NEWS
Leading hosting
and cloud
services provider,
Leaseweb Global,
adds to its fleet
leading hosting and cloud
services provider has added its
most powerful hosted piece of
infrastructure yet to its offering.
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Worldwide IaaS Provider, Leaseweb
Global, has announced the availability of
its 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processor powered
servers to the Leaseweb server fleet. The
announcement officially marks Leaseweb
as one of the first managed service
providers to offer global access to this
new processor. The processors currently
hold more than 140 world records and
offer up to a 2x generational performance
increase. The 2nd Gen EPYC processors
support up to 64 ‘Zen 2’ cores and 128
threads per socket, support PCIe 4 and
include advanced security features to help
protect data and systems.
As Leaseweb’s newest, most powerful
hosted piece of infrastructure, the 2nd
Gen AMD EPYC Processor based servers
will play a key role in meeting market
demands for scalable, efficient and easy-
to-operate hybrid cloud infrastructure.
This is critical to delivering on current
and future market demands. Leaseweb’s
research reveals that 61.4% of companies
believe that hybrid or private cloud will
be the infrastructure of their company’s
future, while 75.9% of respondents
prioritised scalability, speed, ease of use
and cost as top factors when choosing
their IaaS hosting solution. Leaseweb’s
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processor servers are
housed in state-of-the-art, ISO-certified
data centres at strategic locations across
the globe – giving customers easy access
to Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.
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Issue 14
Nokia and Irish Aviation
Authority deploy next-gen
network for North Atlantic
okia has announced
successful deployment
of the Irish Aviation
Authority’s (IAA) next-generation
air traffic control network at its
new West Ireland disaster recovery
centre. As part of the deal, Nokia
supplied its IP/MPLS networking
products, which have been
specifically designed for this level of
mission-critical application.
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The new, high-bandwidth IP/MPLS
network will increase capacity and
ensure smooth operation of new,
more demanding air traffic control
(ATC) applications. It will also
provide support for legacy, non-IP
applications, including end-to-end
communications between radar
stations. The IAA also benefitted
from Nokia’s professional services
offering for network design,
architecture, integration and
deployment. Following successful
deployment of the network,
Nokia will continue to provide
IAA with long-term support and
maintenance services.
The network was deployed in early
2019 and is currently in service. It has
successfully carried out a number of
live trials across multiple airspace
sectors in the key North Atlantic region,
delivering critical voice and radar
services to controllers over the new
Nokia IP/MPLS platform.
The successful deployment of the
network precedes the expected
doubling of global air traffic by 2030.
The North Atlantic airspace is one of
the most crowded airspaces in the
world and the IAA will need more
capacity as traffic grows. Modern ATC
management applications can scale
to meet the demand but require a
different kind of network connectivity
based on IP, such as Nokia’s IP/MPLS.
Nokia has a long history building
mission-critical networks for critical
infrastructure such as air traffic control.
Its IP/MPLS networking products are
designed from the start to support
legacy applications, as well as the latest
capabilities for high-availability, mission-
critical connectivity.
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