IBM and Salesforce name each other preferred vendor IBM and Salesforce announced they are building on their partnership by combining IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein. As part of the collaboration, IBM will build IBM Watson Quip Live Apps, merging the power of Watson and Quip. Using these apps, customers
Gigabit LTE key to providing network experience continuity once 5G hits Since Telstra launched the first commercial gigabit LTE in January 2017, more than 40 other
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Categories all-flash arrays, Devices, FLEX, K2.N, Kaminario, Network Infrastructure, Software, Tech Data
Kaminario moves to software business model with Ted Data deal
Kaminario and Tech Data announce partnership Storage software company Kaminario is transitioning from a hardware to software-centric business model as the company partners with Tech Data. Under
Telefonica launches 5G project in Spain
The telco will deploy 5G capabilities in two Spanish cities in cooperation with Nokia and Ericsson Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica has unveiled its 5G technological cities
Comes on heels of AT&T and Huawei deal falling apart ahead of CES Long-gestating concerns regarding the relationships between Huawei, ZTE and the Chinese government have
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Categories Analyst Angle, Business, enterprise, Frontier, Frontier Communications, Opinion, SMBs, unified communications
Kagan: Frontier helps small business grow
Frontier Business, the business services side of Frontier Communications, has a significant growth opportunity in 2018, by helping small- and mid-sized businesses grow using their
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Categories Devices, HPE, Kubernetes, Network Infrastructure, Portworx, PX-Enterprise, Software, stateful container workloads
Portworx, HPE leverage Kubernetes with reference configuration solution
Portworx and HPE deliver joint solution for stateful containers Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently debuted a solution-based reference configuration, which enables enterprises to launch
Benchmarking and engineering company P3 Communications is expanding its working relationship with InfoVista. The two companies have been working together for nearly a year on
Mavenir delivers virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC) Software company Mavenir recently premiered its virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC), which enables operators to host virtual routing, firewall
Under the deal, the European vendor will provide its 5G NR hardware Finnish vendor Nokia has signed an agreement with Japanese telco NTT Docomo for the
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Categories ADRF, Carriers, DAS, enterprise, in-building wireless, LTE, Network Infrastructure, Nextivity, SoLID
Enterprise connectivity without the expense of DAS or small cells
Nextivity adds multi-carrier support to hybrid active DAS soltuion “You’ll see folks try to implement DAS, but no enterprise wants to pay $5-per-square-foot for cellular coverage
Sprint also working with Altice to use cable plant for small cell deployments As Sprint continues efforts to use small cell deployments to densify its network,
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Categories Carriers
Carriers prep for Super Bowl data onslaught
As the countdown to this year’s Super Bowl LII begins in earnest, wireless network operators are putting in their final preparations in Minneapolis-St. Paul for
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Categories Cloud Computing, cloud native packet core, Ericsson, Network Infrastructure, Nokia, optus, Software, Telia
Telia to bring Nokia’s cloud native packet core to six markets
Nokia lands deal with Telia Telia Company is adopting Nokia’s cloud native packet core solution across the Nordics and Baltics, covering Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia
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Categories CMCC, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Network Infrastructure, NFV, NXP, Software, vCPE, Waltonchain
NXP, China Mobile complete virtual field test with vCPE
NXP and China Mobile finish virtualization networking trial NXP Semiconductors announced it finished a virtualization networking trial with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) with its virtual