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• Vast Data and Supermicro partner to simplify and accelerate AI pipelines
  in Company news
  By Vast Data

  COMPANY NEWS: Vast Data, the AI data platform company, and Supermicro, a total IT solution manufacturer for AI, cloud, storage, and 5G/edge, today announced a new collaboration to deliver a full-stack, end-to-end AI solution aimed at simplifying the creation and expansion of large-scale AI deployments.

  Through this collaboration, Vast Data and Supermicro are offering service providers, hyperscale technology companies and large, data-centric enterprises with a highly performant and resilient AI solution powered by Nvidia-certified systems.

  The solution offers service providers and enterprises multi-tenancy, zero-trust security and scalability, making it invaluable for organisations dealing with large volumes of proprietary data and requiring agility in their operations. With the Vast Data Platform, organisations can now automatically store and apply context to unstructured data, accelerate data analytics with a new approach to transactional and analytical data warehousing, and eliminate data silos with a unified global namespace from edge-to-cloud. Additionally, the Vast Data Platform resolves the long-standing compromise between performance and capacity, ensuring unified access to all data.

  “In an era where organisations globally are launching and scaling their AI initiatives at a blistering pace, staying competitive requires them to work with infrastructure providers who are proven at hyperscale,” said Vast Data CEO and co-founder Renen Hallak. “Collaborating with Supermicro, we're delivering a unified hyperscale data platform that will make it easier for service providers and enterprises to be competitive in the AI race. With a revolutionary parallel architecture that is built with enterprise data management tools for unstructured and structured data, this joint solution is the ideal platform for the modern era of AI computing.”

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  Together, Vast Data and Supermicro are providing organisations with unique capabilities critical to ensuring AI success:

  • Limitless scale and high GPU utilisation: The solution has broken the trade-off between scale and uptime. Organisations can scale Vast + Supermicro clusters to exabyte levels while enjoying over 99.9999% uptime (a unique combination)
  • A linearly-scalable parallel architecture: The Vast DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) architecture is the world’s first truly parallel system architecture, which makes it possible to feed the world’s largest GPU clusters.
  • Unified support for data prep and data training: Vast uniquely combines a file and object storage system with a high-performance transactional database management system. This pairing makes it possible for customers to drive innovative feature engineering using Apache Spark accelerated by the Vast DataBase, while also feeding large training and inference workloads using the Vast DataStore.
  • Edge to cloud data access: Vast’s global namespace eradicates data silos, achieving instant data availability and strict write consistency across locations, while preserving the performance of local systems by pioneering new methods of edge caching and decentralised lock management.

  “Supermicro is excited to collaborate with Vast Data to deploy their Vast Data Platform,” said Supermicro president and CEO Charles Liang. “Leveraging Supermicro's Nvidia-certified Systems portfolio with Vast Data's software platform combines the compute and data functions into a Supermicro platform that’s ideal for large-scale AI deployments, enabling significant deep learning performance.”

  Supermicro + Vast Data
  Supermicro offers one of the broadest selections of Nvidia-certified systems. Each is compatible with Nvidia AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform for accelerating data science pipelines and streamlining the development and deployment of production-grade AI applications, including generative AI. The systems provide performance and efficiency to organisations ranging from small enterprises to those deploying massive AI training clusters, digital twins and distributed inference solutions. With NVIDIA accelerated computing and networking, Supermicro’s Nvidia-certified Systems deliver up to nine times the training performance of the previous generation for some of the most challenging AI models, cutting days or weeks of training time to hours.

  Designed for cloud service providers and enterprises, the Vast Data Platform serves as the comprehensive software infrastructure for data-intensive computing, able to capture, catalogue, refine, enrich, and preserve data through real-time data analysis and deep learning.

  To learn more, join Vast Data at Nvidia GTC, a global AI developer conference running 18-21 March in San Jose, California, at Booth #1424, and be sure to tune in to the AI Showcase starting at 11am PT, featuring presentations from Vast, Supermicro, Nvidia and Run:ai.

  Availability
  Customers can now buy a fully optimised Vast Data Platform AI solution stack directly from Supermicro or select distribution channels. Visit the Supermicro webpage or contact your systems integrator to learn more.

  About Vast Data
  Vast Data is the data platform company built for the AI era. As the new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure, organisations trust the Vast Data Platform to serve their most data-intensive computing needs. Vast Data empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data by providing AI infrastructure that is simple, scalable, and architected from the ground up to power deep learning and GPU-accelerated data centers and clouds. Launched in 2019, Vast Data is the fastest growing data infrastructure company in history. For more information, please visit https://vastdata.com and follow Vast Data on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

• Optus gears up for stronger 5G penetration indoors
  in 5G
  By Kenn Anthony Mendoza

  Telecommunications company Optus announced it has tested wideband multi-operator Ericsson Radio Dot System to provide 5G connectivity indoors for Australian enterprises.

  Optus said customers will receive the same indoor mobile phone coverage with the same quality.

  Following the trial at Optus Lab in Sydney, Optus plans to deploy the multi-operator Ericsson Radio Dot System at sporting venues, multi-story buildings, and shopping precincts across Australia.

  It will also be used as a 5G capacity overlay in locations where Optus has already deployed legacy solutions like shopping centre, food courts, airport lounge rooms, or stadium corporate rooms and will enable new immersive technologies such as XR and VR.

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  The Ericsson Radio Dot System supports wideband 3.5GHz spectrum of all Australian mobile operators.

  Optus said what makes the system more advanced is it features precise indoor positioning of people or objects inside multi-storey buildings, airports, and underground locations where traditional GPS and other satellite technologies lacked precision.

