Yearly Archives: 2018

Industry leaders preview MWC 2018 trends (Reader Forum)

Spoiler alert: 5G technologies like massive MIMO, C-RAN and more are going to lead the discussion at MWC 2018 The telecom industry is gearing up...

TM Forum develops digital architecture principles with ODA program

TM Forum announces Open Digital Architecture (ODA) program TM Forum, a nonprofit industry association for service providers and their suppliers in the telecom industry, premiered...

ZTE launches end-to-end 5G network slicing solution

The Chinese vendor is currently investing $500 million annually in 5G research ZTE has released what it claims to be the world’s first end-to-end 5G...

Vodafone confirms reports of ‘early stage’ talks with Liberty Global

Vodafone is interested in Liberty Global's "overlapping continental European assets" Vodafone Group on Monday acknowledged reports the company" in early stage discussions with Liberty Global regarding...

Huawei, Telefonica complete testbed for 5G-V2X technology

 Huawei highlighted the testbed is a step forward towards the commercialization of 5G services Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica and vendor Huawei have completed what the...

Merging the best of the cloud and the network (Reality Check)

  We are at the beginning of a revolution that is changing how we live, work and relate to each other. According to Professor Klaus...

Analyst Angle: How Microsoft can speed up search in Outlook

  Outlook search presently reviews all the email in the designated mailbox or folder(s). It would search much faster if they just looked at a...

Juniper, TIM to develop cloud-oriented network under MoU

Juniper Networks and TIM sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Italian mobile operator TIM and Juniper Networks are working together under a MoU on the research...

Broadcom increases bid for Qualcomm

New offer values Qualcomm at roughly $120 billion Broadcom has increased its bid for Qualcomm by 17%, and is now offering shareholders $82 per share....

Red Hat, Mycom OSI to bring automated assurance to telco cloud

Red Hat and Mycom OSI announce partnership Red Hat and Mycom OSI recently announced they are joining forces as part of an initiative to provide...

Analyst Angle: Robotics at CES — not there yet

  The year kicked off, as usual, with the big CES show in Las Vegas. Some of the hot trends on display this year were...

Cisco completes $1.9 billion acquisition of BroadSoft

Cisco receives antitrust clearance for pending BroadSoft purchase Cisco recently finalized its acquisition of BroadSoft, thereby sealing the $1.9 billion deal. Paying $55 per share,...

China Unicom using Nokia cloud-native core for 5G evolution

As it raises billions for 5G, China Unicom focused on service flexibility for 5G To simultaneously support 5G use cases with highly variable service-level needs,...

Three operator trends to watch in 2018: Massive MIMO, LAA and NB-IoT

5G is going to be all about multi-gigabit-per-second speeds, support for the booming internet of things and ultra-low latency. But 5G isn't here yet....

Verizon building nationwide NB-IoT network this year

NB-IoT will complement existing LTE Cat 1 and Cat M1 network support The internet of things (IoT) consists of a huge variety of use cases...

How Scandinavian telcos are testing IoT

Telia Company working with the Finnish postal service to develop a smart mailbox project The Finnish postal service Posti and Swedish telecommunications group Telia Company...

Telstra opens 5G innovation center in Australia’s Gold Coast

Telstra to launch commercial 5G services in Australia during 2019 Australian telecommunications company Telstra has opened a 5G innovation centre in the Gold Coast region....

Kagan: Amazon.com love story gone bad

Like you, I have done business with Amazon.com forever. And generally speaking, I have been very satisfied with their business model. However, that does not mean...

Telecom Tweets of the Week: Floating the idea of nationalized 5G

There was a brief dust-up this week about the possibility of a nationalized 5G network that prompted immediate outcry from the industry, trade groups...

VMware CEO weighs-in on possible reverse merger with Dell

Following reports that Dell Technologies is evaluating a reverse merger with VMware, the latter company's CEO Pat Gelsinger on Friday commented on the evolving...

Broadcom introduces software development kit to simplify switch configuration

Broadcom makes available open source software development kit Broadcom recently announced the immediate availability of an open source software development kit (SDK), dubbed SDKLT, for...

AT&T may be selling its data centers

AT&T is once again exploring a sale of its data center assets, according to The Wall Street Journal. As it prepares for the potential...

How can 5G and IoT can enhance port operations?

Nokia and Deutsche Telekom testing out 5G applications with the Port of Hamburg Support for massive internet of things (IoT) is one of the three...

Aryaka, Radware collaborate to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks

Aryaka and Radware announce partnership Global SD-WAN provider Aryaka and cyber security services provider Radware are teaming up to implement Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack detection and...

Sprint CEO says carrier will deliver first mobile 5G network ‘potentially in the world’

Massive MIMO and 2.5 GHz spectrum portfolio set the stage for 5G in 2019, according to Sprint execs In a Friday conference call, Sprint CEO...
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