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Blue Origin has announced a new space-based communications network called TeraWave, designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second. The system is purpose-built for enterprise, data center, and government users. The network architecture relies on 5,408 satellites distributed across both low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), the company said in a statement.…

In sporting venues, airports and other high-volume retail sites, no one wants to wait in long queues. Customers, fans and patrons don’t want to miss the sporting action or be late getting to their gates. Over the last few years, Amazon has rolled out its Just Walk Out (JWO) technology to third-party locations across the country. JWO makes “grab and go” a literal term: Tap a credit card, enter a k…

If IT groups are to be the strategic business partners their companies need, they require solutions that can improve infrastructure life cycle management in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and heightened security threats. To quantify the value of such solutions, Cisco recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ analysis of Cisco Intersight . The comprehe…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and also crosses into vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and manufac…

SoftBank has launched Infrinia AI Cloud OS, a software stack for operating AI data centers that automates infrastructure management and provides inference services for large language models. The software handles tasks from BIOS configuration to Kubernetes management on GPU platforms, including Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72. “By deploying Infrinia AI Cloud OS, AI data center operators can build Kubernetes …

OpenAI is moving to blunt one of the fastest-growing constraints on large-scale AI deployment by pledging to fund power generation and transmission for its massive Stargate data center buildout. The move signals a shift in how access to electricity influences data center planning. Facilities built to support large-scale AI models require sharply higher levels of power than traditional enterprise …

Cisco has expanded the options for customers looking to build AI clusters by adding support for Intel Gaudi 3 servers to its Nexus switch offering. Specifically, Cisco said its 2U, Nexus 9364E-SG2 switches and OSFP-800G-DR8 transceivers are certified to support Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators in scale-out, high-performance configurations targeting LLM training, inference, and generative AI workload…

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…

The memory industry is notorious for feasts and famines, but this shortage is particularly bad , but why ? The memory industry faced shortage issues in the past but those were partially due to the changing of memory format. When the industry went from an old style of memory like DDR4 to DDR5, the change was rather abrupt and nowhere near as smooth as the migration to a new generation of CPUs or G…

At large enterprises with thousands of network devices supporting global operations, network automation is no longer optional. Early automation efforts at Intel were born out of necessity. A small team at the multinational semiconductor company relied on screen scraping and scripts to keep the network running, but by 2019, that approach had reached its limits. The introduction of a new network pl…

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

There’s a lot of talk about the AI surge being a bubble that’s about to burst. But looking at the thinking behind recent compute infrastructure investments, rising AI demand and the rapid adoption of compute-hungry AI use cases paints a different picture of where AI is headed in 2026. The past six months alone have yielded a flood of announcements from both Big Tech companies and public organizat…

RISC-V pioneer SiFive has signed a deal with Nvidia to incorporate Nvidia NVLink Fusion into its data center products. The agreement means that SiFive will be able to connect its RISC-V CPUs to Nvidia GPUs and accelerators over a high bandwidth interconnect that lets multiple GPUs share compute and memory resources, offering more options to operators of AI data centers. Historically, RISC-V techn…

Network and security teams managing enterprise applications face two emerging challenges: AI security and multi-cloud operations. F5 is addressing both with product announcements that extend its Application Delivery and Security Platform into AI runtime protection and multicloud managed services. The company announced F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team on January 14, following the January 13 lau…

Amazon Web Services launched a new independent cloud service aiming to address European customer concerns around digital sovereignty last week. But while analysts believe it will help European customers meet regulatory compliance demands, there are questions around how much sovereignty it provides in practice. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud data center is located in Brandenburg, Germany, with p…