IoT gateways are of interest to wireless service providers who are looking to the "Internet of Things" for new revenue.
What is an IoT gateway?
An IoT gateway is a device that enables machine-to-machine communication by connecting appliances in the home, workplace or smart city to...
Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big data...
Oracle has used the spotlight of its OpenWorld conference to launch a flurry of new offerings, many of which focus on incorporating mobile and big data analytics for application development.
The "brand new, majorly upgraded platform-as-a-service," in the words of Larry Ellison, now chairman and...
Oracle's co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is stepping down and moving to fill the roles of executive chairman and CTO of the company, and the company will now have co-CEOs: Safra Catz and Mark Hurd.
"Safra and Mark will now report to the Oracle Board...
European regulators have approved Oracle's pending offer for Micros Systems, according to Oracle, which sets the company up to deepen its enterprise offerings for the food and drink, hotel and retail verticals.
Oracle announced the $5.3 billion acquisition of Micros Systems in late June. Micros focuses...
Ericsson, HP, Huawei, OpenCloud and Oracle ranked
According to a new report from Infonetics Research, Ericsson was judged the top pick just ahead of Oracle, based on what the research firm claimed were data-driven metrics, including “direct feedback from service providers, market share data and...
Oracle Communications is set to expand its software push into the mobile space, recently announcing plans to acquire TOA Technologies, which provides cloud-based field service solutions designed to manage customer services for enterprises. TOA said those solutions include coordinating communications “between dispatchers, mobile employees...
A new survey sponsored by Oracle shows that enterprises expect that the resources devoted to mobile applications and devices will grow significantly in the next few years, and that companies prefer to keep their mobile app development internal.
The survey found that the average IT...
Liam Maxwell, VP of products for Oracle Communications, spoke with RCR Wireless about how the transition from single-service providers to bundled offerings has affected customer relationship management, BSS and OSS, and Oracle's place in the ecosystme.
"One of the biggest problems that communications service providers have...
Liam Maxwell, VP of products for Oracle Communications, talked with RCR Wireless News about big data from the network, and how that ties into Oracle's marketing automation service Eloqua and its communications portfolio.
In the video below, Maxwell touches on how last year's acquisitions of diameter signalling and...
Numericable Group to buy Virgin Mobile in France
French cable company Numericable has agreed to buy Virgin Mobile in France for roughly $450 million. Numericable, which has a significant fiber footprint, also bought French wireless carrier SFR this year for $23 billion.
Virgin Mobile France is...
Each time we use our mobile devices we can generate multiple signaling events within the mobile core. As a result, signaling traffic has risen at a faster clip than traditional mobile network traffic.
"The volume of signaling traffic is high, certainly, but it's nothing that...
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Oracle is purchasing one of its collaborators. LiveLook, which provides visual collaboration technology across Web and mobile channels, is already embedded in its Oracle's Service Cloud offering to about 100 of its enterprise clients for customer experience management.
In announcing the deal for LiveLook, Oracle noted...
Oracle saw strong growth in its cloud offerings, even as investors sold shares because the company missed expectations.
Oracle said that cloud-based software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service revenues were up 25% year-over-year to $322 million, and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service revenues were up 13%. Cloud has been a source of strength...
NICE, France - The impact of LTE on data traffic is well documented, with many carriers reporting marked increases in network usage when customers get access to 4G networks. Less well-known is LTE's impact on signaling and sessions within the network, which can skyrocket...
The leadership landscape is changing for many mobile operators, driven by escalating customer demands and intensifying competition from over-the-top services. Many vendors and suppliers are finding that they need to address corporate decision makers from more than one part of the carrier organization.
Oracle recently...
NICE, France – Much of the telecom and wireless world was focused on software last week, as TM Forum hosted the industry in Nice, France. RCR Wireless News was there and had the chance to learn how some of the software industry's biggest players...
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Huawei and Ericsson topped Infonetics Research’s latest ranking of policy management vendors, with both operators posting strong results in evaluated metrics.
Facebook enters the fray, China Telecom faces investment concerns and telecoms lean on acquisitions to build out their offerings in this week's capital markets news round-up.
While the focus is on virtualization, the reality is that software has become an important component of next-generation wireless networks. Dozens of software announcements targeting software-defined networks and network functions virtualization are popping up at this year's Mobile World Congress event showing a growing...
Huawei and NSN have signed a cross-licensing agreement for OSS (Operations Systems Support), following up on the plan the two infrastructure giants announced last spring. Ericsson is also expected to cross license its OSS system with Huawei and NSN, according to a memorandum of...
