2018

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 books, some 103 service providers will receive $1.488 billion over the next decade to build …

In terms of digital technology, computer vision is as old as the hills. In popular terms, its theory of expanded machine consciousness emerged just as Bob Dylan and The Beatles took a more experimental musical turn. It has its roots …

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. The city of Bogota, in Colombia, has already hooked up 3,000 surveillance cameras to their new …

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 networking technologies to solve a lot more than just the problem of energy efficiency. As these …

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 as the clock ticked down opponents of the proposed $146 billion deal outlined their objections. …

Deep learning is a machine learning method that uses multiple layers of nonlinear processing units in cascade. It can be supervised, for things like classification, or unsupervised, for pattern analysis and more. IBM’s Romeo Kienzler prefers to use the term …

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the materials used in construction, the needs of a potentially diverse tenant base, and physical location just …

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the materials used in construction, the needs of a potentially diverse tenant base, and physical location just …

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 WAN into an intelligent and automated construct that increases scalability, service agility, and decreases operational complexity …

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 funding included investments from Japanese operator KDDI and French electric utility ENGIE. Further investments came from …

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 and internet-of-things use cases. The bundles, billed as secure and scalable, offer storage, security, network and …

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 to support incredible concentrations of devices and dramatic increases in throughput. At the same time, …

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 network launched through a private-public initiative.The new network, called IoT Scotland, will enable all businesses …

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 be the special compliance coordinator (SCC) for Chinese vendor ZTE. The special compliance coordinator was …

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 and development activities for a new telecommunications standard that will succeed 5G technology, Japanese press …

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 $5.1 billion to buyback more than 76 million shares of common stock for “at or …

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 deliver on its promises. This paper defines five key wireline network improvements that are needed for …

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 details the real-world situations that often dictate the choice between fiber and wireless links for uses …

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, and the Stand Alone use case was frozen in June.  Release 15 is considered the first …

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 says a Sprint/T-Mobile US merger will “result in massive job losses totaling more than 28,000,” …

If somebody told you 20 years ago that lighting would become one of the most prolific of smart building technologies in the world today, no one would have believed it. However, today through the use of internet of things sensors …

FANG – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google – is taking a bite out of traditional service providers’ business. By competing with telecommunication service providers (telcos) to create and optimize the next generation of networks – including the highly anticipated 5G …

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, their disparate nature leaves many IoT devices siloed on the network. Now Igor, a provider of …

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 take the company’s helm effective next Tuesday. Anderson comes to Lattice from Advanced Micro Devices, …

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 $72 billion, despite the company making losses of $4.5 billion last year. Technology from both companies …