Intel debuts 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor with telco SKUs tailored for the 5G era This week Intel announced its third-generation Xeon scalable processor which comes in SKUs that are optimized for use in telco networks that are becoming increasingly virtualized and disaggregated with proprietary, single-purpose boxes getting swapped for commodity hardware running virtualized and cloud-native
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Categories 5G, Carriers, mmWave, Network Infrastructure, signal boosters, SureCall, Verizon, Verizon 5G, Wireless
Verizon deploys network repeaters to expand 5G mmWave coverage
Last year, SureCall Founder & CEO Hongtao Zhan told RCR Wireless News that he believes that in five years, a staggering 80% of millimeter wave
Bharti Airtel signed a trading deal to sell 800 MHz spectrum in Andhra Pradesh (3.75 MHz), Delhi (1.25 MHz) and Mumbai (2.50 MHz) to rival
GSMA: Spanish government will make ‘highly qualified worker’ travel exception for MWC registrants
The GSMA announced this morning that registered attendees coming to Spain for MWC Barcelona 2021 will be considered part of the “highly qualified worker” exceptions
Etisalat signed an MoU with Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN support Etisalat, following a joint announcement with Rakuten Communications Platform to develop a reference
The president of Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Leonardo Euler, said that the publication of the 5G auction notice would probably occur in July or
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Categories 3.5 GHz, 5G, 5G sites, 700MHz, ANFR, Bouygues Telecom, Carriers, EMEA, Free Mobile, Network Infrastructure, Orange France, SFR, Wireless
France’s spectrum agency authorizes 22,857 5G sites
France had a total of 22,857 5G authorized sites as of April 1, of which 12,213 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators,
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Categories 5G, Americas, Carriers, Ceragon Networks, Network Infrastructure, O-RAN, Open-RAN, Software, TIM Brasil, trials
Ceragon Networks to take part in TIM Brazil’s O-RAN trials
Wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks says it has been selected by Brazilian carrier TIM to participate in the joint work being carried out with the
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Categories 5G, Carriers, Cosmote, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Network Infrastructure, transport network, wireless backhaul
Ericsson and partners trial W-band for increased 5G backhaul capacity
5G will require more advanced backhaul solutions Ericsson announced that its W-band (92 GHz -114 GHz) trials, conducted in partnership with Deutsche Telekom and Cosmote, proved
Telecom-focused private equity company Grain Management says it has closed on $3.75 billion in funding in the past year, exceeding its targets for purchases of
Right after the last Nvidia quarterly earnings release, Jim Cramer, host of CNBC Mad Money spoke to Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia regarding the deal
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Categories 5G, Dell Technologies, Intel, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Network Infrastructure, NICs, SLA, SR-IOV
Bandwidth Guarantees for Telecom Services using SR-IOV and Containers
With the emergence of Container-native Virtualization (CNV) or the ability to run and manage virtual machines alongside container workloads, Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) takes
In mobile communications, increasing capacity and extending coverage are the most important factors to operators. KMW implemented OPRA that has applied Orthogonal Polarization Reuse to increase capacity and