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Editorial Webinar: Critical edge workloads for industrial IoT — what stays and what goes?

The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...

Amazon to invest $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic

The collaboration will position Amazon Web Services as Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads Amazon said it will invest $4 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, taking a minority stake in the company, which has been an AWS customer since 2021. The collaboration...

Ericsson and Google partner on cloud RAN

A cloud-native architecture allows operators to build and run scalable applications in public, private and hybrid clouds environments Ericsson and Google Cloud are jointly developing a cloud RAN solution on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to help communications service providers (CSPs) optimize RAN infrastructure and get...

Enabling private networks – secure roaming between private and public networks

Hybrid private networks extend the controls and policies of IoT devices in local 4G and 5G networks into wider macro coverage. In other words, they enable IoT devices registered on private enterprise-owned networks to roam securely off-site on public carrier-owned infrastructure. They effectively stretch...

Careful or care-free – BT and Vodafone split the difference over generative AI

A good panel session at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen yesterday (September 19), rounding out the first early-morning keynotes, saw chief digital and technology officers from BT and Vodafone, plus others, variously discuss the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) within telecoms. In particular,...

What does the future of AIOps in telecom look like?

With AIOps growing in the telecom space, many are wondering just how much autonomy these tools will be given To keep up with growing network complexity, telcos are applying automation techniques enabled by AI and ML in as many network operations as possible. As a...

Betacom and US Cellular deliver private/public hybrid 5G networks

Betacom and US Cellular claim the hybrid 5G service is an industry first Betacom and US Cellular are claiming an industry first with their joint delivery of private/public hybrid 5G networks in the U.S. The pair said the hybrid service makes it possible for...

Nvidia bets on India with Tata Group, Reliance Industries AI partnerships

Nvidia CEO said India 'possesses size, data, and skill' necessary to be a leader in AI Nvidia announced new partnerships with Indian conglomerates Tata Group and Reliance Industries to develop language models for business and consumer AI applications, cloud infrastructure and generative services in...

Will 5G Change The World? Shekar Ayyar, Arrcus (Ep. 59)

Arrcus CEO Shekar Ayyar returns to the show to discuss Arrcus, a startup focused on bringing virtualization and abstraction to the worlds of datacenters, hybrid cloud and 5G routing and switching. Ayyar reflects on his admiration for two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, goes into...

Four trends to follow for cloud platforms in the second half of the year (Reader Forum)

The fast-tracking of cloud computing continues. According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is expected to grow by 20.7% to total $591.8 billion in 2023, up from $490.3 billion in 2022. As the CTO of BT, my team and I are embedded in...

Google, NVIDIA ‘reinvent’ cloud, computing with AI partnership

NVIDIA CEO: 'This isn’t computing the old-fashioned way; this is a whole new way of doing computing' SAN FRANCISCO - At this week’s Google Cloud Next conference, Google announced that generative AI technology from NVIDIA is now available and optimized for Google Cloud users. The...

Generative AI in ‘every single task’ — Google expands Vertex AI, Duet AI capabilities

Vertex AI and Duet AI were both unveiled at Google I/O in May SAN FRANCISCO - This week, Google announced new capabilities for its Vertex AI platform, as well as the general availability of its Duet AI assistant across its suite of Workspace apps. Vertex AI and...

Tata Communications launches cloud-based 5G roaming lab

Tata Communications said that the new 5G roaming lab is equipped with hi-tech server applications Tata Communications, which is part of India’s Tata Group, announced the launch of a global, cloud-based 5G roaming laboratory. In a release, the Indian company said that the main aim of...

Ericsson, Vodafone demo 5G SA network slicing for cloud-gaming

Thanks to network slicing, trial participants experienced a 270% increase in throughput, a 25% decrease in latency and 57% less jitter Ericsson and Vodafone demonstrated that an optimized 5G Standalone (SA) network can enhance cloud-based mobile gaming in a live network trial at Coventry University,...

Cisco to acquire Working Group Two from Telenor

Cisco helped Telenor launch Working Group Two, which offers mobile operators a cloud-based core network Cisco has revealed plans to acquire Working Group Two (WG2) from Telenor Group — which currently holds a 44.6% share in the company — for $150 million. WG2 offers mobile operators a...

What is a hybrid AI architecture?

Benefits of hybrid AI include data security, context and efficiency With generative artificial intelligence (AI) poised to permeate virtually all types of consumer and enterprise applications, network architecture becomes increasingly important. If the goal is to use AI to quickly make a decision and effect...

Who connects the dots between 5G applications and the cloud? (Reader Forum)

In our role helping Communication Service Providers (CSPs) transition to cloud-native 5G networks, there’s a problem we run into time and again. Here’s how it goes: A customer will deploy, say, a new network card for their servers. We’ll measure the performance and confirm that...

Three benefits of deploying AI at the edge

Running AI workloads at the edge enables better economics, faster decision making and automation If you look past the hype, look past the technological complexity, look past the protracted proofs of concepts, 5G is all about leveraging a high-bandwidth, low-latency air interface to move data,...

How is generative AI relevant to telecom operators? 

Discussion around generative AI has quickly become a mainstay in conference presentations and earnings calls. The predominant thinking is that if you’re an enterprise, including a mobile network operator or other communications service provider, you’ve got to have a plan to put generative AI to...

Four barriers to network slicing

Considerations include operational readiness, business case development and go-to-market strategy A logical, virtual, end-to-end network slice that automatically comes into being to serve the exacting requirements of a particular horizontal or vertical use case—that’s a big part of the vision of 5G and the monetization...

Broadcom provisionally cleared to buy VMware by UK

Broadcom announced plans to acquire VMware for $61 billion in May 2022 Following a previous delay while regulators in both Europe and the U.S. asked for more time for consideration, Broadcom’s plan to acquire VMware for $61 billion, first announced in May 2022, has received provisional approval...

Proximus to acquire India’s Route Mobile for $721 million

Proximus Opal provides cloud-based telecom platforms for enterprise customers such as Salesforce and TikTok creator Bytedance Proximus Opal, a unit of Belgian telecom service provider Proximus Group, announced plans to buy an almost 58% stake in cloud communications platform-as-a-service company Route Mobile, to the tune...

UK regulator extends review of Microsoft-Activision gaming deal

In January 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision for $68.7 billion This week saw movement around Microsoft’s ambitions to purchase game publishing giant Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) extended the deadline for a review of the...

Nokia to integrate core network applications with Red Hat infra platforms

Red Hat will serve as the primary reference platform for Nokia as it develops, tests and delivers its core network applications. Red Hat announced today that it will “tightly integrate” Nokia’s core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. The deal will also allow...