BROWSING: Telco Cloud

South Africa will be Google’s first region; the company also announced two new Nordic regions, Austria and Greece Google Cloud is expanding services throughout Europe with new regions planned for Austria, Greece, Norway and Sweden. What’s more, it’s bringing its services locally to the African...

VMware said that the Next G-AI Research and Innovation Center is part of the TETRA initiative VMware announced the opening of the VMware Next G-AI Research and Innovation Center in Montreal, Canada. In a release, the company noted that the new facility will bring together VMware's...

'The cloud is not industry specific,' says AWS exec Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn’t use the term “telco cloud” because, as the company’s Head of Worldwide Business Development for Communication Service Providers Sameer Vuyyuru told RCR Wireless News in an MWC Las Vegas meeting room,...

The company’s January acquisition of QOS Networks yielded the basis for the newly announced edge offerings Zayo Group Holdings on Wednesday announced the launch of its edge network solutions portfolio. Zayo’s products include Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Unified Communication...

Swisscom is putting the 'world-first' tech to work in its newly deployed 5G network, Ericsson said Ericsson on Tuesday announced a collaboration with network performance app developer Netscout and Swiss telco Swisscom, to produce a new cloud-based solution aimed at “dramatically increasing” 5G service assurance,...

Network Data Analytics Function is first out of the gate Oracle this week announced Network Analytics Suite, a new portfolio of cloud-native network analytics solutions created to help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) gain insights around the performance and stability of their 5G network core. The first...

Throughout the Open RAN Global Forum (register for on-demand access to the virtual event here), there was a recurring theme around Open RAN being part of a larger technological transformation encompassing the move towards cloud, software, data and more IT-centric operations. This shift is...

Big Blue will make Red Hat Storage its own, and promises to keep ODF, Ceph and others 100% open source IBM announced on Wednesday plans to integrate Red Hat’s storage products and associate teams into IBM’s Storage business unit. The goal, said IBM, is to...

TCS will host its Cognitive Network Operations Platforms on Wind River Studio, said a TCS VP Wind River announced this week a collaboration with Tata Consulting Services (TCS), the IT services consulting business of Indian multinational Tata. The two companies will work together to create...

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is foundational to 5G services to drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise and manufacturing: low-latency, massive device density, and more. Optimizing the telco cloud to deliver these new services starts at the 5G Core and goes to the...

Adaptive Service Assurance correlates quality KPIs with Amazon CloudWatch telemetry, EXFO said Network testing and monitoring solution vendor EXFO on Monday announced that its Adaptive Service Assurance (ASA) solution is available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The product makes it easier for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to...

It is an open secret in the telco software business that software is often the smaller part of a software provider’s revenues. The rest is made up of long and expensive integrations, supplemented by a “long tail” of customization requests. But the end is...

Read Verizon's approach to Open RAN Part 1—vRAN to Open RAN The Verizon Cloud Platform bringing “significant benefits” around network automation and orchestration Network virtualization, including virtual radio access network (vRAN) deployments, has been a massive, long-term process for Verizon, and laid the foundation for...

Dell and Wind River are offering CSPs out-of-the-box Open RAN and VRAN deployments Dell Technologies this week introduced Telecom Infrastructure Blocks, a new telco cloud infrastructure solution the company co-engineered with Wind River. The "blocks" offer Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with simplified telco cloud network deployment...

VMware’s telco cloud automation and service assurance offerings also get new features and enhancements VMware on Thursday announced changes to its telco cloud portfolio that it says will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with modernization efforts around 5G, Radio Access Network (RAN) and edge computing deployments. The...

The company’s security products will protect Telus’s 5G core, internet perimeter and IoT deployments Palo Alto Networks announced Wednesday that Canadian telco Telus has selected the company to secure its 5G network. Telus will use Palo Alto’s hardware and software firewalls to protect network interfaces...

“AI and ML have been a core part of our offering for a decade plus,” said Fortinet’s VP of products Cybersecurity software maker Fortinet announced Tuesday enhanced Artificial Intelligences Operations (AIOps) capabilities across its network software portfolio, including its Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), wired and wireless...

The partnership yields "a very competitive joint offering" for private 4G and 5G, according to ng-voice's CEO Telecom software maker ng-voice has announced a new partnership with telco infrastructure software maker Casa Systems which ng-voice says will yield fully cloud-native 4G and 5G solutions for...

When going to cloud-native 5G, forget what you know about telecoms: Dish exec Said Berrahil U.S. operator Dish is in process of building out a cloud-native 5G network that adheres to Open RAN principles and specifications. Extending from this idea of a cloud-native network, the...

Now Platform Tokyo gets telco features “with service delivery, care, and assurance in mind” Enterprise workflow management software maker ServiceNow has announced the release of Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI), a workflow management solution to help telco network engineers design and build network resources and services. TNI is...

The investment is thought to be a response to an unprecedented revenue slowdown for Alibaba In an effort to combat a historical slowdown, Alibaba has revealed a $1 billion investment to support its international cloud computing customers and partnerships. The investment, which will be injected...

AWS, Microsoft and Google combined generate about 81% of revenues in the U.K. public cloud infrastructure services market British media regulator Ofcom has initiated an investigation into whether Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s cloud computing dominance is a threat to market competition. In a statement that acknowledged...

The new SSE offering expands Orange’s growing telco cloud cybersecurity portfolio Orange, through its Orange Business Services and Orange Cyberdefense groups, and cybersecurity firm Netskope announced Thursday they’ll embed Secure Service Edge (SSE) functionality in the Orange Telco Cloud platform. The two firms are calling the new solution “carrier-class...

Optiva counts an unnamed Canadian telco among its customers for the new service OSS/BSS software developer Optiva has announced that its Optiva Charging Engine is now available through Google Cloud Marketplace. The company claims it to be the first 5G telecom charging solution to be made available...