In the first two blogs in this series we discovered what a programmable fabric is and what it looks like. Now we are ready to dive deeper into programmable fabrics and discover network function offload.
Telecom communication service providers need to provision “Network Functions” in...
India’s Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani confirmed that the conglomerate’s mobile Jio Platforms engineers designed and developed a "complete 5G system" from scratch.
The executive said that Jio Platforms’ 5G kit will be ready for trials as soon as spectrum is available, with field deployments...
Accelerate Transformation Communications service providers (CSPs) are amid rapid transformation. This change is driven by an increasing demand for low-latency, high-bandwidth services from both enterprises and consumers, and enabled by a new generation of advanced technologies. 5G and edge computing have unique network requirements,...
A new initiative aimed at bringing cloud-based edge computing capabilities to far-flung rural locations is gaining steam, having gathered more than three dozen network providers and application partners in support of an edge ecosystem to serve rural industrial and smart agriculture use cases.
The Rural...
Can artificial intelligence be trained to improve wireless network performance, classify emerging devices on a network, or conduct real-time machine learning at the network edge? Those are just a few of the concepts being explored in new research programs funded by Intel and the...
Security experts have identified a series of 19 vulnerabilities, given the name Ripple20, in a small software library integrated into “hundreds of millions”, and potentially billions, of IoT devices that have been sold into consumer, enterprise and industrial markets during the past two decades.
Israeli...
Canada and the U.K. have changed their minds. They now want to cancel their Huawei agreement to upgrade their 5G wireless networks. As a wireless analyst I closely follow all the players and have for more than 30 years. Over the last decade, Huawei...
Telecommunication networks are becoming more and more essential every day and, in the process, gaining new opportunities. These opportunities will drive new business growth and create exciting areas for revenue generation. However, as with all opportunities, challenges exist and for communication service providers (CSPs),...
Intel pledges $1 million "to address social justice, racism"
Intel CEO Bob Swan on May 31 sent the following memo, re-published in full, to company employees.
"I’m writing to you to address recent events that have occurred here in the United States that are weighing heavily on so...
Greetings from the Kansas City and Willard, Missouri (dogs at play pictured), as well as Lake Norman/ Charlotte, North Carolina. The caravan of goods and furniture started Friday and continues through June 1, hence the later distribution of this week’s Brief. Our son, Jimmy,...
“Looking at the astonishing scale of data stored and generated, storing 175ZB on a pile of Blu-ray discs, the stack would reach the moon” says BS Teh, SVP, global sales and sales operation, Seagate Technology.
The zettabyte is known as a multiple of the unit...
Densifying mmWave 5G while managing deployment costs
The U.S., both operators and regulators, have been bullish on the role of millimeter wave spectrum in 5G. Indeed, both Verizon and AT&T went to market with 5G using their mmWave holdings; the former, in comparing its offering...
Millimeter Wave (mmWave) technology is a critical component of 5G networks. Today, scaling mmWave deployments typically requires deploying a large number of expensive base stations to provide adequate coverage, impacting the viability and overall business case for operators. Yet this can become more commercially...
Wireless is a critically important industry to our economy and society. And it is becoming even stronger and more important thanks to COVID-19. Certain industries will take a while to recover. Other industries are key during this crisis and going forward. Let’s take a...
Getting to the 5G future requires much more than just upgrading existing networks. Operators need a cohesive roadmap for moving to a virtualized, software-defined infrastructure. Operational excellence will be hinged on OSS/BSS transformation to take advantage of automation and real-time data analysis.
To translate those...
5G is touted as the connectivity fabric that will fundamentally reshape our collective future. Consumers will benefit from ubiquitous, high-quality connectivity capable of serving up applications that were previously impossible. Enterprises will realize new levels of productivity and efficiency as real-time data analysis and...
The vision of 5G is cloud-native networks automatically delivering capacity on-demand. The reality, however, is that most operators are taking an incremental approach to cloudification and trying to understand where to direct capex given the need for holistic modernization in addition to...
Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in the use of accelerators on standard servers to improve workload performance. It started with GPUs to accelerate AI/ML and is now growing to include FPGAs, SMART-NICs on servers and other low-power embedded...
Altiostar, Intel, Xilinx among Telefónica Open RAN providers
Ahead of planned Open RAN trials later this year in Brazil, Germany, Spain and the U.K., telecoms giant Telefónica is collaborating with several ecosystem vendors to develop disaggregated radio access network solutions. The group is working off...
What smart-city lighting deployments are particularly innovative? That was the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to market commentators, during its research for a new editorial report (available tomorrow), which considers how smart lighting, in buildings and cities, is being used as a springboard for...
Nokia has been slowly moving from the use of field programmable gate arrays towards 5G silicon technology
This week, Nokia has inked two separate deals, one with semiconductor company Marvell Technology and the other with Intel, to jointly developed custom silicon solutions. The Finnish vendor's...
WBA: 'speeds achieved by Wi-Fi 6E will rival those of 5G mobile networks'
Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has initiated the first phase of a series of Wi-Fi 6E trials using Wi-Fi 6E-capable mobile platforms and laptop equipment enabled by WBA member companies, Broadcom and Intel....
Virtual RAN solutions are critical in a 5G world, says VMware
VMware, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom are collaborating on an open and intelligent virtual RAN (vRAN) platform. The platform, based on O-RAN standards and Intel’s FlexRAN architecture, will improve RAN agility for both existing LTE...
California-based industrial AI developer Foghorn has closed $25 million in a series C round of funding, led by LS Corp, part of $25 billion South Korean industrial conglomerate LS Group. It said the new funds will accelerate growth among industrialists seeking digital change in...
