March 2018

ORLANDO, Fla.–Smart cities. Public safety communications. Cellular evolution, including LTE and future 5G systems. Land Mobile Radio. The internet of things. Telecom technologies are evolving rapidly, and panelists at a …

VMware announces new hybrid cloud capabilities VMware announced it is extending its portfolio of cloud services to help deal with complexities and risks anchored to multi-cloud environments. Hybrid cloud environments …

Sprint reiterates role of massive MIMO in 4G and 5G plans Carrier presenters at the Deutsche Bank 2018 Media, Internet and Telecom Conference made clear the race for the best …

Transitioning to the cloud Companies are increasingly moving to the cloud as a way to run day-to-day business operations. Migrating to the cloud is easier said than done, however. A …

5G trial part of NTT DoCoMo’s efforts to research technical conditions of the 28 GHz band Huawei has announced a collaboration with Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and Tobu Railway to …

Under the new contract, Orange will provide ICT and smart city services to Jeddah Tower, the world?s tallest building French company Orange Business Services has signed a smart city consulting …

Officials focused on smart cities use cases as market, awareness matures Since launching its Spotlight Cities program in 2016, AT&T has moved from sponsoring pilot-type projects to working with municipal …

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 …

Ronan Dunne highlights experiential side of Verizon 5G fixed wireless offering Ronan Dunne, Verizon Group EVP and President of Verizon Wireless, has a clear message relative to the carrier’s 5G …

Microsoft to combine Azure Stack with Azure Government Microsoft announced it will integrate its Azure Stack with Azure Government sometime in the middle of the year as part of an …

CommScope’s Morgan Kurk, EVP and COO, and Ben Cardwell, SVP of Mobility Solutions, sat down with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2018 to share the company’s perspective on …

Pentagon criticized for awarding $950 million contract to Amazon partner The Pentagon is reducing a cloud deal with Virginia-based company Rean Cloud potentially worth $950 million to $65 million amid …

ORLANDO, Fla.–FirstNet CEO Mike Poth missed last year’s International Wireless Communications Expo because the First Responders Network Authority’s 25-year contract with AT&T for a national public safety broadband network was …

Different WAN technologies Software-defined networking (SDN) has played a major role in reshaping wide-area networks (WANs). So much so that other WAN technologies, such virtual WAN and hybrid WAN, are …

Intel will work with NTT DoCoMo on 5G applications including video, VR and connected cars Although the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea just wrapped up, Intel, which worked on …

Under the new deal, enterprise customers of Telefonica and China Unicom will be able to offer IoT services in China, Europe and Latin America Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica and China …

Indian government wants commercial 5G by 2020 Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel and vendor Huawei have conducted what the companies claim to be India’s first 5G network trial achieving a …

Sophie Legault, Director of Product Management at EXFO discusses and demonstrates EXFO’s SkyRAN solution while at Mobile World Congress 2018.

Cisco announced security updates to its analytics platform Tetration, including workload protection for any data center or cloud. Cisco announced its Tetration platform in 2016 as a way to provide …

Partnership focuses on analytics, data architecture Cisco and Teradata are partnering on a platform for smart cities that integrates Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities IoT platform with Teradata’s big data analytics …

Dynamic service assurance is needed to support IoT and 5G In an interview with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2018, John English, Netscout Systems product line manager, explained …

SonicWall announces 2018 Cyber Threat Report Internet security company SonicWall recently announced its 2018 Cyber Threat Report, which recorded approximately 9.32 billion malware attacks and over 12,500 new common vulnerabilities …

Versa Networks publishes global SD-WAN survey Versa Networks recently published a report that found software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) adoption is on the rise as a way to improve security. …

China’s government selected 97 smart manufacturing projects last year China plans to expand its demonstration program for smart manufacturing by adding about 100 pilot projects during 2018, Chinese press reported. …

Mobile World Congress is the industry’s biggest showcase of the year, and if you can manage to sift through the hype and the sheer volume of show news, you can …