Both Viavi Solutions and Siemens are making acquisitions to augment their position in 5G test. Viavi will pay $455 million to pick up Cobhams’ test and measurement business. Viavi said that this “significantly strengthens [its]competitive position in 5G deployment and diversifies the company into military, public safety and avionics test markets.” Viavi noted that Cobham’s
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Categories Network Infrastructure, QoS, SD-WAN, SmartWAN, Software, Software-defined networks (SDN), VoIP, Vonage
Vonage extends SD-WAN to small and medium-sized businesses
Vonage brings SmartWAN to Cloud PBX platform Service provider Vonage announced it has expanded its SD-WAN solution, SmartWAN, to its proprietary Cloud PBX platform, providing availability
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Categories 5G, Cloud Computing, Devices, Intel, MEC, Network Infrastructure, SoC, Xeon D-2100 processor
Intel pushes edge computing debuting Xeon D-2100 processors
Intel announces new Xeon chips Intel recently premiered a new chip dubbed the Xeon D-2100 processor made for edge computing workloads. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a
The telco said the new initiative will allow partners and organizations to develop new use cases for 5G Japanese telecommunications operator NTT Docomo plans to launch
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Categories 3GPP, 5G, 5G NR, Ericsson, Fundamentals, Network Infrastructure, Nokia, NSA 5G NR, Qualcomm
How prepared is the telecom industry to deploy NSA 5G NR?
Now that there’s a non-standalone 5G NR standard in place, how has the rest of the telecom industry aligned to support promised commercial rollouts as
Securing open distributed architectures Service providers have gravitated toward open distributed architectures over the past few years with the rise of network functions virtualization (NFV), software-defined
NXP/Qualcomm deal is major premise of recent “best and final” offer from Broadcom The Qualcomm subsidiary working to acquire NXP extended to Feb. 23 the cash
In December 2017, 3GPP finalized the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification, which uses the LTE radio and core network in tandem with a new
This new iOS mobile app enables you to store and then easily retrieve all of your personal information including frequent flier accounts, bank accounts, credit
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Categories 5G, Cloud Computing, CSPs, IoT, Network Infrastructure, NFV, OpenStack, Software, Tech Mahindra, VMware
Tech Mahindra, VMware partner to accelerate network transformation
Tech Mahindra and VMware combine solutions Tech Mahindra and VMware recently announced a collaboration aimed at communication service providers (CSPs), which will focus on developing, marketing
T-Mobile US continues its streak of ongoing growth, rounding out 2017 with both a fourth quarter and a full year of impressive numbers: services revenues
The city has selected CNX for a master planning regarding small cells installation to provide density for 5G, smart city projects CNX, a firm which focuses
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Categories 5G, Ericsson, evolved packet core, Network Infrastructure, network slicing, Software, VodafoneZiggo
VodafoneZiggo eyes network slicing contracting Ericsson
VodafoneZiggo awards Ericsson evolved packet core contract VodafoneZiggo, a joint venture between Vodafone Netherlands and Ziggo, announced it has awarded Ericsson an evolved packet core contract.
The 5G trials will be carried out in Lille and Douai between mid-2018 and mid-2019 French telecommunications group Orange has announced plans to carry out new
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Categories autonomous vehicles, Devices, Fundamentals, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT, MEC, smart cities, smart manufacturing
How MEC can help support the IoT
Billions of devices The IoT market is undergoing tremendous growth. While predictions and numbers vary, there is an overall trend toward an increase in web connected