Texas has hosted NASA s Mission Control since 1965.
And going still further back, the annals of UFO lore record an apparent Aurora, Texas, interstellar crash in 1897.
Now, it is to Texas that Elon Musk s SpaceX moves its Starlink broadband satellite factory and deep-space rocket operations, which go to Austin and Boca Chica, respectively.
Texas, we have lift-off: It s been confirmed that Starlink will be based in Texas, while Elon Musk tries to rename Boca Chica as Starbase.
The Skylink s the limit
A recent SpaceX job posting suggests a new state of the art factory in Austin will make its Starlink kit – that is, dishes and antennas to connect users to the satellites, Wi-Fi routers, and antenna mounting hardware.
Recent results from Zoom only serve to illustrate how important videoconferencing software has become during the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike its competitors, Zoom has also joined the elite group of companies whose name has now become a verb.
Of course, competitors in this field are not sitting still, as already remarked by Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Susannah Streeter. Indeed, Microsoft has also been doing pretty well from the rising demand for digital services during the pandemic.
Microsoft Teams forms a key part of the software giant s approach to flexible working as part of its Productivity and Business Processes segment.
Connecting you: Microsoft has announced integration for Teams with PSTN, pushing it further towards unified communications.
There s plenty of talk about how edge computing could eventually change the very nature of the Internet s architecture by rerouting data traffic through smaller, local computing facilities instead of massive, far-flung data centers. Doing so, according to proponents, could give Internet services cat-like response times.
Already some massive telecom players have been investing in this opportunity. For example, AT&T and Verizon have begun lighting up public edge computing services with the likes of Microsoft and Amazon. Meantime, tower companies like SBA Communications have been purchasing data centers, while fiber providers like Lumen Technologies have been building out edge computing platforms with various partners such as IBM.
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SILICON VALLEY, Calif. MATRIXX Software, the global leader in 5G monetization solutions, announced they have been selected by Telefónica Germany/O2 as their monetization partner in the setup of its new, lean IT architecture. Telefónica Germany/O2 will deploy the MATRIXX Digital Commerce Platform, including its Cloud Native CCS, for 4G/5G/Fixed monetization of consumer and enterprise services. The MATRIXX solution provides Telefónica Germany/O2 with a modern, configurable and cloud native charging platform especially for our future 5G standalone network, which supports us to further improve customer experience, go-to-market faster and reduce our IT operating costs, said Mallik Rao, CTIO, Telefónica Germany/O2.