Key areas will include RAN, mobile roaming, user plane and telco/edge cloud
NEC and Fortinet have announced a new partnership aimed at helping Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with 5G security. Fortinet is supplying its security solutions like FortiGate, while NEC is providing professional network integration services for...
According to Ericsson, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G subscribers over the next decade
According to a new 5G cloud gaming report published by Ericsson’s strategy consulting arm inCode, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G...
Company says six markets have live deployments and 32 are customer-ready
Modular mini-data-center company Vapor IO says that its edge computing grid service is open for business in 32 markets across the U.S., with live deployments in six of those.
Vapor is playing up time-to-market...
Huawei recently held its Win-Win Innovation Week in late July 2022 in Shenzhen, China. After a flurry of presentations on a wide range of topics, it is possible to see how the telco landscape will continue to evolve over the next three to five...
The APAC expansion complements Google Cloud’s AMEA and LATAM buildouts
Google Cloud announced this week plans to set up new regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. The expansion will help to address burgeoning cloud demand in those countries and will address data residency and compliance standards,...
The deal will also enable AT&T to consolidate its existing data centers and modernize its operations
AT&T has tapped Oracle to provide additional cloud capacity and capabilities. AT&T already runs database and application workloads in Oracle Cloud, but the latest five-year deal will build on...
The 3GPP has defined an enabling layer to facilitate communication between the Application Clients and the Edge Application Servers
The latest iterations of 3GPP standards have placed added emphasis on support for edge computing, a distributed computing framework that brings computation and data storage...
Splunk, AWS, Broadcom lead the charge around the new framework effort, announced at a Las Vegas hacker conference
More than a dozen companies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Broadcom and data analytics firm Splunk are throwing their weight behind the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) Project. The...
Prelim earnings miss guidance by more than $1 billion
After the markets closed on Monday, Nvidia released preliminary financial results for its FY23 second quarter, which ended on July 31, 2022. The news is worse than Nvidia told investors it would be, and even worse than most...
The majority of 5G SA network deployments will stick to telco cloud, a new report asserts.
The revenue for 5G workloads hosted on public cloud services will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 88% between now and 2026, totaling $4.6 billion over that...
The FortiGate 4800F sports 2.4 Tbps throughput and hardware-accelerated VXLAN and DDoS protection.
Fortinet on Wednesday introduced a compact Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) targeted at hyperscale data centers and 5G networks. The FortiGate 4800F occupies four rack units while providing up to 2.4 terabits per second...
CNCF sees increasing Kubernetes traction in telecom
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has published the results of what it calls a “microsurvey” of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to gauge their progress developing cloud-native network functions and customer applications. The report frames the use of Kubernetes in...
The acquisition draws Arista closer to Ericsson, said Arista’s CEO
Arista Networks announced this week that it has acquired unified cloud network company Pluribus Networks, developers of unified cloud networking technology. Arista's COO, Anshul Sadana, said the move will bolster its efforts to develop next-generation...
Switching to cloud-based BSS took two and a half years, but was seamless – U Mobile CIO
Whale Cloud has announced the completion of its migration of Malaysian telco U Mobile’s Business Support Systems (BSS) to a cloud-native environment. The process took two and a half...
SASE and SSE services are available using Secure Gateways hosted by Equinix
Comcast Business on Monday announced a partnership with enterprise security firm Fortinet to deliver Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE) solutions as managed services to Comcast Business customers. The new services...
'We know AWS is a huge opportunity,' said the CFO
Amazon reported second quarter results after the bell on Thursday, posting revenue of $121.2 billion, higher than the $119.5 billion analysts expected. The company reported a net loss of 20 cents per share for the quarter, worse...
Search and Cloud are driving the business, said execs
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, on Tuesday posted second-quarter earnings that narrowly missed Wall Street estimates. The company reported $69.69 billion in revenue, 13% higher year over year, mostly in line with estimates. Net income was $16...
Foreign exchange pressures and Russia cost Redmond, but cloud revenue increased 28% to $25 billion
Microsoft Corp. announced earnings Tuesday for the quarter ending June 30, 2022, offering up its slowest revenue growth since 2020. The company with $51.9 billion in revenue, up 12% Year over Year...
The new integrations automate the setup and deployment of firewall services to protect inbound and outbound public cloud traffic
Alkira announced Tuesday a new partnership with cybersecurity company Fortinet to integrate Alkira’s Cloud Area Networking infrastructure with Fortinet products. The new cloud security integration helps automate...
'Operators must prioritize the construction of more efficient and agile ICT infrastructure': Huawei exec
Huawei last week presented its newest telco cloud vision at its Carrier Cloud Transformation Summit, part of the company’s Win-Win Huawei Innovation Week, an online and in-person event that took place...
5G SA give CSPs the ability to test, deploy and scale new services at hyperscaler velocity, but the cloud-native design presents operational challenges
5G Standalone (SA) is very much a double-edged sword when it comes to network operations. Experts see 5G SA as, in some...
The third Latin America region will join Santiago and São Paulo
Google Cloud has announced plans to open a new Mexico region. The effort is part of the company’s $1.2 billion, five-year planned expansion throughout Latin America. When the new Mexico region launches, it will Google’s...
Azure makes it easier to see and use OCI databases, at no extra charge
Oracle and Microsoft announced this week the release of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure. The new service, the latest cloud collaboration between the two enterprise software giants, enables Azure customers to provision,...
Kubernetes as a lynchpin for network automation at scale
Zero-touch network automation needs to be employed at every level of the 5G stack in order for 5G Standalone (SA) services to work as envisioned. 5G SA will bring considerable benefits to customers, but it also...
