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Verizon Business strengthens cloud, NaaS offering with RingCentral partnership

Verizon Business CEO: 'The work-from-anywhere model will continue to be a major factor for businesses' Verizon Business and RingCentral are teaming up to deliver a co-branded, cloud-based enterprise communication service that will integrate team messaging, video meetings and a cloud phone system. According to Verizon,...

Vodafone, Google Cloud to develop global platform to ‘drive data analytics, insights and learnings’

According to Vodafone and Google Cloud, the data platform can process around 50 terabytes of data per day Vodafone and Google Cloud recently expanded an existing agreement to jointly build a new integrated data platform with the added capability of processing and moving huge volumes...

Is cloud the great equalizer? Q&A with Deloitte about bridging the digital divide

Deloitte provides three reasons that the U.S. digital divide remains Following the digital divide wake-up call prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the reveal of President Joe Biden's sweeping infrastructure plan, RCR Wireless News spoke with Deloitte Consulting's Chief Cloud Strategy Officer David Linthicum and...

Michael Dell sees edge opportunity in the ‘do anything from anywhere world’

Dell Tech World focused on tech-enablement of "do anything from anywhere world" Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell kicked off the second virtual installment of the company's Dell Tech World on Wednesday with a reflection on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic with an emphasis on...

‘Leveling the technology playing field’: Nokia, NewCore bring 5G broadband to US tribal nations

The initial Nokia, NewCore deployment will connect more than 15,000 tribal members Nokia and NewCore Wireless are leveraging 117 megahertz of the Tribal Educational Broadband Service (EBS) spectrum to bring 5G broadband connectivity to rural, unserved and underserved Native American communities throughout the U.S....

Dish to build its 5G network on AWS’ cloud

Dish Network will rely on Amazon Web Services as the foundation for its cloud-based 5G network, the two companies announced today. Dish and AWS have signed a strategic collaboration agreement, the latest in a string of announcements from Dish as it gears up for...

Q&A with Verizon: How 5G and MEC are transforming healthcare

5G and MEC allow healthcare data to be processed at a much higher rate While IoT has become a household term, IoMT or the Internet of Medical Things, isn't as well known. IoMT represents a subcategory of IoT that encompasses the connections and devices within...

AT&T to build private 5G mmWave network on UConn campus

AT&T and UConn will complete the private 5G network by summer 2021 AT&T is deploying a private 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) network and Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) technology at the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Stamford campus to help “advance academic programs that will explore new use cases...

Dell Technologies to get $9 billion-plus infusion with VMware spin-off

Dell Technologies and VMware will “continue to co-engineer solutions” Dell Technologies, which holds an 81% ownership stake of cloud and virtualization giant VMware, announced on April 14 it will spin-off its ownership of VMware. "By spinning off VMware, we expect to drive additional growth opportunities for Dell...

The final ‘miracle’: NVIDIA Omniverse allows enterprises to build virtual worlds

During his opening keynote address at NVIDIA GTC, the company’s Founder and CEO Jensen Huang characterized artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G as “ingredients” necessary to “kickstart the fourth industrial revolution.” He added, however, that we are still in need of a final “miracle.” Cue the...

Verizon, AWS expand partnership, bring private MEC to enterprise customers

The dedicated MEC platform is fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon's 5G private network Enterprise customers interested in a dedicated, on-premises edge compute infrastructure can now look to Verizon Business and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The companies are expanding their 5G collaboration in...

The three layers of Rakuten Communications Platform

Etisalat signs memorandum of understanding to use Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN networks Last week Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) tapped Airspan as a 4G and 5G hardware/software vendor, and this week RCP announced it's working with Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat to develop a "reference...

Singtel, SK Telecom test interconnected 5G MEC with cloud gaming demo

In 2021, cloud gaming revenue is expected to be over $1 billion for the first time Bridge Alliance, which is made up of operators and their customers in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, announced that two alliance members, SK Telecom and SingTel, have successfully completed the...

Well, technically… 5G will significantly increase entry points for security threats: Nokia’s Mona Noor (Ep. 33)

Mona Noor, a product manager at Nokia, dives into some of the biggest security threats our networks will have to deal with in a 5G era, compares the inherent security of cloud and on-premise servers and explains why home IoT devices aren't built to...

Three’s a cloud: Nokia allies with hyperscaler triumvirate to accelerate enterprise 5G

Nokia partnering with Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft to bring open and cloud RAN to the edge with both operator and private enterprise networks In October last year, Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark, in addition to sharing Q3 financials and giving a first-look at an organizational...

5G and MEC let Super Bowl fans join in on the game from their phones

Verizon's MEC platform moves AWS compute and storage services to the edge of the network Days before this year’s Super Bowl at Miami’s Raymond James Stadium, Verizon Vice President of Device Technology Brian Mecum told RCR Wireless News that fans will have access to a...

The present and future of network automation

As 5G continues its evolution toward broad digital enablement of the enterprise, the proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in networks will be a crucial part of service provider strategies. For infrastructure, increasingly automated deployment, configuration and management accelerates time-to-revenue as closed technology...

After just two years, Google’s gaming gambit goes aground

Google will no longer make games in-house for its Stadia gaming platform It’s been two nearly years since Google launched its Stadia gaming platform designed specifically for streaming. At the time of the launch, Google also announced Stadia Games and Entertainment (SG&E), its internal game...

Verizon and Deloitte to help ‘unlock’ retail data with 5G, MEC platform

Verizon Business and Deloitte hope to help retail locations “unlock” in-store data with a 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) digital platform that is designed to deliver real-time analytics to improve customer engagement, inventory efficiency and associate productivity. When combined with sensor-based analytics, artificial intelligence...

COVID-19 sent 2020 cloud infrastructure revenue through the roof

Synergy Research Group Analyst: '2020 ended with a bang for the cloud infrastructure market' Enterprises spent more than $37 billion on cloud infrastructure services in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to data from Synergy Research Group. The results represent a $4 billion increase from...

MEC in a box: Dell, SK Telecom, VMware product partnership

Teased at Dell Tech World, OneBox MEC targets private networks; companies call out healthcare, retail, construction industries After teasing a potential collaboration focused on mobile edge computing during Dell Tech World last year, it's now official: Korea's SK Telecom, Dell Technologies and VMware are working...

Verizon exec: The tech experience at Super Bowl LV is going to be ‘off-the-charts cool’

Verizon has outfitted the Super Bowl stadium with 5G and Mobile Edge Computing Last year’s Super Bowl, which took place at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, was pretty different than what’s in store for this year’s event. On February 7th, the Kansas City Chiefs...

Cloud gaming to surpass $1 billion in revenue for first time, according to some estimates

The growth of cloud gaming can be attributed to 5G technology 2021 is expected to be a big year for cloud gaming, with the current revenue outlook coming in at over $1 billion for the first time, about double what it was raking in last...

Verizon, Unity partner to enable 5G and MEC consumer, enterprise applications

Verizon’s Director of IoT: 'The idea is to use 5G and MEC to solve new types of challenges' Verizon and Unity are partnering up to develop new digital experiences across a wide range of applications including within an enterprise as well as within the entertainment...