2018

Automation technologies are creating more jobs than they are destroying in Germany, according to a new report by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). Recent investments in digital technologies, …

Palo Alto Networks announces intent to purchase Secdo Endpoint security solution provider Palo Alto Networks announced plans to purchase Israel-based company Secdo. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed; …

In a promising sign for an equipment ecosystem for Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, CommScope and Ericsson said this week that they successfully completed interoperability testing of Ericsson’s equipment with …

Integrated LoRa devices and RF tech make up smart water platform in California-based Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that IoTsens, an Internet of …

RAD debuts vAccess Israel-based company RAD rolled out a new addition to its vCPE toolbox, dubbed vAccess, which enables value-added NFV and SDN-based services to be launched over any access. …

Mobile operators in South Korea had recently announced plans to launch commercial 5G services next year South Korean mobile operators have plans to share the costs for the deployment of …

KPN partnered with Nokia, ZTE and Huawei to test 5G in four cities   Dutch telecommunications company KPN is urging the Dutch government to make 3.5GHz spectrum available for 5G …

EXFO cited seasonal softness for performance in the second quarter of its fiscal 2018, reporting a net loss for the quarter of $4.66 million as it also digested the impact …

Choosing a host infrastructure The Infrastructure hosting market can feel overwhelming with the variety of technologies and platforms available. Generally speaking, however, infrastructure hosts fall into two categories: bare metal …

xRAN Forum recently released it’s fronthaul specification Virtualization of network infrastructure is part and parcel of the evolution for 5G. From the evolved packet core to the radio access network …

Verizon is busy testing indoor and outdoor small cells that will operate in the 3.5 GHz spectrum bands, and this week the carrier said the first use case will be …

Manchester city council in the UK has deployed a new smart city lighting system as part of its continuing CityVerve project, led by Cisco. The new lighting system can be …

In the face of rising political disruption, the European Commission (EC) has in recent weeks redoubled its innovation schedule with new commitments to artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and digital healthcare …

The fragmented IoT market is hard to understand for enterprises and hard to navigate for operators. Swedish vendor Ericsson says its new IoT ‘accelerator’ can help both sides. Enterprise IoT …

  Carriers have been smart when it comes to data plans — they’ve adapted plan offerings to consumer usage. It’s time for their phones to follow suit. Consumers no longer …

UK manufacturers are falling behind their counterparts in Asia and the US in the international race for industrial transformation. They are also bottom of the pile for integrating artificial intelligence …

COLLEGE PARK, Md.–The telecom and tech industry tends to focus on the positive aspects of smart cities — but panelists at the recent Wireless Connect event grappled not only with …

KDDI Europe selects Silver Peak’s Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution KDDI Europe, a London-based subsidiary of KDDI Corporation, is adopting and providing Silver Peak’s SD-WAN solution to its enterprise customers. KDDI …

A growing community The telecommunications industry and beyond is increasingly embracing open source software. Just this year, for example, the Linux Foundation established the LF Networking Fund (LFN) in an …

The two firms said the small cell deployment will be completed by 2020 U.K mobile operator O2 and compatriot communications infrastructure firm Arqiva confirmed plans to deploy up to 300 …

A Q&A with Ulrich Faisst, digital transformation officer, TRUMPF A growing number of companies in several industries are adopting smart manufacturing strategies to improve operation efficiency and gain more value …

DAS and digital electricity combine to solve in-building wireless coverage and capacity needs With more than 5 million-square-feet of retail, office, hotel, restaurant space, Michigan Plaza has a complicated set …

MEF announces two new specifications for MEF 3.0 framework The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, recently released two new specifications related to the MEF 3.0 framework. …

  Network densification remains one of the greatest challenges facing mobile operators as they look to implement 5G, add 4G capacity and increase user speeds. However, achieving massive densification requires …