SCADA and its use cases.
Nearly everywhere you look, there is some type of supervisory control and data acquisition system running behind the scenes, at your local supermarket, refinery, waste water treatment plant or even your own home. SCADA is an automation...
MVNO set to use O2 and China Unicom network infrastructure.
China Unicom Global launched its CUniq mobile virtual network operator service in the U.K., which is offered with its one card, multiple number service that allows customers to buy a SIM card abroad...
Arrow to market and sell network services tailored for customer applications.
Arrow Electronics inked an agreement with Vodafone to market the latter’s “internet of things” services as part of its EVolve IoT offering.
The agreement between the two companies creates a new offering...
Uber is rapidly acquiring startups as it gears up for a future filled with autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Yesterday, the company announced the purchase of an artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence to provide the core for a new central AI lab being established in Uber’s...
"5G" antennas are expected to be smaller, more numerous and part of more high-gain systems than those that have served 3G and 4G systems, and they will need more advanced steering and scanning techniques in order to function well at millimeter wave frequencies.
Jeff Shamblin,...
Nokia unveiled a “templating system” it said is based on ETSI NFV, TOSCA and OpenStack specs designed to simplify VNF management and orchestration.
The exceedingly complicated process of virtual network function lifecycle management could be gaining some help with Nokia publishing what...
NFV and SDN deployments remain sporadic, though development advances have bolstered platforms with the focus now on making them work better.
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Michael Brenner, chief architect for Network Functions Virtualization at Gigaspaces, to discuss the firm's growing...
AT&T encountered some issues during the launch of its DirecTV Now platform this week, while Sprint kicked some sand in the face of 600 MHz spectrum.
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A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for "internet of things" technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed to help farmers use data to become more "productive, prosperous and viable." The goal...
PwC’s Strategy& division looks at the impact the removal of smartphone subsidies and new era of used devices and trade-ins is having on carriers and OEMs.
The domestic cellular market has witnessed a wave of new operating models highlighted by the push from...
Sigfox announced earlier this month it is closing a $160 million (150 million euros) funding round it intends to use on expansion of its low power wide area network. Companies including Salesforce, Total, Henri Seydoux, Alto Invest, Swen CP and Tamer Group joined existing shareholders...
Edge Computing Consortium members include Huawei, Intel, ARM and Chinese institutions.
Chinese vendors, together with Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Intel, ARM and ISoftStone established the Edge Computing Consortium in Beijing. The...
Nokia was very busy 1 year ago this week, with the vendor closing on the sale of its Here mapping unit, while shareholders approved its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
Nokia closes $3 billion sale of Here mapping unit
Telecom solutions powerhouse Nokia completed the sale...
What is machine learning and what can it do?
You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...
Fresh food: A growing use case for machine learning.
Machine learning can help retailers address the challenges of offering fresh foods, which account for up to 40% of a grocers’ revenue and one-third of the cost of goods sold, according to a...
U.K. mobile operator EE and Huawei said they reached mobile broadband speeds of 2.1 gigabits per second over an LTE-Advanced network in a recent lab test.
"We are committed to innovating and to be pushing the mobile industry forward by delivering ground breaking mobile speeds...
MQTT and the internet of things.
MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Its design principles are to...
On the road to 5G, the Chinese vendor looks to carry out new trials of massive MIMO technology next year.
TOKYO – ZTE is in talks with Japanese mobile operators to carry out trials of massive multiple-input/multiple-output antenna technology next year, according to Leo Chao,...
Audi’s Ingolstadt, Germany, factory is its largest and the second largest in Europe, producing 566,646 cars in 2015. It is where the auto manufacturer produces its A3, A4, A5, Q2 and Q5 models and is considered by the company as its "most important location." The...
Cloud security plans require telecom operators and enterprises to think about total protection processes and take into account software platforms.
Telecommunication operators are increasingly turning towards virtualized platforms in order to bolster agility, reduce costs and better position themselves to compete against...
We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company's view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible coverage. France-based Qowisio offers...
What is CEP?
Complex event processing is an emerging network technology commonly used in the "internet of things" that uses distributed message-based systems, databases and applications to derive conclusions from data in real time or near-real time. It is a kind of computing in which...
Defining digital transformation.
Digital transformation is a term that has reached just about every company in every industry. It has been debated by analysts, thought leaders and executives. Digital transformation is a broad concept for the fundamental transformation of companies to a more technology reliant...
Cloud access security brokers are seen as one way telecom operators can ensure robust protection as they venture into the cloud.
With telecom operators increasing their reach into cloud environments, steps need to be taken in order to ensure such moves do...
