Xilinx looking to grow its role in mass 5G network deployments Santa Clara, Calif.-based AMD, which specializes in high-performance CPUs and GPUs for data centers and PCS as well as …
C-V2X is viewed in the industry as key to supporting self-driving cars In addition to being a big personality—blunt-smoking guest appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, anyone?—Elon Musk is perhaps …
Potential product partnership with Dell Technologies and VMware? South Korea has been and still is a leading mobile market. In the context of 5G, the country’s Ministry of Science and …
DT COO: “The edge will become the center of gravity for digital transformation” There’s an adage that 5G is the first generation of cellular born in the cloud. If you …
Verizon CEO says with 5G in place, mission is to sell Last week with the launch of the iPhone 12 line up, Verizon turned on nationwide 5G and is continuing …
Nokia taps Qualcomm 5G RAN platform for indoor Smart Node base stations Continuing its momentum in supporting 5G infrastructure, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., today announced a “full portfolio of 5G infrastructure …
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 …
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, …
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, …
VMware sees open infrastructure, automation and integrated management as key to accelerating enterprise private network deployments At a virtual session during VMworld this week, the company broke down the opportunities …
Nokia announces cross-domain–core, transport and RAN–automated network slicing solutions The ability to autonomously orchestrate and manage a network slice extending from an operator’s EPC or cloud-native core, across the transport …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? John Saw, T-Mobile (Ep. 23) T-Mobile’s John Saw, executive vice president of advanced and emerging technologies, discusses the operator’s latest 5G …
Twin Cities latest to get Verizon’s mmWave 5G Home service As U.S. carriers invest in both 5G network expansions and new services built on the network, both T-Mobile US and …
ip.access brings 2G, 3G support to Mavenir’s Open RAN offering Open RAN continues to gain momentum globally, although the primary proof points have been greenfield network builds like Rakuten Mobile’s …
While the benefits of Open RAN (advantageous network economics and deployment flexibility chief among them) are widely touted, there are also well-articulated issues associated with the technology. One question is …
Let’s frame the Open RAN value proposition to better understand the benefits of disaggregating radio hardware and software, trading single-purpose equipment for general-purpose hardware and moving vital network functions into …
Now, because of COVID-19, health and safety are critical for buildings and facilities. Since the pandemic, the insecurities of outdated access control technology and systems have increasingly become a concern. …
This week we talk to Tareq Amin, Rakuten Mobile CTO and Group EVP and CAO of Rakuten, about his vision for (and reality of) a fully-virtualized, cloud-native network. Amin reflects on his time at Reliance Jio, discusses the future of Open RAN, and shares his motto–which doesn’t easily translate to Japanese.
Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission brought together a variety of Open RAN stakeholders for its Forum on 5G Open Radio Access Networks. While greenfield operators like DISH and …
Xilinx previously tapped by Telefónica in its push for massive Open RAN deployments This week San Jose-based Xilinx announced it’s shipping a T1 Telco Accelerator Card designed for 5G Open …
Partnership includes Open RAN and a drive toward advanced network automation As it continues to pursue integration of Open RAN technologies into its multi-national network footprint, Telefónica Global CTIO Enrique …
SoftBank retaining small ownership stake in Arm; NVIDIA paying in cash and stock U.S.-based NVIDIA on Sunday announced it had struck a deal with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank group for the …
