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AWS pitches Rust for sustainable cloud programming

Sustainability is more than where a data center gets its power from, says AWS. It's also about cloud infrastructure code efficiency via Rust.

Salesforce and AWS partner for streamlined streaming content delivery

Salesforce is bringing its Media Cloud services to Amazon's direct-to-consumer video streaming platform, AWS D2C.

Test and Measurement: Keysight reports another record quarter

Keysight Technologies reported this week that it saw all-time highs for its first-quarter revenues, earnings and orders, beating its own guidance. Among the highlights from Keysight's results for its first quarter, ending January 31, 2022: -Orders were up 22% to $1.5 billion during the...

Telstra’s 5G network covers over 77% of Australian population: CEO

Australian operator Telstra’s 5G network reached 77.5% of the country’s population as of the end of last year, the carrier’s CEO Andrew Penn said in the company’s earnings release. Penn said that Telstra’s 5G network was now more than twice the size of Telstra’s next...

CommScope secures Wi-Fi 6 deal with Vodafone Germany

CommScope announced that Vodafone Germany will deploy its Touchstone TG6442 DOCSIS 3.1 cable gateways to deliver Wi-Fi 6 performance to millions of subscribers across Germany. CommScope said that this deployment will enable Vodafone Germany to improve its customers’ in-home Wi-Fi connections and deliver faster broadband...

KDDI claims world’s first 5G Standalone Open RAN site supported by vRAN

KDDI worked with partners Samsung and Fujitsu to turn on the Open RAN site in Japan KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world's first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with Samsung and Fujitsu. Powered by...

AWS edges Local Zones globally with 32 new locations

Amazon has a two-year plan to triple its number of Local Zones, bringing low-latency edge computing services to international customers.

Wireless customers are returning to stores, JD Power survey finds

There was a notable uptick in the percentage of wireless customers who were making their purchases in stores during the second half of the 2021, according to a new survey from J.D. Power. The last two installments of the J.D. Power study of wireless...

Nvidia reports record Q4, FY21 revenue on strong data center growth

Nvidia's data center business set Q4 and FY21 records, driven by strong uptake of Nvidia's AI hardware and Ampere chip architecture.

Cisco reports higher earnings on enterprise and webscale business growth

Cisco says that secure, seamless connectivity, hybrid cloud and hybrid work, and edge computing will drive its future growth.

CSPs are behind in 5G monetization, according to Nokia survey

The Nokia survey found that only 11% of CSPs have sufficient BSS in place to meet the needs of 5G-enabled business models One of the most pressing questions around 5G is how to monetize it, and according to new research released by Nokia, communication service...

Vodafone Idea, Nokia demonstrate 5G VoNR in India

Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea says that it has successfully demonstrated 5G Voice over New Radio (VoNR) in partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia. The telco said that the demo was part of the ongoing 5G trials in the city of Gandhinagar, in Gujarat. Once deployed, the...

Keysight Technologies, Samsung partner on 6G R&D

Keysight Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Samsung Research to advance research and development of 6G technology, the former company said in a release. Keysight noted that future 6G systems are expected to be built on technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI),...

#TBT: Verizon makes a 5G mmWave call; Cyber attacks on Olympic network; Broadcom pursues Qualcomm … this week in 2018

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Verizon makes mmWave...

Juniper buys zero-trust network access startup WiteSand

Juniper has acquired WiteSand, bolstering its cloud-native zero trust security portfolio with Network Access Control (NAC).

Kubernetes “crossed the chasm” in 2021 – survey

A new report says Kubernetes is becoming invisible as it "moves up the stack" with more mature APIs and hyperscaler-managed services.

T-Mobile US expands home internet service

T-Mobile US says that it has expanded the availability of its 5G-based home internet service across new locations totaling 62 cities and towns in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In those states, T-Mo says its T-Mobile Home Internet is now an option for nearly 5 million...

What is preamble puncturing and what does it have to do with Wi-Fi 7?

Preamble puncturing makes it possible to "carve out a thin slice" of spectrum that has interference on it Preamble puncturing is an optional feature introduced in Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax that improves spectral efficiency by allowing a Wi-Fi 6 access point (AP) to transmit a...

Akamai bolsters cloud-to-edge portfolio with Linode acquisition

Akamai's $900 million Linode acquisition bolsters its cloud-to-edge services portfolio with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

European telcos say big digital platforms should help fund network infra

Heads of some of the biggest European telecommunications operators have published an open letter in the Financial Times claiming Europe’s telecoms market risks falling behind rivals, and that big tech firms needs to help fund network infrastructure deployments. The letter is jointly signed by José...

Juniper Networks, Vodafone and Parallel Wireless work on O-RAN trial

Juniper Networks announced that it is working with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless, conducting a multi-vendor Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial for tenant-aware admission control use cases. The trial, initially running in Vodafone’s test labs in Turkey and with plans to move into its...

Deutsche Telekom’s 5G network covers over 90% of Germany’s population

German telco Deutsche Telekom said that a total of over 63,000 antennas are already transmitting 5G across the country, providing coverage to over 90% of the population. In a release, the operator said that it had activated 159 new 5G locations in Germany during January. The...

Intel acquires Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion

Intel says it'll buy analog semi foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion in cash, expanding Intel's capacity to build chips.

Verizon’s Super Bowl network: Fan usage, speed up from last year

Verizon says its in-stadium fans experienced peak speeds of 3.89 Gbps during the Super Bowl In preparation Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, Verizon invested $119 million in a deployment that, among other things, included 169 new small cells, four new macro...