For 5G, HPE focused on enabling virtualization, edge services While 5G certainly led most conversations during the recent Mobile World Congress, next in line were supporting technology sets like virtualization and edge computing. At a high level, to successfully build …
Intel and Xilinx reportedly tried to acquire Mellanox The confluence of several technology mega-trends–5G, artificial intelligence and big data analytics–require the support of cloud computing and data centers to efficiently run an increasingly diverse set of workloads. To keep pace …
$5 billion investment will be allocated over four- to five-year timeframe, SoftBank COO says In 2016, SoftBank’s legendary Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son announced the Japanese conglomerate would make a staggering $100 billion in tech-related investments through its Vision Fund. …
Ahead of House Judiciary Committee hearing, T-Mobile pushes home broadband and rural coverage The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on March 7 again paused its 180-day review of the proposed $26 billion T-Mobile US/Sprint merger; according to FCC documentation, the review …
Rakuten says it will build a cloud-native, nationwide network for about $5 billion As operators transition from LTE to 5G, there’s significant discussion around how 5G requires a cloud-native, fully-virtualized design capable of dynamically supporting the myriad applications and device …
5G devices, distributed clouds, in-building, together with LTE Mobile World Congress Barcelona was all about 5G–5G devices to deliver enhanced mobile broadband experiences to consumers; 5G as the great enabler of the internet of things and artificial intelligence; 5G as …
Reps: Sprint/T-Mobile US merger will reduce jobs, hurt competition In a Feb. 28 letter to U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and Makan Delrahim, an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, 37 members of the U.S. …
Ericsson, SOLiD among newest O-RAN Alliance vendor members Operator members of the O-RAN Alliance, which is dedicated to creating open interfaces to enable multi-vendor radio site configurations, want to ultimately get around vendor lock-in, hasten deployment time and lower capital …
Both vendors will supply 5G NR radio gear and other network equipment Last week during Mobile World Congress Barcelona, U.S. Cellular announced a 5G supplier deal with Ericsson and now, a week later, the carrier is diversifying its supplier pool …
Reports say Trump considering 5G as topic for 2020 campaign If you listen to the big four U.S. mobile carriers, two of which have already commercialized different flavors of 5G networks, 2019 is going to be a big year for …
Analysts: Huawei continued to grow telecom equipment market share lead in 2018 As the Chinese company continues to grow its lead in the telecom equipment market, Huawei came on strong last week at Mobile World Congress Barcelona, hitting back at …
The Industry 4.0 movement is regarded in some circles as a magic bullet that will marry technology with manually intensive projects like mining, operating a factor or managing logistics in a port of warehouse. It’s still early days on the …
5G as the ‘nervous system’ for the industrial IoT BARCELONA–Qualcomm is a major force in not just the modems and other components that power smartphones but also in the processes that gives us standards like Wi-Fi, LTE and 5G NR. …
Guenther Ottendorfer joining Ooredoo as CTIO BARCELONA–Ooredoo Qatar this week during Mobile World Congress Barcelona detailed its 5G strategy and announced it will work with network infrastructure vendor Ericsson to deploy some 1,200 next-generation radio sites. Ooredoo is headquartered in …
Verizon also said 5G Home service set for expansion BARCELONA–After a limited launch of its 5G Home service in October last year, Verizon last week added some clarity to its plans for a mobile service–CEO Hans Vestberg, speaking at an …
The first wave of 5G handsets are here BARCELONA–Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, three major smartphone providers–Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei–all unveiled their first 5G capable smartphones. At its Unpacked events in San Francisco and London, Samsung showed off its …
President calls for US leadership in 5G; hints at Huawei? President Donald Trump, who used a Samsung Galaxy s3 as late as 2017 and is known for having “the best words,” apparently has strong opinions not only about burgeoning 5G …
AT&T, Intel, Ericsson, Warner Brothers showing off 5G-powered mixed-reality at MWC Barcelona Augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality–from here on out we’re going to use Qualcomm’s umbrella term, extended reality (XR), have long been hyped as a major 5G …
AT&T and NAB against unlicensed use of 6 GHz; Qualcomm, Wi-Fi Alliance are for opening it up In October last year the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed a notice of proposed rulemaking that considers opening up the 6 GHz band …
Ahead of MWC, Nokia updates ‘anyhaul’ portfolio Over time, delivering on 5G use cases–enhanced mobile broadband, massive IoT and ultra reliable low latency communications, will require massive levels of network densification, particularly for deployments tapping millimeter wave spectrum. While this …
Airspan building in support for massive MIMO, vRAN Radio access network infrastructure vendor Airspan, perhaps best known for its work with Sprint on the Magic Box small cell, has tapped Qualcomm’s 10-nanometer FSM100xx 5G New Radio chipset for small cells …
5G updates cover RAN, core, transport, orchestration Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona next week, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm made clear that while 5G is the subject of significant marketing hype, “It’s not just talk.” Pointing to 5G-related deals with 10 …
Qualcomm X55 5G modem extends support to both millimeter wave and sub-6 GHz frequencies With Mobile World Congress Barcelona set to get underway next week, expect to see a number of 5G New Radio capable device launches to support early …
SAP executives discuss the data demands operators will face in bringing 5G to market Enhanced mobile broadband will allow mobile users to more quickly consume more data, while massive support for the internet of things and ultra reliable low latency …
Open Mobile Evolved Core is part of the larger CORD project In 2017, Sprint worked with Intel Labs on an open source mobile core dubbed C3PO–Clean CUPS Core for Packet Optimization with CUPS meaning Control and User Plane Separation. Now, …
