2018

Lloyd’s, AIR release report explores economic impact of a major cloud service outage A cyber security incident that takes a top three cloud provider offline for three to six days …

MulteFire deploys LTE solely in the unlicensed 5 GHz band Solving for in-building cellular connectivity is an increasingly pointed problem for venue owners. In the context of Class A real …

Cisco announces HyperFlex 3.0 Cisco announced updates to its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), version 3.0, in a push to ease businesses into a hybrid, multi-cloud environment. While several companies are …

Smart transportation, a key internet of things vertical application, refers to the integrated application of modern technologies and management strategies in transportation systems. These technologies can provide innovative services relating …

5G NR interoperability test used a Huawei commercial base station; Intel 5G mobile trial platform Deutsche Telekom (DT), Intel and Huawei announced they have achieved what it claims to be …

Test company EXFO said this week that its test solutions were used by China Mobile for a major assessment of performance capabilities for the core networks of four “major vendors” …

T-Mobile’s network delivered the fastest download speeds in tests conducted by OpenSignal during the fourth quarter. OpenSignal collects much of its data from users who choose to download its app, …

New report highlights SDN orchestration market growth A new report published by MarketsandMarkets projects the software-defined networking (SDN) orchestration market to swell from $214.7 million in 2017 to $4,458.5 million …

Governors of Montana, New York order states to only contract with telecom providers who uphold net neutrality The governors of Montana and New York this week signed executive orders aimed …

Qualcomm, Xiaomi, ZTE, Lenovo and others partner to bring 5G NR-compliant devices to market in 2019 China is a major market for mobile devices services and that the market opportunity …

Verizon announces Session Border Controller-as-a-Service Verizon announced it is expanding its SDN solution suite with the launch of Virtual Network Services – Session Border Controller-as-a-Service (SBCaaS). Verizon introduced Virtual Network …

Unlicensed spectrum creates opportunity for carriers to add capacity and for enterprises to deploy private LTE networks For both voice and data connectivity, as well as support for internet of …

Deutsche Telekom has launched an IoT space within IBM ‘s Watson IoT center in Munich German operator Deutsche Telekom has launched an IoT innovation space within IBM’s Watson IoT center …

Beyond military applications Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, are no longer bound to military applications. The potential applications of drones is significantly increasing as the components that …

Millimeter wave essential to meeting spectrum crunch and data demand Gigabit LTE is boosting capacity to meet demand today and setting the stage for a smooth roll out of 5G …

  Collision provides a flexible and scalable software-only solution that allows massive performance increases to any vendor’s M-MIMO system for LTE and 5G. Similar to the advantages it has demonstrated …

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Operators and their customers can’t wait for 5G to be commercialized and scaled–the capacity crunch is here today, particularly in the era of unlimited data. To solve this problem, operators …

AT&T is asking Congress for a national net neutrality law as it continues to push for permission to purchase Time Warner for $85 billion. The carrier took its net neutrality …

The University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab recently expanded its automotive Ethernet testing capabilities, and UNH-IOL says that it is the first lab to offer 1000BASE-T1 physical medium attachment testing …

The rollout of mobile 5G networks is expected to drive the next major round of wireless infrastructure spending, but tower owners expect to see a pickup in spending long before …

SteetLight Data is providing the Virginia Department of Transportation with on-demand traffic intelligence The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has selected San Francisco-based mobility analytics firm StreetLight Data to provide …

New partners in the 5G for Italy program include Cisco, SAP and Arthur D. Little Italian mobile operator TIM, owned by telecommunications group Telecom Italia, and Swedish vendor Ericsson have …

  The use cases for indoor location services continue to grow—every industry from manufacturing and logistics to law enforcement to healthcare to retail, and dozens of others, can benefit from …

The rapid adoption of gigabit LTE on the path to 5G is one of several mega-trends shaping the way carriers plan, deploy, monitor and manage networks. The telecom industry is …