NEWS
Infovista hits new
milestone for DSS
testing for 5G
deployment
nfovista, a leader in modern
I network performance, has
announced it has shipped its
1,000th upgrade for its TEMS investigation
platform to allow operators to test
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS). This
innovative technology lets operators take
advantage of existing 4G infrastructure
to deliver initial 5G capabilities, without
compromising the performance of
existing customers.
DSS was made available as part of
3GPP Release 15 in April 2019 and is
now supported by leading infrastructure
providers including Ericsson, Nokia,
Huawei and ZTE through a software
upgrade. With DSS, operators can allocate
portions of the 4G LTE spectrum that they
are already using to 5G NR, allowing users
to coexist in the same frequency band/
channel at the same time. Last month, the
first wave of handsets with new Qualcomm
X55 5G modem and Exynos 990 chipsets
supporting DSS arrived in the market –
further fuelling interest from operators.
“DSS offers a simple way for mobile
service providers to bring new 5G users
on board gradually to match their adoption
models, while continuing to support legacy
4G customers,” said Jose Duarte, CEO
for Infovista. “In the past, when operators
wanted to upgrade to a new technology,
they would have to do Spectrum Refarming,
moving old users off a part of the
spectrum and reserving the block for new
users, even if they were limited in number.
DSS instead offers an easier transition but
there is still a need for testing to ensure
the process is seamless.”
Kingston Technology ships
7.68TB capacity for industryleading
data centre SSDs
ingston Digital, the
K flash memory affiliate
of Kingston Technology
Company, a world leader in
memory products and technology
solutions, has started shipping
the 7.68TB model of the Data
Centre 500R (DC500R) and
450R (DC450R) SATA SSDs. The
DC1000M 7.68TB U.2 NVMe
ships in June. The SSDs provide
additional storage and implement
strict QoS ensuring predictable IO
and low latency for data centres
using both NVMe and/or SATA.
The three SSDs join the DC1000B
NVMe boot drive, DC500M (for
mixed workloads) SATA SSD and
Server Premier DRAM to form the
most complete range of superior
enterprise-class data centre
storage solutions in the market.
“Higher capacity options for data
centres enables organisations
to increase storage space in
their current footprint as cloud
computing continues to grow at
unprecedented levels,” said Tony
Hollingsbee, SSD Business Manager,
Kingston EMEA. “Our evolving line of
data centre storage solutions serve
enterprise customers of all levels from
hyperscalers and on down and are a
key component for organisations to
keep the total cost of ownership down.”
Kingston’s 7.68TB data centre SSDs
include: DC500R: VMware Ready
SSD engineered for read-intensive
applications such as webservers,
virtual desktop infrastructure,
operational databases and real
time analytics; DC450R: Specific,
focused feature set for read-intensive
applications and optimised for data
centres looking to not overspend
on more expensive write-intensive
SSDs; DC1000M: Hot-pluggable U.2
(2.5”) form factor, allowing seamless
integration with latest generation
servers and storage arrays currently
using PCIe and U.2 backplanes.
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