Cisco inks deals with Verizon, Sprint, KT, Rakuten, Softbank and Airtel
BARCELONA--Cisco kicked off Mobile World Congress by touting its 5G prowess, both in terms of technology and operator contract wins. Cisco said it has 40 service providers actively trialing and deploying its 5G offerings,...
What are the challenges for service assurance -- and visibility and observability -- as networks evolve toward virtualization, multi-cloud environments and edge computing?
Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise...
SAP executives discuss the data demands operators will face in bringing 5G to market
Enhanced mobile broadband will allow mobile users to more quickly consume more data, while massive support for the internet of things and ultra reliable low latency communications will similarly push a...
China and South Korea are the top markets in terms of IoT adoption within the region, according to the study
Spending on the internet of things in the Asia/Pacific region excluding Japan (APEJ) is forecasted to reach $381.8 billion by 2022, according to a new...
Turkcell said it is delivering new services at least three months faster than it could with its legacy infrastructure
Affirmed Networks is offering some insights into how it helped Turkish mobile network operator Turkcell with the rapid deployment of one of the largest commercial network...
As virtualization changes networks, the network and service assurance market is changing as well
Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications -- both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications -- are becoming virtualized.
The network function virtualization market...
Plugtest event focused on SDN for mmWave transmission
ETSI recently held its first testing event focused on software-defined networking for millimeter wave transport, and the participating vendors were able to achieve 100% interoperability, according to the standards body -- and it was completed in half...
Verizon was able to cut its network latency in half in a test that combined its 5G Radio Access Network, multi-access edge computing and its virtualized network platform.
Low latency, the carrier said, "will be increasingly vital as next generation wireless experiences emerge."
In Houston, where...
AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. It is the second time in a few months the company has released source...
As enterprises seek to modernize and digitalize their operations, application and cloud integration issues are costing about half of large enterprises between $250,000-$500,000 per year, according to a new survey -- and 4% of respondents reported that poor integration costs their business as much...
Vodafone Business and IBM are creating a new venture to target the connectivity, multi-cloud and data needs of enterprises as they more broadly utilize the internet of things.
The "eight-year engagement," as the deal was described, is valued at about $550 million.
The new venture, which...
The increasing virtualization of telecom networks offers the promise of faster launches of new services. But are back-end business and operational systems ready to support the flexibility and rapid services launches that SDN/NFV is supposed to provide?
Now that operators are past their first steps toward...
Bsquare selected AWS as it preferred cloud services provider for its DataV suite
Industrial internet of things company Bsquare says it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to meet the increasing demand for IIoT solutions.
Bsquare has selected AWS as its preferred cloud services provider and...
Network monitoring and visualization deal to support CSP's network integration and automation
As EXFO reported its quarterly results today, the company also dropped the news that it has won a deal worth $4.9 million with an unnamed Tier One service provider in the U.S., to...
Calgary based industrial AI and IoT provider Osprey Informatics has raised $2.75 million ($3.75 CAD) from Shell Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Royal Dutch Shell, and Evok Innovations, the Silicon Valley startup fund. The investment round also saw participation also from InterGen Capital...
Windstream bought Earthlink in 2017 for $1.1 billion
After buying Earthlink less than two years ago for $1.1 billion, Windstream has jettisoned the consumer business, selling it to a private equity firm for $330 million.
This is Windstream's third asset sale in a month, with the...
SAP and Software AG said they have developed the new smart city platform in compliance with the standards of the EU’s open urban platform initiative
German software companies SAP and Software AG announced a cooperation agreement for the development of an open smart city platform.
The...
O2’s CEO Mark Evans would meet with Ericsson’s executives this week to negotiate a compensation package which could reach up to $126 million
U.K. telecom operator O2 could receive compensation of up to £100 million ($125 million) from Swedish vendor Ericsson following a network outage...
Siemens-owned software company Mentor Graphics has released a new design platform for engineers to twin and test printed circuitboard (PCB) prototypes virtually, before they are put into production, as the basis of embedded systems in assorted IoT devices.
The new platform, called Xpedition, provides the...
AI/ML can provide location data used to optimize wireless performance
Wireless networks are becoming increasingly complex and, with 5G looming, that will only continue as the mix and density of devices, as well as variability in application requirements, grows. A key to managing this complexity...
One of the areas of focus for CableLabs, the cable industry's research and development group, is in how to improve the security of internet of things devices -- both those that are already in users' homes, and those that will emerge in the near...
Vodafone, Telefónica to pilot disaggregated RAN
The broad goal of the Telecom Infra Project is to take the cost out of crucial network infrastructure by disaggregating hardware and software and moving functionality onto commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. By pushing open interoperability between vendors, along with the move...
Orange Poland early adopter of ONAP
As it continues a "bricky-by-brick" approach to 5G, Orange Poland recently worked with EXFO to incorporate passive virtual probes into the Beijing Release of the Open Network Automation Platform; the goal is service assurance for virtualized network deployments.
According to...
Manufacturing, transportation, retail—that's the supply chain
Blockchain is largely associated with the mysterious world of cryptocurrency, but AT&T sees significant value in applying the generalized ledger that supports blockchain to other use cases, particularly supply chain management. During the AT&T Business Summit in Dallas, Texas,...
