ONF and Deutsche Telekom Demonstrate Fully Disaggregated Open RAN with Open RIC Platform - ONF SD-RAN Berlin 4G/5G Trial integrates ONF SD-RAN’s RIC and eight participating vendors’ products for ongoing outdoor field trialMENLO PARK, Calif. & BERLIN, Germany October 12, 2021 -- Today, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced the launch of the SD-RAN Berlin Trial, the first field trial implementing fully disaggregated open RAN solutions using ONF’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) software platform as defined by the O-RAN architecture. This 4G and 5G Standalone (SA) outdoor trial is live at Deutsche Telekom in Berlin, Germany.Carriers [...]

To Cool Datacenter Servers, Microsoft Turns to Boiling Liquid - Microsoft “We are the first cloud provider that is running two-phase immersion cooling in a production environment,” said Husam Alissa, a principal hardware engineer on Microsoft’s team for datacenter advanced development in Redmond, Washington. “Air cooling is not enough,” said Christian Belady, distinguished engineer and vice president of Microsoft’s datacenter advanced development group in Redmond. “That’s what’s driving us to immersion cooling, where we can directly boil off the surfaces of the chip.” Microsoft investigated liquid immersion as a cooling solution for high-performance computing applications such [...]

Wiwwyn Products are Tested and Verified for Aether Edge Site Deployments In this latest Aether blog post “Aether – Rapidly Deploying New Edge Sites Around the World”, Wiwynn is mentioned tested and verified for Aether edge site deployments. Deep dive to learn how Aether acts as a catalyst for accelerating smart enterprise digital transformation with open source, software-defined cellular connectivity and tightly integrated cloud-native edge compute on COTS hardware: https://opennetworking.org/news-and-events/blog/aether-rapidly-deploying-new-edge-sites-around-the-world/ Aether – Rapidly Deploying New Edge Sites Around the World - MAR 11, 2021 It is [...]

Improve supply chain resiliency, traceability, and predictability with blockchain Introduction “Many new technologies have transformed the supply chain industry over the years; however, persistent problems remained, such as lack of traceability, especially for raw materials, and a lack of trust in data across parties. Our team has applied a new blockchain-based solution to solve these and many other supply chain challenges across our cloud hardware supply chain. I am excited about what this new technology is already achieving, and even more excited about what it can achieve in the near future: delivering mine-to-datacenter traceability [...]

Wiwynn is excited to use EP100 to join the 2nd Global O-RAN Plugfest in the Deutsche Telekom lab Testing and integration are crucial for developing a commercially available open RAN ecosystem. Wiwynn is excited to use EP100 to join the 2nd Global O-RAN Plugfest in the Deutsche Telekom lab! Efforts are to provide a scalable, flexible, and agile infrastructure to expedite 5G NW expansion. Read more: https://wiwynn.link/q5z

ONF Launches Continuous Certification Program MENLO PARK, Calif. – May 12, 2020 – The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today announced its new Continuous Certification Program, enabling supply chain vendors to embed their products for ongoing test and compliance certification with ONF’s open source software projects. Additionally, the Open Compute Project (OCP) is collaborating with ONF in this new program to promote the use of OCP-recognized open hardware in ONF solutions. Together, this collaboration will make clear for end users how best to assemble world-class solutions leveraging both open hardware and open software components, thus driving wider adoption of comprehensive [...]

Microsoft Recognizes Outstanding Contributions by Suppliers Wiwynn is a component developer and system integrator of cloud servers for Microsoft, which has partnered with Microsoft on strategic initiatives and consistently delivered a high level of support. Wiwynn development support has been valuable in helping Microsoft achieve time-to-market on new technologies and is very supportive of Microsoft supply-chain initiatives. Wiwynn was instrumental in ensuring that Microsoft was not affected by 2018 industrywide component shortages through proactive implementation of a strategic buy process to ensure on-time delivery of Microsoft servers. Wiwynn has made significant investments to proactively mitigate risks by opening a new factory [...]

Broadcom Announces Industry’s First Complete Portfolio of OCP NIC 3.0 Adapters for Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure OCP NIC 3.0 adapter solutions allow the industry to easily build high-performance server systems and effectively scale network capacity to meet the demands of high bandwidth applications such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), network function virtualization (NFV), and all flash arrays (AFA). “Wiwynn is pleased to work with our long-term partner—Broadcom to develop the new OCP NIC 3.0 solutions to enable high performance Ethernet connectivity in next-generation data centers,” said Steven Lu, vice president of product management at Wiwynn. “Broadcom [...]