End-to-end fronthaul testing, as well as isolation testing, provide the big picture and granular data needed to drive Open RAN adoption
Given one of the primary goals of Open RAN—providing architectural flexibility by breaking up the centralized unit (CU), distributed unit (DU) and radio unit...
The growing risk of outages in complex IT environments
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, ensuring the reliability and stability of network operations has never been more critical. As networks become more complex and data surges, the risk of outages looms large, threatening to disrupt...
Telcos are under increasing pressure to scale their network operations and to see the return on their 5G investments
As telecommunications providers continue the shift towards multi-vendor, multi-cloud and cloud-native architectures, their operations are only become more and more complex. There is increasing need to...
Telefonica also said it is currently using Google Cloud internally to advance in its own digital transformation
Spanish carrier Telefonica and Google Cloud announced the renewal and extension of their partnership to help businesses accelerate their digital transformations.
The European operator noted that the agreement includes...
US car maker Tesla has just released a 78 second video about a private 5G network at its Berlin autoplant, and the whole of social media has exploded; or at least, the tech commentariat on certain channels has shared and remarked as if it...
Spirent is already taking steps to automate service assurance in carrier networks
At the recent Test & Measurement Forum, Spirent Communications Senior Director of Assurance Strategy Ross Cassan laid out key networking trends that are impacting service assurance and how the company is amending its...
Quality data, digital twins and AI/ML will all help operators enable end-to-end automation in a multi-cloud environment
Managing the complex components of a multi-cloud environment is proving to be a monumental challenge for network operators, especially coupled with the growing need for automation techniques driven...
Examples of how operators are using AI today include network anomaly detection and root cause analysis
Telecom companies have been using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in their operations for years. However, the current telco environment sets the stage for further innovation around...
The proposed cuts represent 13% of the Vodafone workforce in Germany
This week Vodafone Germany revealed plans to cut and relocate approximately 2,000 jobs over the next two years in a $434 million cost-saving effort. The carrier has roughly 15,000 employees in Germany, which means...
From vertical stacks to open, horizontal networks
As it continues to grow its Telecom Systems Business, Dell Technologies announced ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona solutions that address ongoing operator efforts to broadly modernize, cloudily and automate network infrastructure and management processes. Dell’s telecom...
Think Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny: "What is a git anyways?"
The move to 5G Standalone is afoot, and operators are working out the kinks of instantiating network slices tuned to the needs of particular end user applications. In the broader move...
The world is in a perpetual upgrade cycle driven by advances in all areas of technology. Customers must understand their needs if they are to optimize the cost and performance of their networks when choosing when and what to purchase. The wireless industry faces...
As we embark on the journey into 2024, the telecom landscape stands at the threshold of a profound transformation:
In the realm of technology convergence, envision cloud computing, container/microservices architecture edge computing and CI/CD practices blending seamlessly for the 5G crescendo, akin to technological Avengers...
5G Standalone (5G SA) Core creates impact by enabling new services and new efficiencies that deliver 5G’s exciting capabilities and performance levels. In 2023, I worked with communications service providers (CSPs) and hyperscalers committing to 5G Standalone Core solutions, helped the launch of enterprise...
The mission at ECSite is to empower the workforce, break data silos, and embrace the future of technology in telecom. In this episode, we sit down with the visionary Subbu Meiyappan, the CEO and Founder of ECSite, to explore the world of digitizing the...
Siemens has announced a new $150 million smart factory in Dallas-Fort Worth in the US to supply electrical equipment to US data centers and critical infrastructure. The new facility will make use of sundry Siemens-made IoT and AI software tools, notably to support digital...
At an Industry 4.0 showcase at the MxD Institute, Betacom, Google Cloud and Ingram Micro discussed the importance of collaboration
Last week, RCR Wireless News attended an Industry 4.0 showcase at the Factory Floor Lab in the Digital Manufacturing (MxD) Institute in Chicago, where private...
BT said the multi-cloud network will help its customers better use digital automation and AI
BT announced the launch of Global Fabric, an international network based on a network-as-a service (NaaS) model and designed to connect multi-cloud environments in a “flexible, scalable and resilient” way....
US energy and automation conglomerate Honeywell has reorganised its business into four separate units, with enhanced focus on industrial automation, in order to realign with what it perceives as three global economic “megatrends” – being automation, aviation, and energy. The firm has folded its...
To keep up with growing network complexity, telcos are applying automation techniques enabled by AI and ML in as many network operations as possible
As 5G continues to evolve, it also continues to become more complex. Virtualization and disaggregation are happening in tandem with deployment...
It's important to look at AI holistically and to not rule out more traditional machine learning models, says Google Cloud’s VP/GM Sachin Gupta
Anything can be AI (Artificial Intelligence), Google Cloud’s VP/GM Sachin Gupta, told RCR Wireless News at Google Cloud Next, which took place last week...
When we talk about 5G innovation, often the discussion defaults to the end-customer use cases rather than the network itself. Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things are prime examples of the innovations being driven by 5G's capabilities; autonomous vehicles and smart city applications...
NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country's Thailand 5.0 scheme
Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge compute...
The metaverse has captured significant attention in recent years. Indeed, this immersive digital realm has inspired us to transcend physical limitations and explore new experiential opportunities. From Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) gaming to virtual concerts, the metaverse provides unique and interactive...
