With the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification approved by 3GPP in December 2017, the telecom ecosystem is rapidly conducting standard-compliant interoperability testing to prepare for commercialization as soon as the second-half of this year. The non-standalone 5G NR standard uses the LTE core...
Nokia, Intel Deutschland, SK Telecom and KT are part of the 5G consortium
A consortium by European and Korean companies, universities and research institutes will demonstrate what it claims to be the first 5G platform during the 2018 Winter Olympics Games, taking place in South...
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Intel: "WiMAX is...
Intel announces new Xeon chips
Intel recently premiered a new chip dubbed the Xeon D-2100 processor made for edge computing workloads.
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a way of extending cloud computing capabilities to customer devices that require low-latency and high-bandwidth. It has been heralded as...
KT has been working with Intel and Samsung over the last two years to launch 5G trial
South Korean mobile operator KT announced it is technically ready to launch its 5G trial during the upcoming Winter Olympics Games, which will take place in the city...
5G NR interoperability test used a Huawei commercial base station; Intel 5G mobile trial platform
Deutsche Telekom (DT), Intel and Huawei announced they have achieved what it claims to be the world's first NSA 5G NR interoperability and development testing based on the 3GPP Release...
The IoT is applicable to energy in many more ways than just smart metering
Smart metering--connecting electric, gas and other utility meters to the internet--has emerged as an important early use case for the internet of things (IoT). The data generated by smart meters can...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich begins CES with keynote presentation
Las Vegas, Nev. -- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week with a keynote presentation centered around drones, autonomous vehicles and quantum computing.
Krzanich began his keynote addressing a security glitch...
5G is a "network of networks" and satellites are part of that new network
For many years satellites have been instrumental in the wide world of telecommunications, albeit, given the high barrier to entry in the market, limited largely to governmental stakeholders and major communications...
Patches to Intel kernel flaw could slow down computers by 30 %
An apparent security flaw has been reportedly found in almost every Intel processor chip made in the last decade, forcing a redesign of Linux and Windows kernels. Adding insult to injury, the required...
5G test designed to explore inter-vendor millimeter wave system
In a recent field test, T-Mobile US connected a Nokia base station with Intel's 5G Mobile Trial Platform using the 28 GHz band in an outdoor environment in its hometown of Bellevue, Wash. T-Mobile US called...
The two companies have implemented a visualization system at Intel’s factory in Penang, Malaysia
Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company Fujitsu is working with chipmaker Intel to improve the visualization system in Intel’s semiconductor factory in Penang, Malaysia, the firm's largest factory outside the...
Manufacturing is a key growth area for the internet of things
The internet of things is driving digital transformation in a variety of industries looking to embrace connectivity to increase process efficiencies that cut costs and create new revenue streams. Smart manufacturing--the digitalization of supply...
A Crown Castle distributed antenna system in Chicago is the site of a new data center architecture that could change the economics of centralized radio access networks. Vapor IO, a startup funded by Crown Castle and supported by Intel, says its Kinectic Edge architecture...
End-to-end network slicing holds promise as the key to unlocking new business opportunities with 5G to drive revenue growth. So exactly how will service providers benefit from slicing? And how can they overcome technical challenges?
This webinar, developed by Strategy Analytics, will discuss where business...
"Make calls, keep records, send email, browse the web and run over a thousand different applications, all while on the go..."
This holiday ad for "one of the first truly portable, mobile and multipurpose Internet devices” appeared 18 years ago, before the term 'smartphone' was...
Momentum for Gigabit LTE continues to improve as more operators and device makers get on board. A recent third-party study underscores the benefits of the new technology to both end users and operators that are driving this shift. The testing showed surprising gain in...
AT&T divulges Open Disaggregated Network Operating System vision
AT&T gave a glimpse into its vision of a Disaggregated Network Operating System (dNOS) in a recent white paper titled “Toward an Open, Disaggregated Networking Operating System” with a push toward software-defined networking (SDN) and white box...
A Q&A with Steve Chadwick, Intel Principal Engineer of Manufacturing IT
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon as. A wide variety of manufacturers are embracing
advanced technologies running the gamut from the internet of things and connectivity to data
analytics and automation in an effort to create...
After launching its 5G modem chip early this year, Intel has announced plans to commercialize the technology in 2019. The company said its XMMTM 8060 modem is already making 5G calls using spectrum in the 28 GHz band.
The XMMTM 8060 will support both sub-6GHz...
The 5G standard is still several weeks away, but chipmakers are already testing 5G equipment in a variety of environments, including moving vehicles. A car traveling at 30 miles per hour was able to stream 4K video in a 5G test conducted by Intel,...
Olympics 5G preview ahead of KT plans for commercialization in 2019
Intel has announced a collaboration with South Korean telecoms group KT Corporation to develop a 5G showcase at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018.
During the games, KT and Intel will deliver...
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel beat earning expectations
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel posted quarterly earnings last Thursday, which reflected a shift away from company-owned data centers and toward the cloud. All of the companies surpassed expected earnings, resulting in a surge in share prices...
End-to-end network slicing holds promise as the key to unlocking new business opportunities with 5G to drive revenue growth. So exactly how will service providers benefit from slicing? And how can they overcome technical challenges?
This webinar, developed by Strategy Analytics, will discuss where business...
