Nokia’s broad portfolio of optical networking hardware, software and professional services will be used by Swisscom to transform the operator’s existing infrastructure to a fully automated and high capacity optical transport network.

Wholesale and Capacity
Corning reports strong first quarter results
Corning Incorporated announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021.
Moro Hub, Huawei to build the largest solar-powered data center in MEA
Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, has signed an agreement with Huawei to build the largest solar-powered data center in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
Tata Communications, BIX bring superior submarine cable system to Bahrain
Tata Communications and Bahrain Internet Exchange (BIX) extend their partnership to offer high-speed internet connectivity with very low latency for superior quality and seamless viewing, gaming, and download experience for customers in Bahrain.
New merger forms Whipcord Edge Data Centers
Canada 15Edge Data Centers Inc. (“C15Edge”), a provider of colocation data center solutions, announces that it has combined with Whipcord Ltd., an Alberta based cloud and colocation provider, to form Whipcord Edge Data Centers Inc. (“Whipcord Edge”). The transaction will allow Whipcord Edge to support the continued growth of its customers in both Eastern and Western Canada. Together, the company’s Toronto and Alberta based locations will allow Whipcord Edge to provide cross-Canada solutions for its clients to protect their mission critical data and information technology infrastructure.
Huawei unveils new CloudFabric 3.0 hyper-converged data center network solution
Huawei unveiled its latest CloudFabric 3.0 Hyper-Converged Data Center Network Solution at the Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference 2021. The solution is ideal for building lossless computing and storage networks based on an all-Ethernet architecture, and has been designed to unleash 100% of computing power, according to its statement.
Can quantum-enhanced receivers for fiber cables minimize capacity crunch?
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have developed quantum-enhanced receivers that could address the challenge of capacity crunch created by exponential growth in internet traffic, according to a Science Daily article, sourced from the American Institute of Physics.
Public cloud infra demand pushes global spend on data center hardware and software by 4%
Worldwide spend on data center hardware and software grew by 4% from 2019, according to Synergy Research Group data report.
MENA’s digital economy requires an increase in local capacity
As part of the overall Internet infrastructure, it is deemed important to build a local digital economy that can enable more local content and services. Within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this can be driven by increased usage of local Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).
Facebook’s Echo and Bifrost: The first transpacific subsea cables
Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific and North America regions, Facebook is set to build two new subsea cables — Echo and Bifrost — with leading regional and global partners.