Network Infrastructure

Los Angeles, Calif. — Jono Bacon, founder of Jono Bacon Consulting, delivered a keynote presentation titled “The Impact of the Ecosystem” at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America …

Los Angeles, Calif. — Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, had a conversation with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux kernel and Git, at the Open Source Summit North …

Los Angeles, Calif. — Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source at SUSE, and chairman of the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors, delivered a keynote presentation …

Millimeter wave is seen as a key part of 5G given the massive capacity associated with the high-band spectrum. But, millimeter wave comes with a number of propagation challenges. Right …

SoftBank target use cases include tele-health, tele-education, factory automation, AR and VR Japanese telco SoftBank has partnered with Chinese vendor Huawei to demonstrate potential 5G use cases for its enterprise …

ABI Research says open source communities and individual telcos are fueling development in Asia-Pacific NFV market As telecom service providers in Asia-Pacific continue to virtualize their network architecture, a new …

LAA demonstration, which builds on field tests, is set for Mobile World Congress Americas Earlier this year AT&T worked with infrastructure vendor Ericsson on a field trial of License Assisted …

PwC principal: Line between LTE and 5G is ‘blurry’ In the run up to the inaugural Mobile World Congress Americas, kicking off Sept. 12 in San Francisco, Dan Hays, a …

T-Mobile, Nokia, Qualcomm hit 1.175 Gbps in test Who says you have to wait for 5G to get gigabit-plus-per-second speeds to your mobile device? As operators continue to advance their …

To combat the growing threat of cyber intrusions, VMware introduces new security tool that monitors data center applications Data centers are challenged to combat the growing threat of cyber intrusions. …

Gigabit LTE coming alive with carrier aggregation, massive MIMO and NFV With major global operators competing to offer end users affordable, unlimited access to mobile data, more than two dozen …

The non-standalone variant of the 5G New Radio standard is set for finalization in December, an accelerated timeline agreed to earlier this year and meant to speed delivery of commercial …

Millimeter wave spectrum provides the kind of capacity that 5G promises, but it comes with tricky propagation characteristics. Right now, particularly in the U.S., operators are tapping millimeter wave spectrum …

ETSI interoperability plugtests help technical committees develop global standards for NFV platforms The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is set to host the second Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Plugtests event from …

ZTE is collaborating with international and Chinese operators for the development of AI technologies ZTE has released its artificial intelligence (AI) solution which will allow telecommunications operators build next generation …

Nokia product launches focus on digital transformation for the enterprise Cellular connectivity is essential for an always-on enterprise whether it’s supporting a global sales team or internet of things-type deployments …

WBA sees Wi-Fi as a major influence on 5G visions being laid out for cellular systems What will be the role of Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum in a 5G world? …

VMware joins forces with Frame to deliver Windows apps to Workspace One users VMware recently announced a partnership with Frame that will enable Workspace One users to stream Windows apps …

Liberty Global intends to deploy Juniper Networks vMX virtual route reflectors to streamline operations and decrease cost of ownership Juniper Networks announced Liberty Global, the world’s largest international TV and …

Sprint adds new vendors as part of nationwide network functions virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment Sprint announced it is collaborating with Metaswitch and Mavenir as part of its nationwide network functions …

The vendor is one of the members of the IMT-2020 Promotion Group, which leads 5G efforts in China Huawei announced it has achieved a peak cell throughput of 20 Gbps …

Self-organizing small cell, upgraded remote radio head, SDN-enabled microwave backhaul also included in Nokia launch The run-up to Mobile World Congress Americas, kicking off Sept. 12 in San Francisco, has …

inUAVi, an innovative start-up in the drone radio frequency monitor and sensor market, has announced availability of an RF measurement instrument for use from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) that collects …

Huawei and Microsoft join forces to expand cloud app portfolio Microsoft and Huawei have signed a memorandum of understanding, which will bring the former’s applications to the latter’s public cloud. …

Are containers taking over? Virtual machines have taken the spotlight on the telecom stage within the last few years, but the technology is by no means a one-man show. Containers, …