A new generation of cellular technology, operating in newly opened mmWave frequency bands, is promising a major shift in the in-building wireless space. Most cellular network traffic is generated indoors, and some of the early 5G use cases around sports, entertainment and more are...
Djoliba is based on a terrestrial fiber optic network coupled with undersea cables
In an effort to address growing connectivity needs in West Africa, Orange and its subsidiaries have announced the commercial launch of Djoliba, a fiber backbone consisting of more than 10,000 km of...
In a vote split along party lines, the Federal Communications Commission continued its press to minimize local barriers to network deployment by allowing excavation and deployment of equipment up to 30 feet beyond a site boundary without triggering additional review.
Republican commission members framed the...
The Federal Communications Commission has formally established rules for its 5G Fund for Rural America, which will disburse up to $9 billion over the next decade. However, the minimum speeds that the agency is requiring of these future rural 5G networks are only a...
Hurricane Delta has caused some communications network impacts across southern Louisiana, with five counties reporting that at least 24% of their cell sites and down and one 911 answering point is receiving 911 calls without location information.
According to numbers from the Federal Communications Commission's...
Could the original service connecting people and businesses across the United States play a role in furthering the deployment of next-generation 5G connectivity? According to a report from the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General, the answer is yes, and USPS ought to...
Thanks to the broadband project, the village can now receive speeds of up to 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream
Copper Valley Telecom (CVT) has completed a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband deployment in Tatitlek, an off-grid indigenous village in Alaska, improving connectivity speeds from 10...
5G offers nearly limitless potential with faster speeds and greater efficiency. But how can those opportunities be further optimized through AI? Building AI capabilities have become foundational in the drive toward network operation automation.
Today’s telecom networks operate on outdated systems that make it difficult...
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...
With the introduction of 5G, networking equipment, storage and computing hardware, other valuable infrastructure will now be located closer to the end user, increasing the need for advanced, physical security.
Safeguard small cell enclosures from physical threats and deliver better, stronger and more reliable networks...
The Federal Communications Commission a number of actions at its monthly meeting, covering streamlined 5G deployment, rural broadband deployment, advanced broadcasting using the ATSC 3.0 standard and potentially expanded use of spectrum at 70/80/90 GHz.
The agency approved of the anticipated 5G upgrade order by a...
“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...
The first quarter was a mixed bag for Comcast, which saw notable gains in its broadband and wireless services, while its theme parks, television and film production all have been largely shut down under shelter-in-place rules and that had a steep impact on profits.
Company...
The Chinese government has set new regulations for critical information infrastructure operators to buy tech equipment, which could potentially represent new obstacles for foreign vendors.
The new regulations, which were announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), require that domestic critical information infrastructure operators...
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said that the telecom company is pursuing a three-pronged strategy as it navigates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. On last week's call with investors, Vestberg described managing the crisis response and continuing to execute on Verizon's existing strategy, while...
Verizon withdrew future revenue guidance in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and posted customer losses that it said were largely due to most of its retail stores being shuttered. However, the network operator still plans to put additional money into network capital...
Ericsson is largely holding steady in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, with limited financial and operational impacts thus far -- although company executives expressed concern about the possibility that 5G deployments could be delayed in Europe, and warned that the longer national...
Chinese vendor Huawei reported revenues of CNY182.2 billion ($25.75 billion) in the first quarter of 2020, up only 1.4% year-on-year, the company said in a release.
Huawei also said its net profit margin for the quarter was 7.3%, down from 8% in Q1 2019.
In the...
Tech hub Shenzhen working toward blanket 5G coverage
The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen city plans to deploy a total of 30,000 new 5G base stations during 2020, Chinese press reported.
According to local municipal authorities, this deployment will allow Chinese carriers to provide full 5G...
Various countries are offering licensed millimeter wave 5G spectrum directly to private enterprises, and for good reason. Wifi hotspots are overloaded and cannot scale to meet the rapidly increasing demands for higher capacity and data speeds. For instance, with today’s COVID-19 quarantine and social...
Chinese vendor ZTE announced its 2019 net profit amounted to CNY5.15 billion ($726 million), a year-on-year growth of 173.7%.
The company attributed the positive performance to double-digit growth in Asia and Africa, and strong gains in the vendor’s network group, which offset a decline in...
5G services employed in fight against COVID-19 in China
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, ended February 2020 with a total of 15.4 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the telco reported in its annual report.
This compares with 6.74 million...
A new, bipartisan bill in the Senate would require the Federal Communications Commission to set aside $750 million in spectrum auction proceeds to strengthen the ecosystem of open standards-based 5G solutions that don't originate from China, including OpenRAN and the Telecom Infra Project.
The bill...
As CommScope heads into 2020, the company is realigning its business into four segments in the wake of its major acquisition of communications and video hardware and software company Arris and enterprise Wi-Fi provider Ruckus Networks.
CommScope completed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Arris (which...
