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Zawya
7 days ago
- Business
- Zawya
Ciena accelerates sustainable network transformation in line with UAE and Saudi Arabia's green ambitions
Dubai/Riyadh – Amid a surge in AI applications and network traffic, Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN), the global leader in high-speed connectivity, is driving sustainable innovation, circular practices, and efficiencies across its supply chain and operations, supporting the demand for high-performing, low-carbon networks in the Middle East and helping the region's Net Zero targets and Vision 2030 goals. Ciena's latest Sustainability Report spotlights innovations enabling network operators to reduce energy, waste, and material use while meeting increasing network capacity and performance needs. By focusing on these core areas, Ciena is driving meaningful progress and contributing to global and regional efforts to combat climate change. 'Leading hyperscale and cloud providers have made significant investments to launch data centers in Saudi Arabia to securely store content, run workloads and offer higher speeds for customers. This year alone, over $10 billion has been pledged for data center build outs in the country,' said James Crawshaw, practice leader, Omdia. Both the UAE and KSA have been accelerating their ambitions to become regional data centre powerhouses. Meanwhile, other local data centers in Ajman and Abu Dhabi will support burgeoning AI workloads. These developments require the network to scale sustainably to meet the needs of AI data center hubs. 'Ciena is at the forefront of creating modern architectures and implementing network optimizations to ensure our customers can maintain peak capacity and support evolving connectivity needs,' said Virginie Hollebecque, Vice President and Leader of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Ciena. 'As both the UAE and KSA accelerate their sustainability ambitions in line with global standards, Ciena is committed to meeting capacity demands while minimizing environmental impact. We are working with network operators to optimize optical network infrastructure and strategically support the evolution of AI data center hubs.' Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme reduces power consumption per bit by 54%, enabling operators to scale sustainably. Earlier this year, e& UAE, deployed WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) on its optical network, boosting the network with ultra-high speed 400G client infrastructure connectivity, and supporting 10 Gb home services and wholesale and domestic business customer traffic with 100G and 400G requirements. Through Ciena's Adaptive Network vision, with programmable infrastructure and real-time telemetry data, advanced analytics, and AI, the network can constantly learn and improve efficiency, driving greater sustainability. Furthermore, its Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio and Navigator Network Control Suite deliver actionable insights, harnessing this real-time streaming telemetry data through open, industry-standard APIs. In addition to working with network operators to transform and scale their networks to optimize capacity and efficiency while reducing energy, Ciena supports circular practices. It is increasing the use of recycled plastics and using halogen-free printed circuit boards in its product design to reduce environmental impact. Its redesigned packaging now uses a minimum of 70% recycled content and to reduce emissions from both material use and shipping. About Ciena Ciena is the global leader in high-speed connectivity. We build the world's most adaptive networks to support exponential growth in bandwidth demand. By harnessing the power of our networking systems, components, automation software, and services, Ciena revolutionizes data transmission and network management. With unparalleled expertise and innovation, we empower our customers, partners, and communities to thrive in the AI era. Note to Ciena Investors You are encouraged to review the Investors section of our website, where we routinely post press releases, SEC filings, recent news, financial results, and other announcements. From time to time, we exclusively post material information to this website along with other disclosure channels that we use. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations, forecasts, information, and assumptions. These statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those stated or implied, because of risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in our most recent annual and quarterly reports filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies and can be identified by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Reuters
22-07-2025
- Business
- Reuters
What Happens When Chips Outpace the Networks That Feed Them?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 22, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- In the past few years, semiconductor technology has advanced rapidly — so much that Nvidia recently became the world's first $4 trillion company, opens new tab, thanks to the huge demand for AI chips. Today's top GPUs and AI accelerators can process massive amounts of data incredibly fast. But this brings up an important question: Can our networks keep up and deliver data quickly enough to keep these powerful chips working at full speed? In many cases, the answer is no. A growing performance gap means high-end processors often sit idle, starving for data, while relatively sluggish networks struggle to keep up. Bridging this gap will require new strategies — from intelligent proxy servers to massive infrastructure upgrades — to ensure the AI revolution isn't bottlenecked by bandwidth and latency. , opens new tabProxy Servers Step In to Balance Load and Manage AI-Era Latency When real-time AI applications demand instant responses, clever use of proxy server, opens new tab platforms and gateways has become essential. Unlike a basic intermediary, modern AI proxies do far more than pass along traffic. They perform smart routing, load balancing, and caching to optimize data flow between users, devices, GPU clusters, and cloud APIs. For instance, an AI gateway can direct your request to the least busy or closest server, manage timeouts and retries, and monitor performance — all in the blink of an eye. By pushing computation to the edge of the network, self-driving cars can avoid