SoftBank partners with shipping giant MOL to develop maritime broadband via OneWeb satellites
All at sea with satellites
News - Connectivity
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NEC to build world's highest capacity submarine cable for Facebook, shuttling 500Tbps from US to Europe
The first cable to have 24 fiber-pairs
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Hiber partners with Inmarsat for satellite IoT network
Dutch IoT firm finds new partner after ditching plans for its own satellite network
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Deutsche Telekom taps Eutelsat to provide satellite broadband in remote areas of Germany
Busy month for the French satellite operator
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Cloudflare installs Edge on-ramp nodes in office basements
Says Office hardware will soon provide compute & storage, a week after it introduces R2 storage to rival AWS
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DCD Magazine out now - Life as a hyperscale data center contractor
As the workforce challenge intensifies, hear directly from contractors about what it's really like.
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US CSP Starry to go public via merger with FirstMark SPAC
Starry provides fixed wireless broadband, will be valued at $1.66 billion
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Hiber aborts plans to build IoT satellites network
Dutch IoT startup scraps plans for network of 24 satellites, will lease capacity from others instead
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Eutelsat invests an extra $165 million in OneWeb
Incumbent satellite operator takes second largest stake in LEO constellation provider
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Eutelsat declines takeover bid from Altice-founder Patrick Drahi
Telco mogul makes an unsolicited bid to take over satellite firm
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SoftBank acquires Project Loon patents from Alphabet
Company acquires 200 patents from now-defunct balloon project
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Spire Global and Space Chain announce blockchain in space partnership
Spire to put Space Chain software and hardware on some of its satellites
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Derailed train in Canada causes outage to Canadian satellite firm Viasat
Incident on terra firma reportedly cut space company’s primary and backup fiber lines
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SpaceX’s Starlink to exit Beta next month
Satellite constellation to achieve global coverage a year after Beta service launch
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I Squared Capital launches Exa Infrastructure after closing GTT acquisition
GTT spin-off launches as a standalone unit
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Alphabet's X tests Free Space Optical Communications in Congo, beams 700TB across 5km
Partnership with Liquid Intelligent Technologies comes out of failed Loon project
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NBN Co accused of mistreating subcontractors building Australia's national broadband network
Union claims that some subcontractors were offered drugs to complete work. They would prefer better pay
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KDDI Corp selects SpaceX’s Starlink for backhaul in remote Japan
Musk’s satellite company signs Japanese telco a week after OneWeb signs AT&T
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Australia arrests ship captain accused of damaging Vocus' ASC Cable
Accidental damage thought to be caused by wayward anchor
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OneWeb signs distribution agreements with Hughes and Peraton
LEO satellite company signs more agreements following AT&T announcement earlier this week
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OneWeb signs agreement with AT&T in the US
US telco to use OneWeb’s LEO satellites for customers and towers in ‘remote and challenging locations'
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Nokia links NorthC's Netherlands data centers with Region Connect Ring
SDN creates a single "virtual data center"
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CDN Alliance launches - with no actual members, as yet
But content delivery networks may need a voice to counter the perception that they keep breaking
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Hurricane Ida leads to AT&T and T-Mobile outages across Louisiana
Services returning as telcos deploy mobile cell towers
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South Korea's Lunar Orbiter to test delay-tolerant networking
The next step towards a true Interplanetary Internet
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DOE funds Argonne research to make a new quantum Internet protocol
Quantum networks need to interoperate just like today's Internet
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Argonne Labs to optimize 5G for scientific data
Better IoT systems could help beat wildfires
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SpaceX’s Starlink accounts for ‘half of all satellite near misses’
Elon Musk’s satellites coming within 1km of other companies’ machines around 500 times per week