Yearly Archives: 2018

FCC to invest $1.5 billion over 10 years in expansion of rural broadband

Money will extend rural broadband to more than 700,000 homes and small businesses With the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's Connect America Fund auction on the...

Computer vision in manufacturing: definition, history and use cases

In terms of digital technology, computer vision is as old as the hills. In popular terms, its theory of expanded machine consciousness emerged just...

Lenovo intros edge computing for city surveillance, Bogota hooks up 3,000 cameras

Lenovo and Pivot3, a provider of ‘hyper-converged infrastructure’ solutions, have struck a deal to develop and sell edge computing products for smart city security....

Three intelligent lighting case studies

Today?s intelligent lighting controls have advanced far beyond simple sensors and time clocks. Companies worldwide are investing in LED lighting, IoT sensors and wireless...

Altice, Dish, RWA all oppose Sprint/T-Mobile US merger

Union says merger could cost 28,000 jobs The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's comment period regarding the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile US merger ended on Aug. 27, and...

What is deep learning?

Deep learning is a machine learning method that uses multiple layers of nonlinear processing units in cascade. It can be supervised, for things like...

Editorial Report: LP-WAN vs. Cellular Connectivity for Intelligent Buildings

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the...

Analyst Angle Report: LP-WAN vs. Cellular Connectivity for Intelligent Buildings

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the...

The underlay network: Abstracting the complexity with SD-WAN 2.0 (Reader Forum)

The benefits of SD-WAN for enterprise networks are now well understood. By creating a managed overlay network with centralized control, enterprises have transformed their...

Sigfox operator UnaBiz raises $10m from KDDI and ENGIE for East-Asia LPWA rollout

Sigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The...

Dell intros enterprise IoT bundles for resellers to target food, gas, manufacturing

Dell Technologies will release a number of pre-integrated and pre-tested computer-vision and machine-intelligence bundles for its resellers to more easily cater to certain edge-computing...

Complexity of 5G requires automation of network operations

The role of AI in transforming network operations management The deployment of 5G will see a massive increase in radio sites as operators densify networks...

Private-public initiative launches national IoT network in Scotland

The Scottish government has invested a total of $3.5 million in this IoT project Business in Scotland will benefit from a new internet of things...

U.S. appoints special compliance coordinator for ZTE

The appointment is part of the settlement between the Department of Commerce and ZTE The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed Roscoe Howard Jr. to...

Japan contemplates what’s beyond 5G

Japan’s communications ministry will start carrying out R&D to develop post 5G standards Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to start carrying out research...

Qualcomm trading at year high with $5.1 billion stock buyback

Qualcomm stock passes $69 per share With the close of an initial round of stock repurchases at midnight Aug. 27, Qualcomm is set to spend...

Ciena White Paper: 5 Key Wireline Network Improvements Needed for 5G

5G is not just about the Radio Access Network (RAN). Next-generation wireless is going to need a lot of help from wireline technologies to...

To fiber or not to fiber, that is the question

Fiber is the workhorse of today's global network infrastructure. But what do you do when fiber is just not an option? Ciena's Brian Lavallée...

National Instruments White Paper: 3GPP Release 15 Overview

In June 2018, a major landmark was hit for 5G--the 3GPP's Release 15 was frozen.  The Non Stand-Alone use case was frozen in December,...

Union says Sprint/T-Mobile US merger will be a job-killer

CWA: 28,000 jobs lost if Sprint/T-Mobile US merger goes forward Contrary to what the companies are telling federal regulators, the Communications Workers of America union...

How does Bluetooth mesh connect IoT devices in smart buildings?

If somebody told you 20 years ago that lighting would become one of the most prolific of smart building technologies in the world today,...

Growing fangs: Immutable workloads and the transforming telco (Reader Forum)

FANG – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google – is taking a bite out of traditional service providers’ business. By competing with telecommunication service providers...

Power-over-Ethernet IoT platform for unified connectivity

While the internet of things and cloud-based services are offering new ways to make buildings smarter and solve energy efficiency and occupant comfort issues,...

Lattice Semiconductor appoints new CEO

Industry veteran Jim Anderson will take over at Lattice next week Lattice Semiconductor is bringing on a new president and CEO, with Jim Anderson to...

Toyota invests $500m in Uber for fleet of autonomous taxi cabs, starting 2021

Toyota is to invest $500 million in Uber, as the pair seek to bring autonomous ride-sharing to the mass-market. The deal values Uber at...
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