  “With Ericsson’s multi-operator 5G Radio Dot system, Optus can support its consumer and enterprise customers across multiple venues to deliver a high-capacity 5G solution for both uplink and downlink and enhance 5G customer experience in indoor locations enabling new emerging use cases such as XR/VR, and precise positioning,” said Optus vice president access network strategy planning and quality Kent Wu.

  “With the rapidly growing demands for data, coupled with the complexities of delivering the highest quality coverage in indoor environments, Optus can now easily deploy a solution that delivers indoor 5G coverage to support major enterprise customers, delivering high-capacity 5G indoor coverage on 3.5GHz spectrum, which is critical for indoor locations such as venues, sporting stadiums, and buildings,” said Ericsson head of global customer unit Singtel Daniel Ode.

  The first production implementation for the multi-operator Ericsson Radio Dot System is planned in Optus’ network in NSW in 2024.

• Singtel develops app-based network slicing
  in 5G
  By Kenn Anthony Mendoza

  Singtel has partnered with Swedish telco vendor Ericsson and tech giant Samsung to implement what they claim to be the world’s first implementation of app-based network slicing.

  This will help mobile owners to activate a customised slice of Singtel’s 5G network to boost the performance of their apps.

  Previous network slicing technologies only provided a differentiated network experience to subscribers’ lines, but not selected apps, Singtel claimed.

  Singtel used its CAST application during the live streaming of the recent Australian Open to test an advanced network slicing technology known as User Equipment Route Selection Policy (USRP) with Application Detection Control (ADC).

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  Apps that require higher data performance such as artificial intelligence and augmented/extended reality will benefit from the slicing.

  Singtel may capitalise this development to offer apps including CAST with boosted performance in the future.

  URSP runs on Ericsson's dual-mode 5G Core solution and channels data traffic through a dedicated, optimal path between smart devices and Singtel’s 5G network.

  Samsung is one of the first device manufacturers to have configured URSP for its Galaxy S24 Ultra and plans to extend the rollout for its other devices.

  “Customer experiences are getting more immersive with 5G. With these tailored 5G network slices, we’re unlocking a new pathway for app owners to deliver enhanced user experiences. As data consumption and processing soar with the prevalence of 4K video and artificial intelligence, demands on our telco networks will rise, putting a strain on app performance, said Singtel managing director networks Tay Yeow Lian.

  “With URSP features, consumers can customise their profile to enable better use of 5G RAN Slicing with Quality of Service. Performance-based business models will address the full potential of digitalisation by improving the application experience with differentiated connectivity performance, thereby making performance an important differentiator in future networks, said Ericsson Singapore Brunei, Philippines head and Singtel head of global customer unit in market area Southeast Asia, Oceania, and India Daniel Ode.

  This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 27 February 2024.

• Telstra unveils 5G slicing product
  in Business Telecoms
  By Kenn Anthony Mendoza

  Telstra will introduce a 5G slicing product to market this year which it said was made possible by a newly-developed proof-of-value mobility analytics engine.

  5G slicing allows telcos to create multiple virtual networks with different performance characteristics on the same physical network, enabling customised solutions for different customer needs.

  The engine analyses 5G slicing traffic every second to check if a customer has received the committed performance promised.

  If they get the promised service, they will be billed, or otherwise not charged if they did not get it.

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  “This [engine] solves a critical piece in the puzzle to deploying 5G slicing to enterprise customers across different industries, ensuring transparency and accountability around specific speeds and uptime as part of the network slice,” said Telstra executive network applications and cloud Shailin Sehgal.

  The Telstra 5G slicing uses templates to tailor a slice to a customer case and specific performance requirements such as speed, security and latency.

  “The customisation we can layer on our 5G slice technology makes it especially useful for a wide variety of use cases, from performance for transport networks or construction sites, to public safety technology such as video surveillance”, said Sehgal.

  Australian construction company Hindmarsh is the first customer to trial Telstra’s new solution.

  Hindmarsh IT manager Mark Crameri said they deployed the 5G fixed wireless network slicing link at one of their heaviest manned sites with over 30 staff each with laptops and phones, along with tablets and video conferencing equipment.

  “To date the reliability of the new link has been tremendous, access to our business-critical systems is incredibly fast, not to mention video conferencing and internet access, making it faster and easier to work productively on site,” Crameri said.

  Telstra worked with Casa Systems to ensure network performance. The company used Casa Systems’ Realtime Fastlane Accelerator (RFA) technology and User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) 5G standard to route different types of traffic to different slices based on a network template.

  For example, Telstra could create a network template for IP telephony applications that Casa Systems devices will support.

  Telstra also worked with Ericsson on a solution to deploy network slicing.

  Telstra’s approach to 5G slicing will be on display within the Ericsson Hall at Mobile World Congress until Thursday 29 February 2024.

• TPG Telecom partners with Ericsson to automate software upgrade
  in Business Telecoms
  By Kenn Anthony Mendoza

  TPG Telecom has partnered with Swedish telco vendor Ericsson to implement automated software features into its 5G core network.

  TPG Telecom said it implemented an automated in-service software upgrade (ISSU) capability for functions in Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G core.

  TPG Telecom claimed the upgrade provides the flexibility to roll out updates of new network features and improve responsiveness and execution times of end-to-end flows in its core network.

  Customers benefit from service enhancements including security and reliability features, leading to fewer interruptions.

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  TPG Telecom said the capabilities of the ISSU provide 70% faster software upgrade execution and eliminate the need to tap external suppliers to assist when performing upgrades.

  “Automation enhances the efficiency of our network, while also empowering our people to redirect their time towards innovation and investment in other critical areas of our network,” said TPG Telecom general manager core network applications Clinton Fick.

  "This milestone is not only a significant shift in software automation but also heralds a new era of agility and efficiency in network management,” claimed Ericsson head ANZ Emilio Romeo.