round-trip delays to distant data centers — the goal is to eliminate every unnecessary nanosecond from vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Services like Webshare, opens new tab make this architecture easier to deploy by offering scalable proxy infrastructure with configurable bandwidth, rotation, and geolocation. Instead of creating a proxy system from the ground up, teams can quickly tap into a large pool of IP addresses designed for tasks like AI inference, data collection, or edge delivery. Let's talk about another aspect. Semantic caching of LLM (large language model) responses can transform response times from seconds to milliseconds. In other words, answers that once took a few seconds on a busy model could be delivered near-instantly from a proxy's cache. Similarly, content delivery networks (CDNs) function as proxy layers across the globe, bringing data physically closer to users to speed up streaming and video AI processing. And when fresh computation is needed, proxies help balance the load. They distribute incoming requests across fleets of GPUs so no single server gets swamped, preventing slowdowns. , opens new tabCompute Power Meets Network Limits: A Growing Bottleneck Despite these optimizations, the broader problem remains — today's chips are outrunning the networks that feed them. We see it clearly in advanced AI training, which often spreads one job across hundreds of GPUs in parallel. Those GPUs need to swap results continuously over the network to synchronize with each other. If the interconnect is too slow, the GPUs end up idle, twiddling their thumbs as they wait for data. 'Job completion time is determined by how quickly GPUs can turn out results and how quickly the network can synchronize those results,' the source explains, opens new tab. Improving network throughput and latency can thus unlock hidden performance. In fact, even small upgrades to network infrastructure can 'bring up [GPU utilization] rate' and yield 'millions of dollars in savings' by avoiding wasted idle time. Looking further ahead, entirely new network paradigms are emerging to keep pace with Moore's Law. One promising route is optical interconnects. Today's server racks still rely on copper wires, but electrical signaling is nearing its limits for high bandwidth over distance. Companies like Ayar Labs are pioneering in-package photonics to beam data as light. Their optical chiplets can blast terabits of data per second between chips with dramatically lower latency and power draw than copper traces. As the professionals put it, opens new tab, the conventional electrical architecture is 'rapidly approaching the end of its roadmap,' and future chip-to-chip links will require photonics. By converting electronic signals to light right at the source, these optical networks could prevent tomorrow's ultrafast CPUs and AI accelerators from being starved for data. In summary, a multi-pronged effort — faster switch silicon, smarter network cards, and even lasers in our chips — is underway to close the gap between what our chips can chew through and what our networks can supply. As chips get faster and more powerful, our networks are struggling to keep up. But progress is being made. New technologies, as we see these days, are helping close the gap between computing and data delivery. The fact that companies put all the effort into improving not only the hardware which are chips but also the way data is transferred, talks about their dedication to avoid slowdowns and make sure AI reaches its full potential. That means delivering real-time, smart performance everywhere — from data centers to self-driving cars. In the end, success will go to those who build not just the fastest processors, but also the fastest systems to connect them. Media Contact Joris Leitonasjoris@ ### SOURCE: Webshare Copyright 2025 EZ Newswire See release on EZ Newswire
Forbes
18-07-2025
- Forbes
iOS 26—Apple's iPhone Upgrade May Be Bad News For Google
Apple's iOS 26 could be bad news for Google. 'Any news when it may be safe to text iPhone to Android?' one Forbes reader emailed me this week. The FBI and other agencies warned users to stop texting between the two, as messages are not fully encrypted despite promises it's coming with a new RCS. It was last December that Salt Typhoon was outed marauding through U.S. networks, prompting the bureau's warning to stop texting. That came just a couple of months after Apple finally relented and added RCS to iMessage. Its limited implementation was bad news for Google at the time, and iOS 26 may be more of the same. RCS is not encrypted. Google has added its own security layer across its Messages platform, but RCS messages between iPhones and Androids were less secure than iMessages or Google Messages when iOS 18 launched, and that has not changed. The iPhone-masker seemed ambivalent about when that might be fixed. It could have been an easy interface for Apple and Google to release, but instead Apple said it would wait for the protocol itself to be upgraded, industry-wide. Back in March, GSMA, the mobile standards setter, announced a new RCS protocol with full end-to-end encryption. Apple and Google confirmed this would be added to their respective platforms. Problem solved? Maybe — but maybe not. It was assumed that Apple would launch this with iOS 26 — what was still referred to as iOS 19 at the time. But three betas in, there's no sign of this yet, even as Google openly experiments with the new RCS encryption on its own Messages platform. Per MacRumors, 'in March, Apple said that it planned to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app,' but 'as of the third developer beta of iOS 26 released this week, the upgrade has yet to be implemented on iPhones.' While wccftech says 'Apple continues to delay end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging, leaving chats exposed to third parties, and undermining users' privacy expectations, as iOS 26 Beta 3 fails to deliver the promised protection.' Apple was late to the RCS party, with speculation that its eventual u-turn was triggered by U.S., European or even Chinese regulatory pressure. Even now, RCS is an add-on to iMessage which uses its own security architecture, not a full integration. As such, the shift to full encryption matters less to Apple than to Google, which is all in on RCS and even took control of the global rollout across its Android ecosystem, rather than rely on the patchwork quilt of mobile networks to run a slower process. RCS came late to iOS 18, with the public beta giving the first real updates and the same may be the case here as well. But even Google seems to have more work to do before a worldwide generally available rollout or the new RCS protocol is feasible. iOS 26 was seen as a milestone for encrypted RCS, killing the texting security warnings once and for all. But thus far that is not looking likely, at least not on release. And that's bad news for Google, which remains the primary drive of this new messaging standard. And it's bad news for users in a world where Malwarebytes warns of an 'alarming 692% spike in SMS-based malware.' A surge 'that we can't just chalk up to coincidence,' coming as 'widespread campaigns like toll fee scams' continue to surge.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
