2017

Microwave backhaul specialist DragonWave delisted from from TSX and NASDAQ; board of director resigns Once a significant player in the microwave backhaul space, Ottawa, Canada-based company DragonWave has effectively shutdown, …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …

When AT&T announced executive changes earlier this week, one key member of the management team was not mentioned. Employees, suppliers and customers waited to learn the fate of Glenn Lurie, …

It is an interesting time for companies that choose to house their IT infrastructure in data centers owned and operated by large telecommunications (telco) providers. Over the last decade, many …

According to the FCC’s own 2016 Broadband Progress Report, 39% of Americans living in rural areas lack access to ‘superfast’ broadband, leaping to 41% of Americans living in Tribal lands. …

Keysight’s $1.6 billion purchase of Ixia is already bearing fruit. The combined company has announced a new emulation system that it says is the first in the industry to provide …

Enterprises in multiple sectors such as retail, transportation, healthcare and manufacturing are connecting infrastructures and facilities into their IT environments more completely now than ever before. Municipalities, emergency teams and …

Along with my colleague Alice Tornquist, I was on Capitol Hill in July speaking at an event sponsored by the Congressional Spectrum Caucus, a bipartisan group established in 2014 by …

The speculation is finally over: But does the semiconductor industry have a new market share revenue leader? It depends how you look at the data! If you analyze the data …

The new cloud-based smart farm solution was built on Microsoft Azure and Azure IoT technologies Schneider Electric, which specializes in energy management and automation solutions, has worked with New Zealand …

Through the new deal, the Canadian telco will offer energy management as a service Virginia-based GridPoint has partnered with Canadian telecom firm Bell to deliver smart energy management solutions (EMS) …

Elemental Machines wants to bring the internet of things to the world of scientific research. The company’s sensors monitor critical laboratory and production equipment, as well as invisible environmental variables. …

 Packet seeks to provide developers an un-opinionated infrastructure Packet, a New York-based startup that specializes in bare metal infrastructure, recently launched its new edge compute service in 15 locations across …

In an effort to protect the U.S. government from hackers, a group of senators has introduced a bill that would legislate specific security measures for all connected hardware purchased by …

4×4 MIMO + carrier aggregation + 256 QAM = gigabit LTE In what Peter Carson, senior director of marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, dubbed an international “speed race” (pun intended?), all four …

Between acquisitions and supplier deals, Verizon has spent more than $3 billion on fiber–this year It’s difficult to state just how valuable fiber optic assets are to the telecommunications network …

How SDN is benefiting telecom operators Software-defined networking (SDN) is a budding technology shaping the telecom industry. The architecture enables network behavior to be centrally controlled through software applications using …

Advances in IoT and broadband mobile with LTE and 5G, and cloud-native computing in scalable, high performance applications have stimulated the development of a new class of edge computing solutions …

A growing number of smart cities are currently under development in North America. City authorities in several cities across the U.S are taking steps in order to implement smart city …

 The French firm has fully acquired Italian smart metering competitor, which will operate under the Sagemcom Italia brand French company Sagemcom has fully acquired Italian provider of smart metering solutions …

Cool tools for DevOps More and more IT organizations are adopting DevOps practices. In switching to a DevOps work environment, it is important to have the right tools in place. …

Marcelo Claure says merging Sprint with another wireless carrier offers “enormous” synergies From a potential tie-up with T-Mobile US to a consolidation with a broadband/pay TV provider like Charter Communications, …

The company has inked a deal with the City of Raymondville to implement a city-wide water mater upgrade Schneider Electric has partnered with the City of Raymondville, Texas to implement …

A growing number of smart cities are currently under development in North America. City authorities in several cities across the U.S are taking steps in order to implement smart city …

I see various mergers and acquisitions in the communications service provider space eventually bringing us to just four integrated carriers in the U.S. Since earlier this year, it feels like …