatel man Gary Donnan as its new chief innovation officer, reporting directly into CEO Rodolphe Belmer.
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SAEx International and Alcatel Submarine Networks will commence desktop study, permitting and survey activities for a new 25,000km subsea cable network linking Asia, South Africa and the Americas.
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A new subsea cable linking the remote African islands of Sao Tome and Principe with Equatorial Guinea has been launched.
