Internet connectivity price drop to benefit research & education in South Caucasus through EaPConnect

4 November 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands Students, researchers and academics in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will be better able to collaborate internationally thanks to improved Internet connectivity with more competitive market prices, achieved in the EU-funded EaPConnect project. Prices for Internet connectivity for research and education communities in South Caucasus countries have dropped by more than 80% since the project first tendered in 2016. Procurement activities by EaPConnect, led by GÉANT, have helped to achieve this reduction. The money saved by the EaPConnect partners in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia can now…

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ECOC Exhibition sets its sights on Brussels 2020 for 25th anniversary event

ECOC Exhibition will return to the city of the inaugural event following this year’s successful Dublin show Brussels, Belgium, 04 November 2019 – European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) Exhibition has confirmed the location of its 25th Anniversary exhibition, which will take place in Brussels, Belgium, the site of Europe’s largest optical connections event’s inaugural exhibition. ECOC has already started taking bookings for the landmark event next year, with both Ciena and Corning confirming booth space following the 2019 ECOC Exhibition in Dublin, Ireland. The event welcomed 6,569 attendees and…

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UltraSoC furthers academic support with Europractice partnership

UltraSoC IP enables academic institutions to develop full RISC-V ASICs CAMBRIDGE, UK – 4 November 2019 UltraSoC has announced a partnership with Europractice, to bring UltraSoC debug and trace IP for open source RISC-V development to a wider community and to make the company’s IP more readily and freely available for academic ASIC development. This move furthers UltraSoC’s growing support for education, particularly via the rapidly growing RISC-V open source architecture, which makes it possible for academic institutions to develop low cost solutions using open resources. Europractice is a European…

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Infinet Wireless negotiates expansion in African market at the Russia-Africa Economic Forum and Summit 2019

Multiple meetings with heads of state and business leaders were held at the event Sochi, Russia, 04 November, 2019 – Infinet Wireless, a global leader in the design and manufacture of fixed broadband wireless systems, has announced it has made a number of new landmark implementation agreements across the African market, including a project with Camtel, the leading telecom operator in Cameroon, to modernize and expand broadband infrastructure across the country. At the Russia-Africa Economic Forum and Summit, Infinet CEO Dmitry Okorokov and Technical Support Engineer Ludovic Takam, of Cameroon,…

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