SolidRun and Amarisoft Break New Ground with Full 5G Base Stations on Embedded x86 Platform
Compact, carrier-grade solution powered by SolidRun's AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000 CoM and HoneyComb platform delivers new level of performance and flexibility for edge, private, and tactical 5G networks TEL AVIV, Israel, July 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SolidRun, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance System on Module (SOM) solutions, Single Board Computers (SBC) and network edge solutions, today announced a major milestone in collaboration with Amarisoft, a pioneer in software-defined wireless network technologies. The companies have successfully validated a fully functional 4G/5G base station featuring both gNB and 5GC, on SolidRun's compact Ryzen Embedded V3000 COM Express Type 7 module deployed on SolidRun's HoneyComb Ryzen V3000 carrier board. This achievement demonstrates that high-performance 5G infrastructure no longer requires bulky, power-hungry servers. Instead, SolidRun and Amarisoft have proven that a carrier-grade base station can now be delivered in a compact, power-efficient system without compromising on features or performance. The validated solution supports 100MHz bandwidth with 4T4R MIMO and runs a complete virtualized 4G/5G software stack from Amarisoft, without the need for external accelerators, FPGAs, or GPUs. "Running the full Amarisoft 5G stack on our AMD Ryzen V3000 equipped COM proves that compact x86 systems can now meet the demanding needs of modern 5G networks," said Dr. Atai Ziv, CEO at SolidRun. "It's a significant step toward making carrier-grade base station solutions more deployable at the edge, more cost-effective for OEMs, and more accessible for private and tactical network operators." The combined solution is optimized for private networks, tactical defense communications, broadcast uplinks, and edge telecom deployments, as well as testbeds and network R&D. Its small footprint and low power consumption enable integrators to deploy 4G/5G infrastructure in places where space and power constraints previously made traditional server-based systems impractical. "Validating our complete 4G/5G stack on SolidRun's AMD-powered embedded platform showcases a powerful path forward—delivering high-performance, deployable telecom systems without sacrificing energy efficiency," said Neda Nikaein, VP of Product and Operations at Amarisoft. "We see this as an important building block for future private network deployments, tactical systems, and 5G test environments that demand flexibility in form factor and performance." The AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000 processor at the heart of the solution offers up to 8 cores and 16 threads of x86 processing power, along with enterprise-grade I/O and power efficiency, making it ideal for embedded telecom workloads. "This collaboration reflects the growing role AMD's embedded platforms play in the future of network infrastructure," said David Burns, Senior Director of Embedded Solutions at AMD. "Seeing the Ryzen Embedded V3000 power a full 5G base station highlights how AMD is helping drive compact, high-performance solutions across edge, private, and next-gen telecom markets." This announcement comes just after the AMD Adaptive & Embedded Computing Tech Day in Bengaluru, where SolidRun showcased the platform and its role in enabling modern, modular, and efficient 5G network infrastructure. For more information about SolidRun and its embedded platforms, visit To learn more about Amarisoft's virtualized wireless solutions, visit Please access the press kit here. About SolidRun SolidRun is a global leading developer of embedded systems and network solutions, focused on a wide range of energy-efficient, powerful, and flexible products. Our innovative compact embedded solutions are based on Arm and x86 architecture and offer a variety of platforms including SOMs (System-on-Module), SBCs (Single Board Computer) and industrial mini-PCs. SolidRun offers a one-stop-shop for developers and OEMs, providing a complete service from hardware customization to software support and even product branding and enclosure design. With a mission to simplify application development while overcoming deployment challenges, SolidRun proudly provides customers faster time-to-market and lower costs. About Amarisoft Founded in 2012 by Fabrice BELLARD and Franck SPINELLI, Amarisoft ( is a disruptive software company dedicated to Telecom industry. We are delighted to bring affordable and high-quality solutions to the 4G/5G community to unleash creativity and ultimately expand communications among people. Accessible technology is the foundation of Amarisoft success stories. The company goal is to develop a technology that significantly improves the life of as many people as possible no matter where they are located. We are working on helping companies of all sizes to become players in mobile networks of existing and next generations. Media Contacts:Michael FarinoNew Era Communicationsmichael@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE SolidRun Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Yahoo
Mobile phone emergency alert system to be tested in early September
Mobile phones will ring out with an alarm this September as the Government tests its emergency alert system. The emergency alert system will be tested at around 3pm on September 7, in its second ever nationwide drill. The first time the system was tested was in April 2023, but some mobile phone users warned their devices did not sound, with the problem traced to specific networks.
