The new facilities will be located in Washington DC, Palo Alto, Waltham and Los Angeles
Verizon will open four new 5G Labs this year, with the aim of accelerating the development of 5G use cases.
The carrier said that the new 5G Labs – to be...
Las Vegas, in Nevada, is using artificial intelligence to detect and fix issues within its IT systems, including those underpinning its various smart city projects. California-based FixStream said its deal with Las Vegas is the first implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations...
Over the last decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has allowed organizations to gather data from machines that have never produced data before. As time has gone on and the cost of technology has decreased significantly, this data is now being collected in economical...
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) has emerged as a popular tool across industries for measuring and gaining insight into satisfaction ratings and whether a customer is likely to recommend a particular good or service. Many telecom service providers have adopted the NPS methodology, and...
Now that I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to help companies get their networks to do what their businesses want them to do, I realize what sorts of challenges IT organizations have overcome to get any truly remote management operational. Now...
Japan-based Toyota has taken a stake in data analytics firm ALBERT, also from Japan, to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in house, and develop its own autonomous driving capabilities.
Toyota said the pair have struck a “business alliance” that will see...
Oracle has agreed to buy California-based data analytics specialist DataScience.com for an undisclosed fee to boost its machine learning capabilities.
DataScience.com offers a one-stop data analytics platform, providing self-service access to open source data science tools, and related projects and infrastructure. The platform allows customers,...
Huawei introduces intent-driven CloudCampus solution
Huawei unveiled its intent-driven CloudCampus solution along with new programmable switches for enterprise campus networks at the Huawei Western Europe Partner Summit 2018 in Amsterdam.
Intent-driven networks (IDN) involve focusing on meeting the needs of the end user leveraging cloud, big...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial sub-text in the evolution of LTE and IoT networks. The deployment of AI-driven applications among the carrier community is limited so far.
“We are at the beginning,” says Luc Bretones, executive vice president of the France-based Orange’s Technocentre...
The categorization of artificial intelligence (AI) in telecoms can be cut any number of ways. Spanish telecoms group Telefónica identifies four business needs: in business optimization, market insights, customer engagement, and business innovation. Francisco José Montalvo, director of its ‘fourth platform’ business, says these...
The telecoms industry is heavily invested the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based technologies. “The telecoms network is the basis for the outbreak of AI, and AI will greatly enhance the telecoms network,” comments Zhang Sihong, chief engineer of AI...
Alibaba Cloud launches eight new products
Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, recently deployed eight products spanning the gamut of artificial intelligence (A.I.), big data, infrastructure, security and private cloud solutions.
The products were unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. The purpose...
A Q&A with Werner Hamberger of Audi AG Steering Digital Production
Industrial leaders are implementing smart manufacturing strategies with the primary goal of improving operational efficiency and gain more value from business. One of the companies that has embraced digital transformation is German carmaker Audi....
New report highlights SDN orchestration market growth
A new report published by MarketsandMarkets projects the software-defined networking (SDN) orchestration market to swell from $214.7 million in 2017 to $4,458.5 million by 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 83.4%. Key vendors profiled included...
I'm just back from CES, and it's clear that IoT in the home offers a certain magic that interests press and consumers. But even though voice agents are gaining traction, and ushering in a new world of connected smart homes, the big action in...
U.S. Cellular is putting in place a comprehensive big data architecture and strategy for its business, with a deployment that has already begun and is focused on correlating network data with customer sentiment in order to predict and improve the customer experience, and shape...
Zayo deploys its own SD-WAN solution
Publicly traded company Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. deployed its SD-WAN yesterday, an integrated extension of the company’s fiber-based IP/MPLS. The purpose of the solution, according to the company, is to make it easier to manage networks by improving performance,...
A budding concept
DevOps -- a term used to refer to the integration of software developers and operations teams -- continues to spread like wildfire throughout the open networking ecosystem. The main idea behind DevOps is that by breaking down barriers between these two departments,...
“There is more and more intelligence in the networks that is joining us together,” Arm CTO says
Santa Clara, Cali. – Chief Technology Officer of Arm Mike Muller, in a keynote presentation during the 2017 Arm TechCon, discussed some of the major engineering feats that...
New facility will use 5G to further test autonomous car use case
Korean telecommunications operator KT has secured a license to build what it claims to be the world's first autonomous car cluster in Pangyo, in Gyeonggi Province. KT’s plans to deploy a core telecommunications...
As more "smart city" deployments come to life, city officials are increasingly seeking to get beyond the basics of connecting sensors and video cameras and thinking more about how to make the best use of the data coming from connected devices. This is part...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Cities will be a dominating force shaping both the problems and the solutions of the future, according to Carl Pope, former executive director and chairman of the Sierra Club.
Pope spoke in a keynote address at Smart Cities Week D.C., addressing the opportunities...
Google technical director discusses key tech trends redefining enterprises
AUSTIN--Digital transformation is having a profound impact on how companies conduct business, giving rise to new competencies never seen before. As these competencies are further developed, Google Technical Director Paul Strong sees a number of...
Operators finally have the tools they need to optimize their networks in real time and, in doing so, to increase the efficiency of network resources and improve subscribers’ QoE. But to do so, they need to gain a deeper understanding of how their networks...
