Technologies
-
Global interconnection and hyperscaler data centre giant Equinix has agreed a partnership with Quside to protect its customers against cyber-attacks using the Spanish firm’s entropy solution.
-
In a letter, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called for the European Commission to develop regulations to protect against quantum computers being used for malicious purposes.
-
Singtel will partner with Cisco, Fortinet and Nokia to provide quantum security solutions to enterprises through its Quantum Safe Network (QSN).
-
British semiconductor researchers and businesses will have enhanced access to funding from Horizon Europe and the government, the UK announced yesterday.
-
Over 225,000 ChatGPT accounts were found to be up for sale on dark web marketplaces between January and October last year, selling for as low as US$1 per account.
-
ORCA Computing and BT Group have showcased technology innovations to demonstrate how quantum communication and computing systems can integrate with classical data centres.
Forthcoming events
-
Toshiba Europe and Orange have completed a set of lab evaluations in the field of quantum-secure communications.
-
Korea Quantum Computing (KQC) has collaborated IBM to offer IBM's most advanced AI software and infrastructure, as well as quantum computing services.
-
Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to IBM’s Lory Thorpe on building the quantum safe networks of tomorrow and her journey into the industry.
-
Capacity speaks to Daniel Gilks, senior research manager, breakthrough prototyping, BT Group, about the teams recent breakthrough in mobile technology.
-
Professor William Webb, CTO of Access Partnership
-
SK Telecom (SKT) and Thales have successfully tested advanced quantum-resistant cryptography in a joint collaboration.
-
Capacity rounds up industry takeaways from the UK’s Autumn budget
-
We all know how basic network communications work. Between two points, data is transmitted using various technologies and across various types of infrastructure (subsea fibre, terrestrial fibre, satellite or wireless) mostly reliant on electromagnetic waves, to reach its end point.
-
Libyan United International for Telecommunication and Technology (LUIC), and Medusa Submarine Cable System have entered into an agreement to extend Medusa to the Libyan coast.
-
Researchers from The University of York in collaboration with the Quantum Communications Hub and euNetworks have successfully demonstrated that quantum communication is possible between the UK and Ireland.
-
Quantum Science, the infrared quantum dot (QD) technology expert company, has appointed Shimura Masayuki as its new commercialisation director as the business looks to expand in international semiconductor markets.
-
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that was co-founded by former OpenAI leaders has raised US$100 million in funding from SK Telecom (SKT).
-
Vodafone Business has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include Spain as one of its markets to use the service.
-
Orange, Medusa, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Elettra Tlc will begin work on the Medusa Submarine Cable, aimed at boosting connectivity across the Mediterranean.
-
Nokia and Proximus confirm the successful completion of Europe’s first live hybrid quantum encryption key trial.
-
IBM is to open its first Europe-based quantum data centre to enable access to quantum computing for companies, research institutions and government agencies.
-
While some claim ChatGPT 4.0 can enable a new wave of business messaging, George Malim finds enterprises do not trust the AI chatbot and legal and regulatory issues with it are yet to be resolved.
-
As quantum computing evolves, Guy Matthews examines how this advanced technology can be applied to satellite communications.
-
HORISEN has unveiled the integration of ChatGPT into its Business Messenger, an omnichannel platform for messaging campaigns and customer communication.
-
EAGLE-1 consortium lead SES has a new partner, TESAT, which will develop and integrate the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) payload for the EAGLE-1 satellite.
-
Orange Tunisia and Medusa Submarine Cable System inked an agreement earlier this week to deploy a subsea cable linking Tunisia, Bizerte to Europe, via France, Marseille.
-
China Telecom is developing its own ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence (AI) model.
-
Quantum startup Riverlane has announced it has raised £15 million in Series B funding.
-
Verizon Business is providing Siemens with a range of network connectivity solutions enabling Siemens’ employees with a ‘plug and play’ offering, built on security and zero trust principles.
-
Arqit has appointed Roberta Faux as its head of cryptography and field chief technology officer (CTO).
-
BT has voiced its support for the UK government’s 10-year investment into quantum computing technologies to boost the national economy.
-
Italy’s ban on ChatGPT has set a precedent that could influence other countries to follow suit, particularly if they have similar concerns.
-
Jennifer Didoni, head of cloud, edge and mobile private networks, Vodafone Business, shares how and why she sees MEC being used for digitisation across industries.
-
High altitude platforms (HAPs) and satellites have been promising to revolutionise mobile connectivity for at least 30 years. HAPs such as drones, aerostats and balloons have been suggested for spot coverage, emergency use and more recently projects such as Google Loon tried balloons to deliver connectivity in Africa. Starting with Iridium, satellite operators have tried to connect to handsets since the late 1990s. Yet I doubt that many cell phone users have ever made a call, or connected, via anything other than a terrestrial base station.
-
A new Cisco-sponsored centre at the University of Edinburgh is to research quantum computing, artificial intelligence and cyber security.
-
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is to lead the construction of a quantum-secured communications system for the European Union.
-
Windstream Enterprise has unveiled North America’s first comprehensive managed Security Service Edge (SSE) solution powered by Cato Networks.
-
Logpoint, a cybersecurity solutions provider, has released a ChatGPT integration for Logpoint SOAR, its security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solution, in a lab setting.
-
Microsoft confirms the third phase of its long-term partnership with OpenAI through an undisclosed multiyear, multibillion dollar investment.
-
Microsoft is to begin rolling out its Azure OpenAI service this week, allowing enterprises to integrate tools like DALL-E into their cloud apps.
-
Orange is joining forces with the Medusa Submarine Cable System to offer an open interconnection solution to all of the cable’s partners.
-
Quantum encryption company Arqit has made its QuantumCloud service available to customers on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
-
Toshiba’s Andrew Shields is looking at teleportation as a way of moving quantum-protected information. He tells Alan Burkitt-Gray the facts behind this ‘spooky’ piece of physics
-
The White House has condemned obsolescent encryption techniques to the waste bin in a simple eight-page memo, and told US Federal agencies to move to quantum encryption.
-
Satellite security company Arqit Quantum is saying that its QuantumCloud encryption software can reduce energy consumption by 58% compared with alternatives.
-
IBM will collaborate with Vodafone on quantum-safe cybersecurity as the operator joins the IBM Quantum Network.
-
SES has chosen Arianespace to launch its EAGLE-1 satellite, which will support the end-to-end secure Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for Europe.
-
Pioneer Media and its publishing partner Dynasty Gaming & Media has signed a gaming distribution agreement with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH).
-
Professor Tim Spiller of the Quantum Communications Hub speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the role of quantum in communications and innovations enabling it.
-
At the start of 2022, AFR-IX telecom publicised plans to build a new 8700km subsea cable called Medusa.
-
Kosc Telecom, a French wholesale-only CaaS provider, has launched a new MEF-compliant service called E-Access Fibre.
-
Ukrtelecom, Ukraine's incumbent telco, reports that as of this morning, 75% of its regional hubs remain operational and that its national carrier network is still working
-
OneWeb staff are waiting in Baikonur in Kazakhstan this week with their Arianespace colleagues wondering whether their fourteenth launch will take place.