June 2021

There is a “significant knowledge gap relating to 5G” among U.S. business professionals, Ciena report says Less than 20% of professional employees in the U.S. say they understand the benefits …

The AI-on-5G platform combines the GPU and the DPU on the same EGX Nvidia AI card At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Nvidia announced that it is extending support for …

BAI Communications, which is majority-owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), has agreed to acquire privately held U.S.-based network infrastructure company Mobilitie, saying that the purchase “represents a …

June greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, Dallas (TX), and the mountain town of Murphy, NC.  After a busy week, the Briefer took some R&R time with friends in the mountains.  Pictured …

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is hard at work shaping the future of 5G as public networks continue to expand and improve, and ecosystem stakeholders work to harness 5G to power the …

  The global workplace experience apps market within commercial office space is expected to reach $988 million by 2025, up from an estimated $406 million in 2020, according to Swedish …

    German telco Deutsche Telekom has partnered with HHLA Sky, a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik, to implement a campus network at the Port of Hamburg. HHLA Sky …

IBM also announced the expansion of its automation portfolio at MWC 2021 Helped along by its purchase of software company Red Hat, IBM has snagged cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) …

In the debut episode of “Kell if I Know”, Adam Smith, director of marketing for LitePoint, discusses the ins and outs of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) — and this isn’t Verizon’s Ultra …

Ireland-based core network vendor Druid Software has announced a go-to-market deal on private 5G with system integrator Siticom. The Germany-based firm has an agreement with US-based Airspan Networks on 5G …

The end goal for 5G is a cloud-native, service-based, fully standalone (SA) network. That’s a major undertaking, which means most operators will spend several years with a mix of 4G, …

BARCELONA–In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, the brilliant Colombian novelist weaves a narrative of love, rejection, devotion, and ultimately reconciliation—decades after beginning (and then ending) their …

Japanese company NEC and Taiwanese company Microelectronics Technology (MTI), a network RF solutions provider, announced a collaboration focused on boosting the Open RAN (O-RAN) ecosystem. The strategic partnership, the two …

What will the internet look like going forward? I recently spoke with Jonathan Davidson, SVP and GM of Cisco Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group. He did a great job of clearing away …

The floodgate of Mobile World Congress 2021 announcements has opened! 5G Open RAN will undoubtedly be the biggest theme among them. On the first day of the event, the 5G …

Test company LitePoint said that its Ultra-Wideband (UWB) test platform is the first to be validated by the FiRa (Fine Ranging) Consortium for PHY conformance as part of its FiRa …

    Australian operator Telstra has secured a 15-year contract with Melbourne-based utility firm Yarra Valley Water to provide one million industrial IoT connections on Telstra’s IoT network. The win …

Australian carrier Optus, in partnership with Ericsson, has carried out a trial in which it delivered coexistence of narrow band IoT (NB-IoT) and Ericsson Spectrum Sharing between 5G and 4G …

  Network infrastructure provider Boingo Wireless has announced commercial availability of its enterprise private networks offering, currently being trialed at airports, sports and entertainment venues nationwide. Boingo said its private …

There are now three ways for a product to become Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Certified, the internationally recognized seal of approval for products indicating that they have met industry-agreed standards for …

China-based IoT module maker SIMCom is offering its SIM7070 series NB-IoT device with an embedded SIM (eSIM) from German chipmaker Infineon, making the 24 mm x 24 mm SIM7070 the …

Many CSPs are deploying 5G NSA with the aim of evolving to 5G SA as the technology matures. This calls for the transition from 5G NSA to 5G SA to …

Connectivity technologies like 5G and Wi-Fi 6 are transforming the healthcare industry Providing quality medical services in a reliable, secure, economical and efficient manner is a top priority among providers, …

Busy Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has acquired local Sigfox operator ENGIE M2M. The firm said the addition of ultra-narrowband (UNB) low-power IoT connectivity rounds-out its …

The coronavirus pandemic has led to an intensified focus on broadband availability, as people around the world turned to online services to stay connected, work and learn. Terry Young, who …