February 2018

Deutsche Telekom has invited smart cities to offer its new white-label contactless payment application, City Pass, as a way for residents to pay for municipal services. The Germany based network …

Carrier Blockchain Study Group announces new members LG Uplus, Etisalat Group, KT, Telefónica and PLDT have become members of the Carrier Blockchain Study Group (CBSG) as part of an initiative …

AT&T extends hybrid networking options AT&T recently announced it is making its SD-WAN service available to over 150 countries and territories. AT&T originally deployed its platform, dubbed SD-WAN – Network …

Sprint will use Synchronoss Technologies’ Digital platform to boost its business services with a streamlined, smarter online portal for enterprise customers and expanded internal capabilities for customer care. The digital …

Rackspace deploys over 22,000 Cisco firewalls Rackspace is making Cisco’s next-generation firewalls available to customers who need to secure multi-cloud environments. Cisco and Rackspace’s partnership stretches back nearly 20 years, …

  ZTE has rolled out a complete industry-leading 4G/5G convergence solution that will certainly help operators gain an upper hand and have more success in the upcoming 5G era. From the technical development perspective, 5G is an …

AT&T Mobility looks like it will be first out of the 5G gates at the end of this year where they will launch in a dozen cities. They say the …

Nokia also announced a 5G field trial in Italy in partnership with Vodafone BARCELONA- Nokia and China Mobile have inked a deal under which the two firms will jointly investigate …

  The world’s first, entirely cashier-less store in Seattle opened recently. AmazonGo uses “intelligent” cameras and a powerful set of algorithms to “think”. It is a grocery outfit, but not …

802.11ax ecosystem starting to shape up The race to IEEE 802.11ax Wi-Fi is on. Qualcomm’s recently unveiled WCN3998 solution is the latest addition to a growing number of pre-standard or …

Enhanced mobile broadband use case will lead 5G deployments, CEO says Ericsson President and CEO Börje Ekholm kicked-off Mobile World Congress 2018 by providing an update on the network infrastructure giant’s …

BARCELONA–Earlier this month Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., announced an impressive line up of more than a dozen device OEMs that plan to use the chipmaker’s Snapdragon 845 mobile platform. That Samsung …

While many aspects of the smart city vision seem distant and over-hyped, solutions for smart energy and water management are not only technologically ready to go today, but offer attractive …

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Members of the National Wireless Safety Alliance said that tower contractors may soon begin to see requirements from carriers that a percentage of their employees have NWSA certification — …

Cisco releases 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report Cyber criminals are increasingly using encryption to evade detection, while security professionals are becoming more reliant on automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence (A.I.). …

Now that the 3GPP has adopted an initial 5G specification, chipmakers and device manufacturers can start developing end-user equipment for next-generation networks. National Instruments is laying the groundwork with a …

  As we enter the early stages of the “5G era,” new technologies are deploying to cover use cases around Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMMB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), and …

Riverbed announces SteelConnect updates Riverbed recently announced updates to its SD-WAN solution SteelConnect, including private links that enable users to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Other …

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Danielle Meyers likes the view from the top — of the cell tower, that is. Meyers, a lead tower technician for six years for MillerCo, is based in Texas …

The future of networking Software-defined networking (SDN) is expected to play a role in the enablement of intent-based networking systems (IBNS), which promise to give network administrators greater control over …

The two companies will collaborate on end-to- end network slicing for critical communications Mobile operator Swisscom announced plans to deploy a commercial 5G network by the end of this year …

The pace of 5G trials has “rapidly accelerated during the past six months,” according to new information from Viavi Solutions on the state of 5G trials. Viavi said that 72 …

5G fixed wireless access use case brings new set of testing challenges With the 5G non-standalone (NSA) specification set for completion later this year along with the 3GPP tracking to …

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Network densification efforts mean new strategies — and new challenges — for infrastructure installation, from zoning to painting, according to Ryan Peters, who is the manager for Seattle-based Legacy …