Digamel signs an agreement with Fujikura for the distribution and official technical service for repair and maintenance of the brand's fusion splicers; this new activity will be carried out at Digamel's facilities in Madrid.

Televés Corporation will invest €23 million over the next four years to develop a project that will further its transformation into an Industry 4.0 environment. Corp4Future has the support of the Galician Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia), which has included the initiative in its incentive program for investments in the smart industry sector.

Nokia is playing a leading role in the Broadband Forum's effort to drive innovation in fixed access networks by spearheading the new BAA (Broadband Access Abstraction) project.

At the Sigfox World IoT Expo, Sigfox announced that its network now covers 36 countries, advancing its goal of providing a consistent level of connectivity quality and service across the globe.

Telia, in collaboration with Ericsson and Intel, has presented the first use cases of 5G networks in Europe at the EU Digital Summit, an event held in Tallinn, Estonia.

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Dell EMC to provide an application testing lab on Azure Stack for non-production virtual environments and limited scale.

At the Furukawa Summit 2017 held in Brazil, Furukawa Electric announced a $150 million investment over two years to expand its production of optical fibers and optical cables, primarily in the United States and Europe, through its subsidiary OFS.

5G networks will become mainstream by 2020, but Europe will lag behind Asia and the United States. The company's latest market report forecasts 5G capacity in South Korea by 2022, with only 7% in Europe.

Nokia and Telefónica have signed an agreement to evaluate technologies that enable an efficient network evolution toward 5G, in line with Telefónica's business objectives. Both companies will analyze how higher-performance 4G and 5G networks will lead to the creation of new and attractive services.

Airlines and airports expect to invest nearly $33 billion in information technology (IT) this year, according to the SITA 2017 Air Transport IT Trends Insights study published today. And they are focusing their technology investments on similar priorities.

Equinix, Inc. has reached an agreement with The Carlyle Group to acquire Itconic, a provider of Neutral Data Center, Connectivity and Cloud Infrastructure solutions in Spain and Portugal, and Cloudmas, Itconic's brand focused on enabling the adoption and use of Cloud services by companies.

Huawei successfully held the 5th eLTE Industry Alliance Summit under the theme "eLTE Practices Industrial Digital Transformation" at HUAWEI CONNECT 2017. Nearly 300 representatives from standardization organizations, governments, enterprises, and analysts—including more than 100 Alliance members—attended the event, which focused on the latest eLTE developments to advance the digital transformation of industry.

Seaborn Networks has announced that its Seabras-1 submarine cable is ready for use. The Seabras-1 cable is a 6-fiber, 72 Tbps submarine cable that is the first and only point-to-point system between São Paulo, Brazil, and New York, USA.  

Socionext Inc. and Advantech have announced a strategic alliance to provide live hardware transcoding solutions for data center support of MPEG2, AVC (H.264), and HEVC (H.265).

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) applauds the National Spectrum Agency (ANE), Colombia's spectrum regulatory agency, for publishing its final regulations for TV White Space (TWS). Colombia is now the first country in Latin America to finalize its TVWS regulations, giving the country a major boost in leveraging connectivity and promoting social and economic inclusion.

NetComm Wireless Limited and Openreach (an independently managed, wholly owned division of BT Group) have successfully completed the world's first demonstration of Gfast-based Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTdp), achieving Gigabit speeds using NetComm Wireless' reverse-fed Distribution Point Unit (DPU).

Angola Cables has taken another step toward the implementation of the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) with an official presentation in Sangano, Angola. The SACS system represents the first direct connection between Africa and South America.

The SFP-DD MSA (Multi-Source Agreement) Group has announced its intention to develop a specification for small form factor, double density (SFP-DD) high-speed pluggable interfaces.

Fusion Technologies Ltd. was founded in 2004 and distributes audiovisual products, working alongside a select group comprised of leading AV manufacturers.

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