Microsoft has signed a deal to sell its networking business Metaswitch to Utah-based cloud communications provider Alianza. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025; the fee has not been disclosed. Microsoft only acquired Metaswitch in 2020, as part of...
There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these in trial mode, but...
The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from a figure today of “more than” 1,000 private LTE deployments and 200–300 private 5G...
Lord knows what Red Hat does, exactly, if you’ll excuse the language, but Christ knows it is good to talk to. And clearly, on the interplay between cellular networking and cloud computing at the enterprise edge, it should be listened to – as the...
Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge – and how they are Collaborating and Competing with Mobile Operators at the Industrial Edge. The report is free to download, and available here – or...
So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...
Digital Colony completed acquisition of Boingo Wireless in June
Boingo Wireless CTO Derek Peterson has been articulating a message of technology convergence for the better part of a decade. In these (digital) pages, Peterson discussed convergence during CES in 2015 well before the 5G New...
This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone...
Microsoft has acquired UK-based industrial technology and rapid prototyping outfit The Marsden Group for an undisclosed fee, as it continues to fill-out its cloud, analytics, telecoms, and software portfolio for the Industry 4.0 market.
It said the deal will enhance its ability to create “new...
Qualcomm Ventures has announced new investments in four companies to help advance innovation and accelerate 5G adoption within the ecosystem.
The investments were made through Qualcomm Ventures’ 5G Ecosystem Fund.
The companies include Celona, an enterprise networking platform provider that brings 5G to enterprises; Cellwize Wireless...
Today in the United States, the three Tier 1 service providers are all offering “nationwide” 5G coverage. T-Mobile is using its 600 MHz and AT&T and Verizon are delivering with Dynamic Spectrum Sharing. And with the recent release of the iPhone 12 lineup, which...
Electronics manufacturer Inventec has deployed a 5G standalone (5G SA) network at its plant in Taiwan, to bring automation and intelligence to its production line. The setup uses networking software from Affirmed Networks, newly-acquired by Microsoft.
The setup is billed as the first software-only 5G...
Affirmed will enable the delivery of private LTE enterprise networks for 4G, 5G and IoT services
Affirmed Networks, acquired by Microsoft earlier this year, will partner with Netmore Group, an IoT systems and services provider headquartered in Sweden, to deliver Private LTE enterprise networks and...
Orange and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have demonstrated 5G network slicing in a robot-powered Industry 4.0 setup. The pair said they will expand the demo into an “end-to-end campus trial” as they plot its broader availability. HPE has also announced a new 5G lab...
Graduation greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, NC, where we virtually celebrated the college graduation of our son (Jimmy). We are proud of his accomplishments and share his excitement as he begins his software development career at Cerner Corporation (Kansas City) later this summer. Finally, a Patterson...
Last month Microsoft acquired vEPC specialist Affirmed Networks
Microsoft this week announced it has signed a definite agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks, a cloud-native virtual network functions provider that works with fixed and mobile operators. This follows Microsoft's acquisition of virtualized Evolved Packet Core vendor...
COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the ways in which we live and do business, and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future having accelerated a transition into a new way of life almost overnight.
For enterprises, this has been highly disruptive. The coronavirus...
Microsoft said the acquisition will allow the company to evolve its telecommunications work
As part of its efforts to “empower the telecommunications industry as it continues its move to 5G,” Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of cloud-based 5G service vendor Affirmed Networks for an undisclosed...
Affirmed Networks is supporting several fledgling Standalone 5G trials with its new UnityCloud solution, which it described as bringing together 5G and webscale technology on a virtualized network platform that allows operators to converge their networks onto a single core.
UnityCloud, the company said, is...
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...
NFV, SDN and mobile edge computing, all major aspects of 5G, creates an opportunity for disruption of telecom vendor ecosystem
The sheer complexity of 5G and attendant use cases--mobile AR/VR, autonomous driving, remote control of industrial robotics, etc..., presents an opportunity for infrastructure vendors to...
5G systems are expected to be built in a way to enable logical network slices, which will allow telecom operators to provide networks on an as-a-service basis and meet the wide range of use cases that the 2020 timeframe is expected to demand. In...
Affirmed Networks discusses how virtualizing the evolved packet core will facilitate 5G network slicing for the internet of things.
BARCELONA, Spain – In the race to "5G," operators are steadily implementing network functions virtualization and software-defined networking solutions to gradually gain software control...
5G is coming, but not everyone is ready. Here are 5 keys CSPs should have in place when preparing to migrate their networks
Over the next five to 10 years, we’ll see a quantum leap in technology. Delivery trucks will be replaced by flying drones....
