Learn how geospatial network data, coupled with cloud-based centralized control and monitoring, drives QoE and cuts opex as 5G takes shape
Telecommunications operators have access to a rich pool of customer, both consumer and enterprise, data that, if properly harnessed, can provide valuable insight into...
Power management seen as a key component to growing the small cell footprint necessary for support of telecom industry’s 5G and IoT plans.
SANTA CLARA, California – The telecommunication industry’s move towards a greater reliance on data centers to serve the needs...
A complete software- and cloud-based reorganization of how telecom networks are constructed and operated is needed to meet 5G and IoT demands.
SANTA CLARA, California – Latency and a business model were cited as two significant overhangs to the telecommunication industry’s move towards...
Huawei focus areas include connected drones, cloud VR, AR, wireless robotics and connected cars.
BARCELONA, Spain – Huawei unveiled details about the operation of its X Labs during a roundtable at the Mobile World Congress 2017. A number of companies including Intel, GE, Bosch Connected...
Orange plans to initially focus on certain verticals including health care, public transportation and smart cities.
BARCELONA, Spain – Orange Business Services identified health care, public transportation and smart cities as three key verticals the company will target with its recently launched...
The move is part of the Chinese firm to expand operations in the APAC region
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has more than doubled the capacity of its data center in Hong Kong to help the firm meet...
The vendor will offer connectivity and managed services through its WING offering
Finnish vendor Nokia has launched an IoT managed service which will be mainly oriented to the enterprise segment.
Nokia said that its new worldwide IoT network grid (WING) will offer both connectivity and management...
New BroadSoft survey of telecom operators forecasts shift to cloud for enterprise unified communications.
As digital transformation initiatives prompt major technological and operational overhauls in enterprises, unified communications systems are seen serving as the fabric that keeps increasingly distributed systems and workers connected....
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest areas of growth and transformation we have ever seen. The next step is integrating itself and working with wireless and wireline networks. This is a huge growth opportunity and the sky looks bright for the investor, worker,...
Communication Service Providers (CSP) stand at the cusp of a great divergence point for both their business models and their networks. Four generations of mobile technology, and vast increases in speed and capacity for both wireless and fixed networks, have laid the foundation for...
First-of-its-kind partnership between Ericsson and Cisco said to tap SDN, NFV and cloud in move to modernize VHA network operations.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia is set to have its core network operations virtualized through a partnership between Ericsson and Cisco Systems in a move...
The advent of hyper-connected endpoints via heterogeneous, unconventional means and the rise of cloud-based virtualization economies demand a digital business model capable of combatting increasingly-sophisticated cyberattacks, and navigating a complex, rapidly-evolving threat landscape. Today’s network security products — which are the building blocks for...
BT Compute for SAP enterprise solutions to be available for European customers in early 2017.
U.K. telco BT and T-Systems inked a collaboration agreement focused on the delivery of SAP cloud services. The agreement calls for BT to connect its customers to...
ZTE made the case to combine work on cloud and fog computing at recent ITU-T CTO event in Thailand.
In a move to combine what it sees as similar technology attributes, ZTE offered up a support for combining work being conducted in cloud...
Nokia and Vodafone claimed success from a cloud RAN trial using NFV to support macro network transition from 4G to 5G technology.
Vodafone and Nokia said they trialed a cloud-based radio access network technology designed to test the transition of a traditional...
Research firm TBR noted Microsoft and Salesforce are revenue leaders in the overall cloud space, while AWS is market leader in public cloud IaaS.
Amazon Web Services may garner a significant share of the limelight when it comes to the growing cloud...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades.
According to the release,...
Creating a connected city.
Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the "internet of things" to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the Canadian city.
Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...
Updates to Cisco Cloud-Scale Networking platform tap NFV and SDN to ease telecom operator moves towards updating central office deployments.
Cisco Systems said it has updated its IOS XR Cloud-Scale Networking platform for greater telecommunications operator support in central office deployments.
The updates include...
IDC reports India's cloud computing market will grow at a 26% CAGR through 2020.
San Francisco-based cloud computing firm Salesforce.com and its partners are looking to to drive nearly 500,000 jobs in the Indian market by 2020, India press reported.
The reports note that...
A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for "internet of things" technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed to help farmers use data to become more "productive, prosperous and viable." The goal...
The Chinese firm also aims to expand current enterprise customer base and expand its portfolio of services.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is currently studying the possibility of opening additional data centers outside China next year,...
After attending this year’s IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I was both stunned and overwhelmed by the advancements in artificial intelligence and cognitive. I have written about IBM and Watson several times over the last few years,...
Cloud security plans require telecom operators and enterprises to think about total protection processes and take into account software platforms.
Telecommunication operators are increasingly turning towards virtualized platforms in order to bolster agility, reduce costs and better position themselves to compete against...
