German airline services company Lufthansa Technik has introduced new condition monitoring tools for Airbus and Boeing operators, available with its AVIATAR digital platform. The new releases have come out of a year-long joint-project with United Airlines to combine their engineering know-how and data science...
Global revenues from IoT device management services will top $36.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research. The forecast represents a compound annual jump (CAGR) of 17.1 percent, from around $16.7 billion at the end of 2021. It said spiralling interest in IoT device...
Lockheed Martin will leverage Intel FlexRAN software reference architecture to enable new cloud computing capabilities at the edge
Intel is building 5G base stations in partnership with Lockheed Martin designed to support U.S. Defense Department secure communications across a variety of operational domains.
Intel software and...
FCC said that equipment and services provided by these three firms pose a threat to national security in the U.S.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau added equipment and services from Russian firm Kaspersky Lab, and Chinese operators China Telecom (Americas),...
Botnet attackers are working around limitations of residential bandwidth and devices
The second half of 2021 marked a shift in dedicated denial of service attacks: A reduction in overall numbers, but a shift toward smarter and higher-volume attacks, according to Netscout's new Threat Intelligence Report.
Netscout,...
AT&T CEO John Stankey: 'When our first act is done, we’ll be a more focused, agile and capable domestic network leader'
At AT&T’s analyst and investor day, CEO John Stankey signaled a two-act reinvention for the operator, describing a company more focused on connectivity and...
Oracle on automation as key to operationalizing and evolving 5G
The continued evolution of 5G is very much an exercise in rapidly increasing network and service complexity. On the network side, the shift to cloud architecture, cloud-native core, edge clouds and RAN virtualization make...
Organizations are getting a ton of network-related data every minute of every day. There has been a massive increase in devices, applications, bandwidth, IoT equipment and cloud-based applications to deal with. Add to that the recent rapid expansion of the network environment (stemming from...
Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai joins Rakuten Symphony Board of Directors
Rakuten Symphony, the evolution of the Rakuten Communications Platform, has an anchor client in new German market entrant 1&1, has spelled out its goal to address a $100 billion market, and hit Mobile World...
The Japanese company aims to launch its new 5G vRAN solution by the end of fiscal 2022
Fujitsu announced that it has successfully developed new software virtualized radio access network (vRAN) technology with support for 5G Standalone (SA).
In a release, the Japanese company said it...
Partners say that "RAN pooling" will lead to more resilient, greener 5G networks
AT&T and Intel say that they have co-developed an approach that " 5G radios" from dedicated base stations. This "RAN pooling" brings the concept of elastic scaling from cloud computing into the...
Samsung subsidiary Harman has acquired a German software company that focuses on automotive augmented and mixed reality.
Automotive tech company Apostera and its AR and MR software solutions "will expand Harman’s automotive product offerings and position the company at the forefront of automotive AR/MR...
Robocall mitigation efforts are having an impact, according to new information from Transaction Network Services (TNS). But do consumers feel the difference? Not necessarily—or at least, not yet.
TNS analyzes more than 1.6 billion calls across carrier networks each day as the basis for...
'Today, the fully autonomous portion is just tillage; tomorrow it may be planting, and after that it may be spraying,' the manager of John Deere’s StarFire Network Al Savage told RCR Wireless News at CES
The most impressive thing about the 40,000-pound tractor that John...
Telecom infrastructure provider UTStarcom announced progress with China Unicom Research Institute in their cooperative development and field testing of a disaggregated networking solution for 5G transport networks.
China Unicom Research Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom, one of the major mobile carriers...
The difference between 5G and 6G
One key aspect where future 6G technology will differ from 5G is softwarization, as several features will become pure software solutions in the 6G era, Chen Chang, Strategic Business Development Director at National Instruments (NI), told RCR Wireless News.
“5G...
Nokia announced that Japanese carrier KDDI has selected the vendor’s 5G Core and Converged Charging software to support its transition to a cloud-native 5G Core architecture.
In a release, Nokia explained that following the evolution of KDDI’s networks to 5G Standalone core, subscribers will experience...
At the same time, India is notably lagging in 5G due to regulatory delays
India expects to be in a position to launch indigenously developed 6G technology by the end of 2023 or early 2024, local press reported, citing the country’s Minister for Communication Ashwini...
Ericsson will buy Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal
Network equipment and services provider Ericsson will acquire enterprise cloud services company Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal, which it touts as fundamental to creating a cloud-focused platform centered on "open innovation" and the ability for...
Ericsson, Nokia this week announced new CSP software offerings
This week incumbent network equipment providers Ericsson and Nokia made major service provider software announcements, the former around service management and orchestration and the latter on a multi-faceted SaaS offering. These launches are indicative of the...
Speaking yesterday (November 15) with Enterprise IoT Insights about a new deal to supply BLE-based trackers to France-based aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines, Orange Business Services portrayed itself as the orchestrator, practically, of Industry 4.0. It is a telling assessment, and an interesting case:...
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure said it will provide 300 million euros ($344 million) in funding to develop and test Open RAN (O-RAN) technology in the country.
In a release, the ministry said its aim is to advance the development and testing...
