Yearly Archives: 2017

Oracle cloud strategy extends to Australia with Aconex purchase

Oracle to acquire Aconex for approximately $1.2 billion Oracle announced it has entered an agreement to purchase Aconex, an Australian company that makes cloud-based collaboration...

Thales acquires Gemalto for $5.6 billion to advance digital security

Thales outbids Atos for Gemalto French aerospace specialist Thales outbid Atos for Dutch cybersecurity provider Gemalto. The company has agreed to purchase Gemalto for $5.6...

3GPP fun facts, Part 3 (Analyst Angle)

Editor's Note: SRG has been participating in 3GPP standardization meetings since September 2015 when the standards body held its first workshop on 5G.  Prior to...

An introduction to network slicing

What is network slicing? Network slicing is a kind of virtual network architecture, which leverages the principles behind network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking...

Ooredoo breaks 1 Gbps barrier on commercial network

Speeds up to 1.2 Gbps available to Ooredoo customers with compatible smartphones Carriers around the world are pushing the 1 Gbps data throughput barrier with...

DARPA wants an “ocean of things”

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is kicking off a new program that envisions taking the internet of things to grand scale, using IoT...

Huawei, NTT DoCoMo complete new 5G trial in Japan

The trial, which took place in Yokohama, paves the way for applications and deployment of 5G millimeter wave, according to Huawei Chinese vendor Huawei and...

Vodafone expands NB-IoT footprint with new deployment in Germany

Vodafone launched the technology in Düsseldorf as part of an initiative to offer this service in 13 German cities by end-2018 Vodafone Germany has announced...

Analyst Angle: BSNL driving digital India with Wi-Fi strategy

  India is known to have the second largest population in the world at 1.3 billion, but it also has the second largest number of...

Top 50 of 2017, Part 2: IoT hype, sensors, 5G FWA

Editors note: This week we’ll take a look back at the 50 stories that drew the highest level of engagement from our RCR Wireless...

5G fixed wireless access makes major progress in 2017

Verizon prepping to deliver residential broadband using 5G fixed wireless access in 2018 U.S. operators in 2017 carried out extensive tests of the pre-standard, non-standalone...

Nokia provides data context with processing software solution

Nokia unveils Data Refinery solution Nokia premiered a new data processing software today called Nokia Data Refinery, formerly Comptel Data Refinery, which aims to provide...

Michigan completes truck platooning demonstration

Peloton Technology carried out the truck platooning demo with the Michigan Department of Transportation Peloton Technology, a developer of connected and automated vehicle systems for...

Juniper challenges Cisco, VMware with Contrail Enterprise Multicloud

Juniper releases OpenContrail codebase to Linux Foundation Juniper Networks is upping competition with Cisco, VMware and other enterprises taking up space in the cloud market...

Enabling shared spectrum: Software makes CBRS deployments possible

Carriers and other network operators should be able to offer some services using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum as soon as next year....

The role of blockchain in telecommunications

Beyond Bitcoin Blockchain is a buzzword frequently making news headlines, largely due to the numerous use cases it opens up. With roots tracing back to...

TIM moves towards 5G deployment in Italy

The telco has activated a 5G antenna with millimeter wave support in Turin Italian telecommunications firm TIM, owned by Telecom Italia, announced it has activated...

Ericsson: In 2018, line between user and device continues to blur

Each year Ericsson looks ahead at consumer technology trends that will likely shape the way humans interact with their devices and with each other....

Top 50 of 2017, Part 1: Millimeter wave, LTE call flow, Title II and more

Editors note: This week we'll take a look back at the 50 stories that drew the highest level of engagement from our RCR Wireless...

Analyst Angle: Apple Media — it’s time for Apple to re-brand its varied media efforts

  I remember a number of years ago when Apple announced that iTunes would allow users to buy TV shows and movies. This seemed a...

Inmarsat report: 82% of industry respondents to adopt IoT in the next two years

It began with the invention of the steam engine in the late 16th century, and continued through the age of science (and mass production)...

Smart manufacturing leaders on digital transformation strategies

Manufacturing is a key growth area for the internet of things The internet of things is driving digital transformation in a variety of industries looking...

Kagan: How unified communications help companies grow

Unified communications is the name for a cloud-based service that lets companies use a growing and integrated variety of enterprise communications services. There are...

Solar-only tower sites – a recipe for success or failure? (Reality Check)

  The mobile telecommunications landscape has been changing over the past few years, particularly in the world’s developing economies.  With customers demanding expanded rural network...

The pain of 802.1X authentication (Reader Forum)

The 802.1X standard for authenticating access to wired and wireless networks has met with a good deal of scrutiny in recent years. While 802.1X...
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