Biggest change in 5G core reflected in mission critical communications
In December the 3GPP adopted the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification and, following a meeting last week in South Korea, the group is poised next month to freeze contributions to the standalone 5G NR...
ETSI's Open Source MANO (OSM) release 4.0 is lighter weight, more mature
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute responsible for European Union telecom standards, announced Release 4 of its Open Source MANO (management and orchestration) standard last week. ETSI is billing OSM 4.0 as a lighter,...
Incoming 5G technologies will put industrial applications front and centre, and enable new functionalities in critical communications, according to IHS Markit.
The research house told Enterprise IoT Insights at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin last week 5G will impact industrial space in the way...
A free-wheeling NI Week keynote panel discussed self-driving cars issues
A physicist, a semiconductor salesman and a lawyer all met on a stage at NI Week -- sounds like the beginning of a bad joke involving a bar. Instead it was National Instruments’ keynote panel...
Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says
While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use cases speak to enablement of massive internet of things (IoT) deployments and ultra reliable low...
Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says
While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use cases speak to enablement of massive internet of things (IoT) deployments and ultra-reliable, low-latency communications...
Although Qualcomm has been doing AI research for more than 10 years, a dedicated R&D unit will help to coordinate AI development efforts across the company
In a week where Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Intel are all holding simultaneous artificial intelligence (AI) developer conferences, Qualcomm announced...
Five-year old accelerator The Fabric focusing on cloud, IoT, 5G continues to build.
Two advisors are joining The Fabric, the five-year old Mountain View, Calif.-based startup fund and “co-creation foundry." The new advisors are Pankaj Patel, former EVP and CDO with Cisco, and Alan Boehme,...
Agreement backed by a group of Nordic vendors and telcos including Ericsson, Nokia, Telenor and Telia
The prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have signed a letter of intent to foster the development and adoption of 5G technologies.
“The Nordic region is one...
Some people have both a front-row seat and a behind-the-scenes view of the launch of 5G. The test and engineering tool company National Instruments is one of them. Particularly Sarah Yost, a senior solutions marketer for 5G at National Instruments.
Not only is her team...
What path convoluted path will 5G take in Houston before we can call it full-blown 5G?
The city of Houston, Texas will have full-blown 5G network service by 2020, reported the Houston Chronicle on Monday. The article reassures frustrated readers who suffer slow connectivity, that...
Charlie Ergen casually made 5G announcement at Connect X
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina--During a keynote session at the Wireless Infrastructure Association's Connect X event, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen put out the company's plan to invest a staggering $10 billion on a nationwide 5G network build.
This builds...
The API (application programming interface) is where we need to concentrate to get customers hooked on 5G.
Cisco’s CTO of Mobility Business thinks the API (application programming interface) may be more important for the success of 5G than anything else.
“If 5G is going to be...
Explosive applications growth. Massive bandwidth needs. Enabling 5G network densification for both fixed and mobile wireless is a high priority for operators.
The use of millimeter microwave technologies is rapidly gaining traction to support fixed broadband connections encompassing a broad range of wireless applications related...
Densifying the networks with small cells is a key part to making 5G a reality, but the most dense small cell networks are still in 4G.
Network densification has been used in 4G LTE for a while. As the 3GPP standards committee meets in Busan,...
Mobile Edge Cloud, Mobile Edge Computing, Multi-Access Edge Computing. These are all names for basically the same concept that Wikipedia defines as, "a network architecture concept that enables cloud computing capabilities and IT service environment at the edge of the cellular network." Regardless of...
Telefonica said carriers launching the technology before that year will probably need to update software and equipment
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica is unlikely to announce the commercial launch of 5G services prior to 2020 since any equipment used would have to be changed and the...
Disruption of cable TV space is priority of a combined Sprint/T-Mobile US
From an ongoing attempt to block the AT&T/Time Warner merger to concerted efforts to keep Chinese network infrastructure players Huawei and ZTE out of the U.S. market, current federal regulatory and policy leaders...
In this installment of network slicing 101, we’ll take a look at the basics of network slicing as it relates to both 4G and 5G use cases
Network slicing is often viewed as a single concept within 5G, wholly dependent on 5G networks. However, while...
Verizon sees four key elements of 5G: Fber, spectrum, sites and software
Speaking with analyst Craig Moffett during the recent MoffetNathanson Media and Communications Summit, Verizon EVP, CTO and President of Global Networks Hans Vestberg discussed the right balance between costly spectrum acquisition and investing...
FirstNet build also supports growth in consumer market
Using its deployment of FirstNet to provide a dedicated, nationwide network to first responders, AT&T can reach deeper into rural consumer markets that typically fall to chief competitor Verizon, according to AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan. Speaking...
Qualcomm tells world that its FSM product line will include 5G NR for small cells, multi-gigabit throughput.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced that it will offer a 5G NR version of its 3G and 4G FSM technology for small cells and remote radio heads at the...
Deutsche Telekom planning commercial 5G services in 2020
Deutsche Telekom urged the German authorities to auction frequencies for 5G services on reasonable terms to ensure that there is enough money left over to invest in infrastructure.
"We can only spend each euro once - either on...
Globally 3.5 GHz is a 5G band, but not in the U.S.
To deliver multi-gigabit-per-second throughputs associated with 5G, operators around the world are working with regulatory authorities to test and commercially deploy in an increasingly variable mix of spectrum. The key driver shaping spectral...
