Today AWS Direct Connect has landed sites in five cities – Denver, Phoenix, Madrid, Helsinki and Chennai. In the US, CoreSite DE1, Denver and phoenixNAP, Phoenix bring the total AWS Direct Connect sites in the country to 28. With global access enabled for AWS Direct Connect, these sites can reach AWS resources in any global AWS Region. In the AWS Management Console, Denver will be found under its home region of US West (Oregon) and Phoenix will be found in US West (N.California). In Europe, ITConic Madrid 2, now an Equinix datacenter, marks the second AWS Direct Connect site in Madrid and Equinix HE6, Helsinki is the first AWS Direct Connect presence in Finland. Both these sites, Madrid and Helsinki, will be found under the EU Central (Frankfurt) AWS Region in the console. In Asia, India gets its first site outside Mumbai with STT GDC Chennai VSB in Chennai, which will be found in its home region of Asia Pacific (Mumbai).  

Green Valley Oil Services has awarded Nijhuis Industries an order to deliver a turnkey wastewater treatment plant for the South Port Said Industrial Zone in Egypt…

Evoqua shares raised $500m on its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange on 2 November.

Water Planet has sold its MembranePRO Services business to private investors.

The International Desalination Association (IDA) and Global Solar Council have pledged to promote desalination technologies powered by solar energy.

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Bridgetek, a rapidly growing semiconductor company that develops innovative silicon solutions to enhance the way in which society interacts with technology. The Bridgetek product line at Mouser comprises multi-award-winning graphic controller ICs, performance-optimized microcontrollers, development hardware, and display modules. Each member of Bridgetek’s FT81x Embedded Video …

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A company called 3devised is working on a high-resolution 3D printer that occupies only 155 x 155 x 290mm but can print 85.4 x 48 x 130mm. Called Pluto, it uses stereolithography, with a liquid print medium which polymerises to a solid under the influence of ultra-violet light. In this case, the light comes from a …

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  AMS has announced a configurable capacitive sensing front end which allows speed and resolution to be traded to optimise designs. Called PCap04, it can capture and digitise 50,000 times per second at its fastest setting, or achieve 8aF resolution at its most sensitive. “Configurability also enables sensor manufacturers to trade measurement speed off against …

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Samsung Is in volume production  of chip-on-board LED lighting packages, labelled the “Samsung D-series Special Colour.” The packages are engineered to bring out the most desirable colour tones of objects whose viewing is particularly colour-sensitive, making them optimal for many commercial lighting applications. Through spectrum engineering, colour spectrums within the D-series have been tuned to …

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A Royal Air Force chief technician turned businessman has opened an RF testing facility in South Yorkshire. Ian White founded Gaddon, an RF engineering and test consultancy, 10 years ago, in that time it has carried out work for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). A new workshop at Hoyle Mill in Penistone near Barnsley will …

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