2017

Telefonica Chile chooses Ericsson to complete virtualization of core network Telefonica, the biggest mobile network operator and internet service provider in Chile, announced it has chosen Ericsson to finish the …

Stronger than expected cloud demand compels Microsoft to triple Azure presence in China Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently announced during the Microsoft Tech Summit 2017 in Beijing the company intends …

Sprint will use Altice footprint to deploy thousands of Magic Box small cells The line between telcos and cable companies has been blurring for some time as telcos look to …

  Our desire for privacy is part of what makes us human. None of us likes to have our privacy invaded, whether from someone reading over our shoulder or a …

Sprint rebounding with MVNO arrangement with Altice USA The months of will they, won’t they speculation then formal discussions between Sprint parent SoftBank and T-Mobile US parent Deutsche Telekom are …

Predictive maintenance is a key smart manufacturing use case Japanese company Hirotec Group, one of the largest private production companies in the global automotive market, wanted to implement Industry 4.0 …

 IIJ and Hirata’s smart factory offering includes predictive maintenance and remote management systems, among other solutions Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) and Hirata Corporation have signed a partnership to implement smart …

The 5G trial used a 4.5 GHz system developed with Huawei Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo announced the completion of what it claims to be the world’s first  outdoor trial of …

Deutsche Telekom’s smart city plan includes the deployment of connected street lights and smart waste containers Deutsche Telekom and the municipal government of Bonn have kicked off a program to …

AT&T says many of its customers are on a “journey to the cloud” and the carrier wants to provide the networking environment to get them there. To that end, AT&T …

You would think Google is a giant success in everything they touch, but in reality, they win and lose just like every other company. Troubles and problems reported on their …

Product demo of EXFO’s new product EX1 for scalable, open platform test solution for validating bandwidth speed and monitoring network performance at Cable Tec.

PCTel is opening up a test lab focused on Wi-Fi performance at its Bloomingdale, Ill. headquarters. The new lab will provide wireless performance testing for Wi-Fi access points and devices …

Google unveils Andromeda 2.0 Google announced it has made some updates to software-defined networking (SDN) platform Andromeda, which the company said should reduce network latency between Compute Engine virtual machines …

T-Mobile US CEO John Legere has reportedly reached out to Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure in an effort to keep the proposed merger of the two carriers on the table. The …

VMware announces plans to purchase VeloCloud VMware announced Thursday it intends to acquire VeloCloud, a startup making a splash in the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market. The move deepens …

Area outside of Toronto targeted for a holistic smart city build Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google-parent company Alphabet, is planning to build a smart city from the ground up …

Riverbed integrates Zscaler cloud security into SD-WAN platform SteelConnect Riverbed Technology announced at its annual customer event in New York that it is working with cloud security vendor Zscaler to …

Is the Trump administration backing away from mandating the use of Dedicated Short Range Communications technology in new vehicles? The Associated Press reported that the administration has decided not to pursue …

Expansion of LoRa IoT network, partnership with HPE mark expansion plans Indian communications service provider Tata Communications is betting big on the expansion of internet of things (IoT) network and …

The vendor believes Europe will see the initial commercial deployments of 5G in 2018 or 2019 Ericsson expects to see the initial commercial deployment of 5G technology in Europe in …

The funds will be used to expand the firm’s ecosystem of partners and providers Ayla Networks, a provider of internet of things (IoT) platform-as-a-service (PaaS), has raised $60 million in …

Under the ‘Thinx’ program, the Spanish telco plans to open IoT labs in Europe and Latin America Spanish telecom operator Telefonica has launched what it calls “The Thinx,” an initiative …

Todd Dover at EXFO demonstrates the new OTDR covering both CWDM and DWDM wavelengths, in Denver, CO.

FirstNet oversight hearing highlights different perspectives on opt-in/opt-out In a hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill, representatives from multiple states and the First Responders Network Authority were quizzed on topics ranging …