2020

‘Greece has the sun and now it’s getting a cloud,’ said Greek Prime Minister Microsoft plans to build three data centers in Greece, resulting in an investment of approximately $1 …

  Telecommunications infrastructure operator Cellnex Telecom and IoT connectivity company Everynet have put together a deal to jointly promote the roll out of new internet of things networks in Italy, …

Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need …

  Korean telecommunications operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have ordered 28 GHz 5G base stations from compatriot company Samsung Electronics for the first time, Korean press reported. According …

  U.S. workplace technology firm Crestron has launched its Crestron One app with mobile room control. The new offering enables a “precise control experience” from any personal device and is …

Netscout: COVID-19 “added rocket fuel to the growth in DDoS attacks” Cyber threats are shifting rapidly as attackers respond to the changing network conditions driven by the global coronavirus pandemic. …

  As our wireless communication networks continue to advance and deliver connectivity to more people and more places, providers are turning to all sorts of technologies to increase capacity and …

On this week’s episode, Suruchi Gupta, Samsung’s senior professional of sales and head of 5G collaboration, discusses the company’s commitment to helping create an open telecom ecosystem that supports multi-vendor interoperability.

Swiss Re and Hitachi are offering to insure industrial companies against business disruption from bad or back-firing algorithms in critical AI-controlled processes and operations. It is the first time enterprises …

4G is still the dominant force determining users’ network experience, and the quality of that experience is a crucial element of operators’ ability to attract and retain customers. Despite the …

The recent change of CEO at Synchronoss Technologies created some uncertainty among investors, however things look like they are settling down and getting back on track. The cloud services company …

  Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has signed 17 new 5G commercial agreements in the third quarter of the year. With these wins, the vendor reached 100 commercial 5G …

  Telefonica and Liberty Global announced the aim to offer 5G services in 100 towns and cities across the U.K. by the end of 2021, following the proposed merger of …

  ABB announced the launch of its first series of virtual innovation shows for smart buildings, since experts are predicting that 30% of the global workforce will work from home …

T-Mobile In Early August, T-Mobile claimed a world’s first with the launch of a nationwide standalone 5G network that uses its 600 MHz spectrum. T-Mo initially launched its 600 MHz …

The success of 5G for both mobile and fixed wireless access will be built on deployment in wide contiguous blocks of spectrum. 5G extends the catalogue of applicable frequency bands …

Universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) promises to bring simplicity and flexibility to managed network services. Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware (also known as whiteboxes) a uCPE platform can host several …

Standalone 5G and edge compute bring enterprise value The ability to deliver a network slice is the long goal of the transition to standalone 5G. At a high-level, a network …

Digital twin and digital twin drive process improvement within and beyond a factory Digital transformation is a broad term that means many things to many people. But, at its core, …

If you miss the boat on IoT, you will miss the boat on business. That was the message from adopters of new IoT technologies, according to a Vodafone poll of …

Many 5G operators are quickly realizing that Integrated Access Backhauls (IABs) are an ideal solution to expand 5G coverage. This is even more important for operators such as Verizon and …

October greetings from Virginia Beach and Davidson/ Lake Norman.  Fall has arrived in the Piedmont, but that has not kept us (and pets) from enjoying our kayaks.  Hopefully you are …

This trend of disaggregation, virtualization and commoditization has implications beyond just Open RAN. 5G was intentionally designed to be flexible and adaptable. As such, the networks have to mirror that …

Open RAN Policy Coalition In May this year, the Open RAN Policy Coalition was established to advocate for “vendor choice and flexibility in next-generation network deployments,” as Executive Director Diane …

Like most things telecom, Open RAN brings with it a complex alphabet soup of acronyms and initialisms. Here we’re providing brief explanations of some key terminology. And, to be sure, …