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  • Dumb pipes no more – telcos have the AI opportunity of the decade (Reader Forum)

    by Neeraj Kumar, Chief Technology Officer, Zenith System Solutions June 23, 2026
    by Neeraj Kumar, Chief Technology Officer, Zenith System Solutions June 23, 2026

    Telcos spent years being told it was becoming irrelevant. Hyperscalers were eating its lunch, OTT players were hollowing out its revenues, and its destiny was to be a glorified utility. …

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  • Microsoft to sell former private 5G unit Metaswitch to telco provider Alianza

    by James Blackman December 12, 2024
    by James Blackman December 12, 2024

    Microsoft has signed a deal to sell its networking business Metaswitch to Utah-based cloud communications provider Alianza. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025; the …

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  • A ‘bright spot in gloomy telecoms’ – private 5G sales to reach $6bn by 2027

    by James Blackman November 8, 2024
    by James Blackman November 8, 2024

    As referenced amid a bunch of stats in the preamble to RCR’s new editorial report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 (see image below), market research firm SNS Telecom & …

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  • Steady, and still ahead – Nokia’s private 5G quarter in review

    by James Blackman July 23, 2024
    by James Blackman July 23, 2024

    Finnish vendor Nokia has added some colour to its quarterly private 4G/5G enterprise sales, after not saying much at all in its official results announcement last week. The firm added …

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  • Private LTE/5G networks number 2,900 at the end of 2023

    by James Blackman December 21, 2023
    by James Blackman December 21, 2023

    There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) …

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  • The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 3 – the spectrum

    by James Blackman July 12, 2022
    by James Blackman July 12, 2022

    This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

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  • Private LTE/5G nets to hit 13,500 in ’26, 5G to lead from ’24, 5G IoT devices to flow from ’23

    by James Blackman March 18, 2022
    by James Blackman March 18, 2022

    The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from …

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  • ‘The real risk is we don’t partner’ – cloud-cos, telcos and the free-for-all in the 5G house

    by James Blackman December 20, 2021
    by James Blackman December 20, 2021

    Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge – and how they are Collaborating and Competing with Mobile Operators at …

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  • More on AWS Private 5G – branded to begin, partners to join, carriers included (sort of)

    by James Blackman December 1, 2021
    by James Blackman December 1, 2021

    So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity …

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  • ‘Operators will change shape too’ – Radisys unpicks the private 5G riddle for telcos

    by James Blackman September 9, 2021
    by James Blackman September 9, 2021

    Note, this article is taken from a longer editorial report on private 5G enterprise NOCs; to access the report, click here, or on the image below. For the attendant webinar …

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  • Private 5G will ‘eclipse’ traditional telecoms – Quortus on its first 2,000 networks

    by James Blackman May 12, 2021
    by James Blackman May 12, 2021

    “It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive at core networking provider Quortus. It …

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  • ‘Not for telcos’ – why Industry 4.0 is a team sport, and why carriers have been benched

    by James Blackman April 20, 2021
    by James Blackman April 20, 2021

    This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with …

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  • Editorial Report: Industrial grade 5G SLAs – How will operators and managed service providers guarantee URLLC 5G for critical enterprise operations?

    by James Blackman April 8, 2021
    by James Blackman April 8, 2021

    The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to …

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  • Digital Factory Solutions | Industrial 5G SLAs – the new turf war over the supply and management of 5G in Industry 4.0

    by Ben Stone April 8, 2021
    by Ben Stone April 8, 2021

    The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to …

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  • Digitak Factory Solutions | Industrial grade 5G SLAs – managing performance in public and private 5G networks

    by James Blackman March 24, 2021
    by James Blackman March 24, 2021

    The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to …

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  • Editorial Webinar: Industrial grade 5G SLAs – How will operators and managed service providers guarantee URLLC 5G for critical enterprise operations?

    by James Blackman March 24, 2021
    by James Blackman March 24, 2021

    The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to …

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  • Microsoft buys UK rapid prototyping outfit The Marsden Group to drive Industry 4.0

    by James Blackman March 17, 2021
    by James Blackman March 17, 2021

    Microsoft has acquired UK-based industrial technology and rapid prototyping outfit The Marsden Group for an undisclosed fee, as it continues to fill-out its cloud, analytics, telecoms, and software portfolio for …

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  • Orange, HPE automate 5G slicing for Industry 4.0; HPE opens global 5G test lab

    by James Blackman July 23, 2020
    by James Blackman July 23, 2020

    Orange and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have demonstrated 5G network slicing in a robot-powered Industry 4.0 setup. The pair said they will expand the demo into an “end-to-end campus trial” …

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  • The Sunday Brief: Implications of accelerated technology adoption and work/learn from home

    by Jim Patterson May 18, 2020
    by Jim Patterson May 18, 2020

    Graduation greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, NC, where we virtually celebrated the college graduation of our son (Jimmy).  We are proud of his accomplishments and share his excitement as he …

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  • Microsoft acquiring Metaswitch in push to cloud-native 5G networks

    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst May 15, 2020
    by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst May 15, 2020

    Last month Microsoft acquired vEPC specialist Affirmed Networks Microsoft this week announced it has signed a definite agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks, a cloud-native virtual network functions provider that works …

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  • Vodafone, Metaswitch conduct 5G wireless/wireline convergence tests

    by Catherine Sbeglia Nin April 30, 2020
    by Catherine Sbeglia Nin April 30, 2020

    Vodafone: ‘This trial more than justifies our faith in the value, practicality of broadband convergence’ Yesterday, Metaswitch announced that its Access Gateway Function (AGF) solution has been successfully tested by …

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  • Cubic Telecom selects Metaswitch’s VoLTE tech for connected cars

    by Juan Pedro Tomás August 21, 2019
    by Juan Pedro Tomás August 21, 2019

    Cloud native communications software specialist Metaswitch announced that Cubic Telecom, a connectivity management software provider for the automotive and IoT industries, has selected Metaswitch’s VoLTE solution to provide automotive enterprises with geo-redundant …

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  • Metaswitch, Dell EMC advance software disaggregation with combined solution

    by Nathan Cranford March 28, 2018
    by Nathan Cranford March 28, 2018

    MetaSwitch and Dell EMC offer joint solution Telecommunications software company MetaSwitch and Dell EMC announced a collaboration, which involves combining the former company’s Composable Network Protocols (CNP) IP routing and …

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  • Beyond indoor voice coverage: What’s next for VoWiFi?

    by Reality Check October 4, 2017
    by Reality Check October 4, 2017

    Few wireless technologies have experienced such a dramatic rise in telco industry perception as Wi-Fi. Once shunned by mobile operators as a best-effort competitor, they now embrace it as a …

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  • Sprint highlights NFV plans with push toward 5G

    by Nathan Cranford September 6, 2017
    by Nathan Cranford September 6, 2017

    Sprint adds new vendors as part of nationwide network functions virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment Sprint announced it is collaborating with Metaswitch and Mavenir as part of its nationwide network functions …

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