Network Infrastructure

Each year Ericsson looks ahead at consumer technology trends that will likely shape the way humans interact with their devices and with each other. In its latest report, The 10 …

Editors note: This week we’ll take a look back at the 50 stories that drew the highest level of engagement from our RCR Wireless News community.  What is millimeter wave …

Hutchison 3 Indonesia embraces Nokia’s Cloud Packet Core solution Telecom service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) announced it has selected Nokia’s Cloud Packet Core solution to help manage data volume …

Cyber attack recap Cyber attacks have been on the rise in recent years. The year 2017 was no exception, with terms like “data breaches” an “malicious malware” seemingly making news …

ETSI creates ZSM group centered on management and automation ETSI announced it has created a new branch dubbed Zero touch network and Service Management Industry Specification Group (ZSM ISG), which …

Operators around the world prepping for rapid commercialization of 5G As the 3GPP works toward finalizing the 5G New Radio specification, set for mid-2018, operators, infrastructure providers and the larger …

DT selects Ericsson for ‘5G-ready’ radio access network deployment Its been a good week for network infrastructure vendor Ericsson. On Dec. 11, the company won a contract with U.S. operator …

Juniper premieres new security appliances Juniper announced a new line of network appliances and capabilities aimed at making security easier through automated policy management. The latest security capabilities include the …

A Crown Castle distributed antenna system in Chicago is the site of a new data center architecture that could change the economics of centralized radio access networks. Vapor IO, a …

Cisco, Digicel sketch digital vision for Caribbean countries with new agreement Cisco and Digicel announced they have signed a Caribbean Countries Digitalization Frame Agreement, detailing each company’s plans for advancing …

  In today’s mobile networks, revenue per transported bit is constantly decreasing, while the complexity of the network and traffic volumes are increasing. Hence, driving operational efficiency and reducing OPEX …

Bell deploys product with ONAP platform Canadian telecommunications company Bell announced it has become the first company to launch an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) …

Nokia AirScale Radio Access is ready to meet the coming communications demands of humans and machines, from extreme throughput to ultra-low latency and with wide connectivity for billions of IoT devices. …

AWS launches new cloud region in China Amazon announced Monday it is expanding its cloud computing service Amazon Web Services (AWS) in China with a local partner and launch of …

VMware and Carbon Black announce new app security solution VMware and endpoint security firm Carbon Black announced they are building on their partnership with a new security solution, which combines …

More and more Thai families choose to use broadband services. Triple T achieved high customer growth rate in Thailand for Year 2015 & 2016, this remarkable achievement show the success …

At the Operations Transformation Forum 2017, Dr. Howard Liang, Huawei Senior Vice President and Chairman of Open ROADS Community gave a speech titled “Accelerating Digital Operations Transformation”. He pointed out, …

The goal of Project AirGig is provide 1 Gbps-plus broadband using electrical utility infrastructure AT&T has been gestating Project AirGig for some time and, today, announced a milestone with trials …

IoT is an emerging technology currently in piloting and live implementation phase at a number of operators across the globe. IoT is expected to multiply the number of mobile connections …

Vermont has already decided to opt in to AT&T’s build-out of a nationwide public safety LTE network, but leaked documents from consultants’ assessments of the First Responders Network Authority plans …

IBM premieres Agile Lifecycle Manager version 1.2 IBM recently deployed Agile Lifecycle Manager (ALM) version 1.2, which provides a design, test and automated deployment platform to address technical challenges anchored …

ONF launches CORD 4.1 The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced that Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) has undergone some significant changes with the release of CORD 4.1 in …

Huawei and China Mobile submit BNG proposal to IETF Huawei and the China Mobile Research Institute submitted a standards proposal at the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) 100th meeting for …

The test, which took place in Zurich demonstrated virtual reality and 360-degree panoramic live video, among other features Swiss telco Sunrise and Chinese vendor Huawei have announced the completion of …

As the densification of LTE networks continues in advance of commercial 5G deployments–expected to pick up in the 2019-2020 timeframe, although Verizon has announced commercial 5G fixed wireless access availability …