Monthly Archives: February, 2018
European LoRa roaming by year-end, as network deployments double
European LoRaWAN roaming will be completed by the end of the year, said the LoRa Alliance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
European network...
EXFO wraps up Astellia takeover
EXFO has achieved its takeover of French performance monitoring and analytics company Astellia for about $31.6 million.
EXFO said today that it has acquired 97.44%...
Demand for security drives Palo Alto second quarter revenue growth
Palo Alto Networks announces second quarter earnings
Palo Alto Networks released financial results for its fiscal second quarter 2018. The fiscal second quarter 2018 grew 28%...
T-Mobile US pins its 5G strategy on mobile 5G in 2019
T-Mo plans 5G deployments, 25K LAA small cells
T-Mobile US laid out plans to start building out 5G and "5G-ready" capabilities in 30 markets this year,...
Data center trends to watch out for in 2018
Data center themes
Data centers are evolving with the shift toward virtualization. As organizations seek to take advantage of the cloud to manage day-to-day business...
ZTE sees Asia, Europe as key markets for 5G deployments
The Chinese vendor said it expects to ship 300,000 small cells this year globally
BARCELONA- ZTE expects to see growing business opportunities with 5G in...
5G to reach 1.2 billion connections globally by 2025, GSMA says
The GSMA estimates that IoT connections will total 25 billion by that year
BARCELONA- 5G networks will reach 1.2 billion connections by 2025, accounting for...
Smart cities offer brightest hope for carriers, says former AT&T chief
Glenn Lurie, the former president of AT&T Mobility, reckons smart cities are the single most promising new market for network operators.
Lurie, now chief executive...
Moves toward virtualization, enterprise adoption mark DAS vendor news from MWC
Zinwave, SOLiD, JMA Wireless, Verizon make DAS announcements
BARCELONA—As the telecommunications industry continues its gradual shift to increasingly virtualized, streamlined hardware and software solutions, major...
GE urges telcos to follow its lead on IIoT innovation
Telecoms carriers should urgently marry innovation with new working practices if they are to capitalise on the opportunity of the industrialised 'internet of things'...
Qualcomm open to Broadcom offer — if it’s higher
Qualcomm's most recent meeting with Broadcom seems to have somewhat thawed Qualcomm's frosty reception to a Broadcom takeover -- although Qualcomm still wants to...
Ericsson, Argus collaborate on cyber security for connected vehicles
Ericsson and Argus working together on protecting automative ecosystem
Automotive cyber security company Argus announced it is collaborating with Ericsson in an effort to bring...
FCC plans small cell rule changes
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, chairman Ajit Pai's point person for wireless infrastructure, says his agency is preparing to change some of the rules that...
GTT to boost cloud connectivity platform in $2.3 billion Interoute acquisition
GTT announcement agreement to purchase Interoute
GTT Communications, Inc. announced a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Interoute, operator of one of Europe's largest independent fiber...
Coriant, Aricent combine solutions to deliver NFV, SDN capabilities
Coriant integrates Aricent's NFV MANO
Coriant is integrating Aricent’s network functions virtualization (NFV) management and orchestration (MANO) framework to accelerate and power its Transcend SDN-solution....
Sprint names ‘5G-ready’ markets for massive MIMO
Sprint plans massive MIMO roll out in 6 markets starting in April
Sprint plans to deploy massive multiple-input-multiple-output capabilities in half a dozen markets beginning...
China Unicom, ZTE, Intel to launch edge cloud trials
China Unicom also announced the launch of its edge cloud service platform
BARCELONA- Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom has announced the launch of large-scale edge...
Deutsche Telekom to launch 5G commercial trials this year
Deutsche Telekom also announced a smart energy testbed connected by 5G
BARCELONA- Deutsche Telekom expects to launch 5G commercial trials in Europe during 2018, Claudia...
Cisco debuts global NB-IoT control platform; Ericsson nabs NB-IoT deal in Taiwan
Cisco has launched the first commercially available global narrow-band IoT (NB-IoT) platform, it said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday (February 27th)....
Ericsson and China Mobile to establish joint IIoT innovation lab
Ericsson and China Mobile have signed a strategic framework agreement at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to collaborate on new enterprise and industrial...
Telenor and Cisco to work with smart cities in Norway
Telenor and Cisco are to establish a “joint lab environment” to develop smart cities solutions for civic authorities and services providers in Telenor’s home...
Virtualization, backhaul drive AT&T 5G plans
VP of RAN and Device Design discusses 2018 5G market launches
BARCELONA—“We’ve got 12 cities we’ve committed to this year. My priority in ’18 is...
Four predictions for the cellular IoT market
Internet of things devices with cellular connectivity make up a substantial portion of the overall IoT market, particularly in the enterprise space where wide-area...
AT&T to integrate Cisco Kinetic into its smart city proposition
AT&T is looking to integrate Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities platform into a number of its own city-focused solutions, notably its Smart Cities Operations Center...
AT&T signs Caterpillar in global IoT management deal
AT&T has struck a multi-year deal with U.S.-based Caterpillar to supply IoT connectivity and management services across its international markets.
Caterpillar, manufacturer of construction...