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Thales outbids Atos for Gemalto French aerospace specialist Thales outbid Atos for Dutch cybersecurity provider Gemalto. The company has agreed to purchase Gemalto for $5.6 billion, surpassing Atos’s bid valued at $5.06 billion. Gemalto is considered the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and credit cards. Thales, by contrast, is known as an electrical systems service provider

December 19, 2017

3GPP, 5G, Analyst Angle, License Assisted Access, LTE, standards

3GPP fun facts, Part 3 (Analyst Angle)

Editor’s Note: SRG has been participating in 3GPP standardization meetings since September 2015 when the standards body held its first workshop on 5G. Prior to that

December 19, 2017

5G, Devices, Huawei

U.S. carriers move closer to Huawei

For years U.S. carriers have kept Huawei at arms length because of security concerns, but now the Chinese telecom giant appears to be moving a

December 19, 2017

5G, Fundamentals, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Network Infrastructure, network slicing, NFV, RAN, SDN

An introduction to network slicing

What is network slicing? Network slicing is a kind of virtual network architecture, which leverages the principles behind network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN).

December 19, 2017

5G, Carriers, enterprise, massive MIMO, Network Infrastructure, ooredoo, ooredoo qatar

Ooredoo breaks 1 Gbps barrier on commercial network

Speeds up to 1.2 Gbps available to Ooredoo customers with compatible smartphones Carriers around the world are pushing the 1 Gbps data throughput barrier with increasingly

December 19, 2017

Big Data Analytics, DARPA, Internet of Things, Internet of Things (IoT), sensors

DARPA wants an “ocean of things”

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is kicking off a new program that envisions taking the internet of things to grand scale, using IoT technology

December 19, 2017

5G, APAC, Carriers, Huawei, millimeter wave, NTT DoCoMo

Huawei, NTT DoCoMo complete new 5G trial in Japan

The trial, which took place in Yokohama, paves the way for applications and deployment of 5G millimeter wave, according to Huawei Chinese vendor Huawei and Japanese

December 19, 2017

Analyst Angle, BSNL, India, ITU ICT Development Index, Opinion, wi-fi

Analyst Angle: BSNL driving digital India with Wi-Fi strategy

India is known to have the second largest population in the world at 1.3 billion, but it also has the second largest number of mobile

December 19, 2017

5G, 5G fixed wireless, Internet of Things, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT, Network Infrastructure, sensors

Top 50 of 2017, Part 2: IoT hype, sensors, 5G FWA

Editors note: This week we’ll take a look back at the 50 stories that drew the highest level of engagement from our RCR Wireless News

December 19, 2017

3GPP, 5G, 5G fixed wireless, 5G NR, Carriers, Fundamentals, Verizon

5G fixed wireless access makes major progress in 2017

Verizon prepping to deliver residential broadband using 5G fixed wireless access in 2018 U.S. operators in 2017 carried out extensive tests of the pre-standard, non-standalone 5G

December 18, 2017

5G, COMPTEL, context-aware intelligence, Devices, ETSI, Network Infrastructure, Nokia Data Refinery, Software

Nokia provides data context with processing software solution

Nokia unveils Data Refinery solution Nokia premiered a new data processing software today called Nokia Data Refinery, formerly Comptel Data Refinery, which aims to provide real-time

December 18, 2017

Cloud Computing, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, Juniper, Linux Foundation, Network Infrastructure, OpenContrail, SDN, Software-defined networks (SDN)

Juniper challenges Cisco, VMware with Contrail Enterprise Multicloud

Juniper releases OpenContrail codebase to Linux Foundation Juniper Networks is upping competition with Cisco, VMware and other enterprises taking up space in the cloud market with

December 18, 2017

commscope, Federated Wireless, Network Infrastructure

Enabling shared spectrum: Software makes CBRS deployments possible

Carriers and other network operators should be able to offer some services using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum as soon as next year. Vendors

December 18, 2017

BitCoin, blockchain, cryptology, decentralization, Devices, Fundamentals, IoT, Software

The role of blockchain in telecommunications

Beyond Bitcoin Blockchain is a buzzword frequently making news headlines, largely due to the numerous use cases it opens up. With roots tracing back to Bitcoin,

December 18, 2017

5G, Carriers, EMEA, millimeter wave, Network Infrastructure, Telecom Italia, TIM

TIM moves towards 5G deployment in Italy

The telco has activated a 5G antenna with millimeter wave support in Turin Italian telecommunications firm TIM, owned by Telecom Italia, announced it has activated what