Telefónica Deutschland, a Tier 1 operator in Germany, has selected the Infinera DRX series for its nationwide mobile transport network. The series is a disaggregated router family that combines a carrier-class white box portfolio with Infinera’s CNOS software. In the mobile segment, Telefónica Deutschland is responsible for over 45 million connections. With Infinera’s router series, the manufacturer says, Telefónica Deutschland ...

Mouser Electronics has announced a global distribution agreement with Clairitec, a designer and manufacturer of graphic display solutions. Based near Bordeaux, the company has provided operated globally for 20 years. Through the agreement, Mouser will stock Clairitec’s capacitive and resistive intelligent displays. Clairitec’s capacitive intelligent displays and resistive intelligent displays are electromagnetic compatibility-compliant display modules designed to add a touchscreen ...

Oracle has invested  $40 million for a 20% stake  in Ampere the Arm-based server chip designer .  The CEO of Ampere is the 28-year Intel veteran Renee James who sits on the Oracle board. Last April it was announced Arm had invested an undisclosed amount in Ampere. Ampere’s technology derives from the Arm-based server processors  of Applied Micro Circuit Corp ...

Bulgin has launched a LC duplex fiber optic connector specialised for use in harsh environments. The connector contains an additional optical fiber connection for applications where separate transmit and receive cables are required. In comparison to a simplex optical fiber cable and connector, the additional glass fiber on the duplex cable can also be used as a built-in obsolescence in mission-critical ...

Microchip is offering high security IoT authentication to companies with no prior security knowledge, that are producing as few as 10 units. Authentication, in this case, is proving the identity of a device attempting to connect across a network using asymmetric cryptography. Called ‘Trust Platform’, this is a ‘pre-provisioned’ hardware-based secure key storage system, which also offers solutions for mid and ...

Only Connect on Fischer entering the 360 degree mating market by offering the Freedom Series. The Fischer LP360TM, for example, is a signal and power connector with 360° mating freedom.

The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s Research Enterprise in Singapore, have developed a commercially viable way to integrate III-V devices into silicon ICs. “By integrating III-V into silicon, we can build upon existing manufacturing capabilities and low-cost volume production techniques of silicon and include the unique optical and electronic functionality of III-V technology,” said Eugene Fitzgerald, CEO ...

The consistent use of direct current in a data center makes sense, writes SCHURTER. Losses can be massively reduced. On the power side, the IEC has defined the frame with TS 62735-1. Now it is the turn of the device side. AC and DC are supposed to coexist in a transition phase.   SCHURTER GP21: first commercially available cord plug ...

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia have come up with a new concept to increase the energy density of aluminium batteries which is currently half that of  lithium-ion batteries. Previous designs for aluminium batteries have used the aluminium as the anode (the negative electrode) – and graphite as the cathode (the positive ...

After ten years of making losses, Globalfoundries intends to IPO in 2022, says CEO Tom Caulfield. GloFo has been selling off bits all year. Vanguard Bought GloFo’s Fab 3E in Singapore in January, ON Semi bought the East Fishkill fab, the mask-making unit was sold to Toppan, and the ASIC operation was sold to Marvell. Last year the big news ...