Designing for 5G New Radio (NR) means dealing with new technologies, as they’re being defined. It's easy to get lost in the buzz words as you try to focus--beamforming, over-air-testing, mmWave, numerology, and on and on. Keysight’s poster focuses on 7 things you need...
It comes as no surprise that Apple, Amazon, Google, Intel and many other Internet and IT industry product and service suppliers want to carry their roles forward as the direct competition between the IT and mobile industries comes head-to-head in the 5G wireless decade....
Nokia announces its AirFrame Open Edge computing server blade.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Nokia revealed its building block for edge deployments and small data centers at the NFV World Congress yesterday. The Airframe Open Edge server is compact and uses open-source software to manage network functions.
The server...
For the past few years, CSPs and optimists have been pushing the concept of 5G internet—which purports to be fast and reliable enough to replace your home internet. Already, major providers are hinting that 5G internet will be available by the end of 2018,...
Equipment vendors envisage automated networks of a million slices
The conference portion of the Brooklyn 5G Summit began with a bit of nostalgia befitting the show’s modest, but pertinent milestone of its fifth annual gathering. The show began with Marcus Weldon, Nokia's CTO and president...
Day one of Brooklyn 5G Summit balances technical presentations with business-focused "reality check" from key tech buyers
The Brooklyn 5G Summit is a deeply technical symposium held at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. Typically, tech events held at engineering schools tend to skew towards...
According to Ericsson's new study, service providers still lack of a clear strategy to target the IoT business opportunity
Revenue growth is currently the biggest driver for telecom service operators seeking to enter the internet of things space, but most of these companies lack of...
Deal stipulates the deployment of 170 small cells on lampposts across the city
AT&T and the city of San Jose have reached a tentative agreement to install a network of 170 small cells on lampposts by the end of the year in a move to...
Rural favorite LTE fixed wireless broadband — soon-to-be 5G —is forecast to grow 26% through 2022
The global fixed wireless broadband market will grow 30% in 2018 and generate $18 billion in service revenue, forecasts market analysis firm ABI Research. By 2022, worldwide fixed wireless...
Experimental technology seen as having potential for AR/VR applications in ultra-dense urban and in-building environments.
Nokia Bell Labs and NTT-DoCoMo announced that they will be demonstrating technologies aimed at showing the viability of using 5G New Radio technology for operations in the 90 GHz band. ...
Chinese firms say the new agreement will allow them to offer network slicing for IoT, internet of vehicles and industrial control
China’s second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, has signed an agreement with Huawei for the development of 5G network slicing technologies.
The two companies said they...
Cisco and IBM have completed the integration of their Kinetic platform and Watson IoT system to improve data processing and intelligence at the network edge. The partnership is being brought to bear on autonomous shipping and logistics in the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest...
Making lightweight miniature 5G mmWave components with layers of material.
Industrial component startup Integra Devices is using a process for making very small components and substrates used in 5G technology. The company’s AMALGA process produces miniature, low-cost mmWave components. Users can manufacture complex 3D microstructures in...
Telecoms vendor Ericsson and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology have joined together to explore and develop industrial applications of 5G, including the production of components for jet engines. The 5G trial system, supplied by Ericsson for the work, has achieved latency of close...
German certification body TÜV SÜD greenlights Huawei’s 5G base stations
German certification body TÜV SÜD confirmed that Huawei’s 5G base stations have fulfilled with all the technical conditions required for the deployment in the European Union, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The Chinese vendor recently...
Initiative is part of Indian government's plan to speed up the commercial 5G launches
India’s telecommunications ministry is in talks with South Korean authorities to set up joint 5G test laboratories in India, the Economic Times reports.
According to the report, the initiative was launched during...
AT&T adds parts of over 100 markets to its gigabit LTE-based 5G Evolution across the U.S.; plans 500 markets by year-end
AT&T announced on Friday that its gigabit LTE-based 5G Evolution is now in 117 additional markets, putting the LTE-based 5G Evolution in a total...
Qualcomm, NXP continue to pursue acquisition despite China's initial rejection
Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors bought more time to complete the combination of their companies by withdrawing and refiling their notice of acquisition in China. They did so at the request of the Ministry of Commerce...
The government confirmed three operators will bid for 28 blocks of spectrum in the 3.5Ghz band and 24 blocks in the 28Ghz band
The government of South Korea set the reserve price of the auction for 5G frequencies at 3.3 trillion won ($3.1 billion), according...
Chinese vendor says the restriction would also affect the interests of some U.S firms
Chinese vendor ZTE said that a U.S. ban on the sale of components and software to the company is unfair and threatens its survival but will also potentially affect the interests...
Sales at Ericsson slip as cost-cutting pays off.
Swedish vendor Ericsson saw its gross margin jump to 34.2%, from 15.7% a year ago, as its continued cost-cutting started to pay off. Revenue slipped 9%, to SEK43.4 billion (US$5bn) in the period. The company said it...
The global development of 5G hit a major milestone in December 2017 when 3GPP approved the non-standalone variant of the 5G New Radio specification. While operators around the world tested pre-standard equipment and deployment scenarios, the formal adoption set in motion concrete plans for...
T-Mobile US will bring LTE networks and 5G to military communities in support veterans and their families.
T-Mobile US will roll out 5G-ready infrastructure and invest half a billion dollars to expanding its LTE capacity around military bases in 2018. The roll out is part...
The need for interoperability
Network interoperability has become increasingly important in the telecommunications industry with the emergence network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined network (SDN). These sorts of technologies have freed customers from vendor lock-in by replacing proprietary hardware with open source software, which allow...
