Broadcom first announced plans to acquire VMware for $61 billion in May 2022
Broadcom’s plan to acquire VMware for $61 billion, first announced in May 2022, has encountered another setback. Regulators in both Europe and the U.S. are still looking into the proposed merger and...
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The problem with Industry 4.0 in brownfield sites is that playground software is fighting for...
A couple of years back, Nokia talked up its private 5G cloud system like a Netflix-style content platform; almost three years later, it is looking to deliver on that concept by loading its MXIE edge-compute servers with Industry 4.0 applications. It is a telling...
Huawei and its partners have developed and released over 100 digital transformation standards for the smart city, finance, electric power, highway, aviation and healthcare industries
Chinese vendor Huawei will accelerate investments in the digitalization space, particularly in areas including connectivity, computing storage and cloud, the...
The safety and security of students and faculty members must always rank as a top concern for educational organizations, but with national school enrollment numbers steadily increasing, security teams are frequently turning towards intelligent technology to best protect both people and property.
Schools and educational...
With global 5G deployments accelerating, industries from healthcare to manufacturing to mining are in midst of a digital metamorphosis. They are all trying to compete and innovate through the usage of wireless 5G, and of other disruptive technologies like AI, Cloud, and IoT. The...
IoT virtual mobile network operator (MVNO) KORE Wireless Group has signed a deal to acquire the IoT division of customer engagement platform company Twilio. The Atlanta-based firm said the move confirms it as the “world’s leading pure-play IoT provider”; it also suggested it will...
The scale of data which AT&T processes is staggering: More than 590 petabytes on a daily basis, the equivalent of 6.5 million 4K movies. Being able to process its data faster and more efficiently means tangible improvements in reduced cost (especially cloud costs), increased...
Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...
The current economic climate might be uncertain, but one thing is not: companies are still heavily investing in high-bandwidth network services.
FiberLight recently surveyed 1,750 corporate and IT executives, and a resounding 88% said that they are still very much investing in high-bandwidth network services...
Cisco has introduced a number of new cloud services in its IoT operations dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and manage assets remotely and securely. At its annual Cisco Live event in Amsterdam, the firm said it had focused on ways to bridge the...
Vital network functions are moving from hardware to virtualized software instances, and those software instances are increasingly being deployed in cloud environments. The goal is to give operators access to the scale, economics and innovative potential associated with the cloud.
But, in a new paradigm...
The evolution to 5G, digital services, IoT, cloud-native and virtualized architectures is driving an evolution in network testing. To keep up with the new requirements and expectations, next-gen network testing must operate in real-time and at multiple levels to deliver new solutions that are...
SFR currently provides 5G services in 6,200 municipalities across France
French telco SFR announced it has selected Finnish vendor Nokia for the deployment of its 5G Standalone (SA) core network, the former said in a release.
As part of its ongoing 5G deployment, SFR has signed...
In August 2022, Spark had completed what it claimed to be the first end-to-end 5G SA network trial in the country
New Zealand telco Spark, together with Ericsson and Red Hat, announced the successful completion of a 5G Standalone (5G SA) trial in New Zealand.
Spark...
The technology that fuels connectivity powers some of the greatest innovations known to mankind – yet the supporting infrastructure behind it is failing to keep pace.
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As the telecommunications industry enters 2023, economic times are uncertain and capital and operational costs are under increased pressure. Customers need to be better understood and served. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) need to understand and manage their environment better. New skills in the workforce...
Anant Maheshwari, president of Microsoft India, said that the collaboration will help customers build green and secured networks
Indian company Tech Mahindra has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to enable cloud-powered 5G core network modernization for telecom operators globally.
In a release, Microsoft India noted...
Huawei also expects to keep R&D investment at a high level in 2023
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies estimated that its 2022 revenues remained flat compared to the previous year, despite continued sanctions by the U.S. government.
"U.S. restrictions are now our new normal, and we're back...
Professional services company Ernst & Young Global (EY) has announced a partnership with Germany-based enterprise data and analytics company Software AG to help enterprises with digital change in India and Germany, initially, rolling out to other markets. The partnership is focused on digitalisation, process...
Our world is shifting into a new era of modernization, and much like the private sector, governments are feeling the effects. Even before the pandemic, residents and constituents were getting used to — and sometimes demanding — that services be provided digitally. The need...
In this 5G project, O2 Telefónica said it is working closely together with partners Google Cloud and Ericsson
German operator O2 Telefónica, owned by Spanish telco Telefónica, said it will move its 5G core network in Germany to the cloud in the future, with the...
Telefonica Germany said it has been testing Nokia's cloud RAN tech in Potsdam
German carrier O2 Telefónica, which is controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said it is currently using cloud RAN technology from Nokia in its 5G network.
The telco noted that cloud RAN allows parts...
Network design and services firm Betacom has struck a channel sales deal (“integrated delivery model”) with Qualcomm whereby enterprise customers in the Industry 4.0 space will be able to link Betacom’s private 5G network design and management service with Qualcomm’s RAN automation and management...
