Improving access to care is all about improving access to data, Verizon says
Verizon Business and U.K.-based health technology company Visionable are collaborating on a range of connected healthcare solutions. The partnership, which is an expansion of a 2021 agreement, combines Visionable’s patented technology and...
Arm ups performance and efficiency in new designs to compete with AMD and Intel
Fabless semiconductor maker Arm Ltd. has announced new chip designs that will power the next generation of cloud computing, 5G and High-Performance Computing (HPC) hardware coming next year, to compete with products from...
A look inside the companies’ three-prong strategy with IBM’s head of cloud, 5G, and edge
IBM on Wednesday announced a partnership with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to bring forth a massive edge computing project that will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities in...
IN THE AGE OF REMOTE WORK AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, CREATING GREAT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL INITIATIVES FOR COMPANIES OF ALL TYPES.
One of the biggest enablers of delightful customer experiences is data processing speed, and two major components of data processing...
The managed service combines VMware’s Edge Compute Stack with NTT’s private 5G NaaS
Japanese telco and IT infrastructure company NTT has announced a new collaboration with VMware called Edge-as-a-Service. The managed compute platform leverages VMware’s edge compute stack and NTT’s private 5G network-as-a-service, to help enterprises...
Company says six markets have live deployments and 32 are customer-ready
Modular mini-data-center company Vapor IO says that its edge computing grid service is open for business in 32 markets across the U.S., with live deployments in six of those.
Vapor is playing up time-to-market...
One of the most promising new revenue opportunities in 5G is network slicing. This allows spectrum owners to create private wireless networks which they can then rent or lease to enterprise users for short or long durations. By some estimates, the private 5G network...
The metaverse needs a big networking lift, with telcos playing a central role
Telcos will be front and center when it comes to providing networking infrastructure to make the metaverse work. Early requirements for the metaverse suggest that Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have a lot...
The 3GPP has defined an enabling layer to facilitate communication between the Application Clients and the Edge Application Servers
The latest iterations of 3GPP standards have placed added emphasis on support for edge computing, a distributed computing framework that brings computation and data storage...
Todd Nightingale leaving Cisco to take on CEO role at Fastly
Todd Nightingale, long-time executive vice president and general manager of the Cisco Enterprise Cloud and Networking Group, will become CEO of edge cloud platform provider Fastly on Sept. 1. Cisco, according to an emailed...
Telecom companies have a major role to play in delivering impactful metaverse experiences
The metaverse is kind of a funny thing. It’s not really real just yet but given what we do know about it--a combination of connectivity, compute, graphics rendering, immersive user interfaces and...
Technology revolution is littered with success and failure stories; the first movers set the agenda and it is innovation in process as that generates lower cost, faster time to market and better quality. An analogy is something we take for granted today — robots...
GE Healthcare said that the 5G lab will serve as a testbed to develop future-ready products and solutions
GE Healthcare announced the inauguration of its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the company said in a statement.
Located at the John F. Welch Technology Centre (JFWTC),...
With Yahoo Edgecast fully acquired, Edgio promises the fastest web applications on the planet running on its global edge network
In March, Limelight Networks announced plans to acquire Yahoo Edgecast. The company signed a definitive agreement to acquire Yahoo’s Edgecast business unit in an all-stock transaction...
Forget the cloud; more and more devices today are connecting at the edge. Better yet, they’re more powerful thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning. This one-two punch of smarter, nearer devices is transforming what devices can do in the Internet of Things (IoT).
The...
The performance will feature a virtual environment using 3D images captured at the Verizon 5G Lab in Los Angeles
Verizon is using its edge compute capabilities and its 5G Ultra Wideband network — the brand name for its C-Band and mmWave network — to deliver...
As network operators continue the shift to 5G and as they look for ways to bring the network closer to their customers, a call for simplifying network management has been issued. Gina Nienaber, the director of Product Marketing, Routing and Switching Portfolio at Ciena,...
Nokia on the role of SaaS for telecom workloads: A vision of a “fully-automated network on demand”
AUSTIN—As virtualization, at this point mature in the core network, is making an impact on how radio access networks are architected and operated, there’s a line of thinking...
Working towards 2030 sustainability
British Telecom (BT) this week announced a new edge compute solution as part of its manifesto to help customers reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 million tons by the year 2030. The new effort uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by QiO...
The public sector is already relatively mature in its use of edge computing for use cases such as public safety, but there are significant cybersecurity concerns in play, according to a new report.
The vertical-specific report by IDC was commissioned by AT&T and draws...
Stellantis and Qualcomm collaborating to bring the same type of evolutionary experience expected from smartphones to vehicles
From supplier relations and vertical integration to disaggregating vehicular hardware and software, extending evolutionary experiences to vehicles, and, most importantly, protecting lives, the concept and content of automobiles...
Qualcomm CEO: “With 5G, we’re truly moving towards a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected”
SAN DIEGO--Qualcomm is on a mission to leverage its core expertise in connectivity, cameras, audio, graphics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to expand its addressable market to $700...
'Data activation' unleashes trapped and siloed data, says WANdisco
It’s already an enormous challenge for businesses to merely collect the data from large Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Using it is another problem entirely. The distributed computing experts at WANdisco think they have the right...