Cavium, Inc. and China Unicom announced they are launching a program to test 5G technology that leverages Cavium's silicon-based white box hardware in M-CORD racks.
Cavium, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in San Jose, Calif., and China Unicom is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator....
The Telecom Infra Project is rethinking today's telecom infrastructure
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a consortium led by Facebook centered on rethinking how telecom network infrastructure is designed and deployed.
TIP is an offshoot of similar initiative, known as the Open Compute Project (OCP), focused...
Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson is going through a period of transition. On July 25 last year then-CEO of seven years Hans Vestberg stepped down after telling investors that 2016 Q2 operating income fell 22% year-over-year to $326 million. Vestberg was ultimately replaced by...
In a complaint filed with the State of New York Public Service Commission, which regulates telecom companies and considers alleged violations of attendant laws, Charter alleges that Verizon is slowing down expansion of its broadband network by being slow to respond to requests from...
With a new CEO at the helm, Ericsson is divesting assets that are not part of its core businesses, as it works to return to sustainable growth. Today the company said it will sell its power modules unit to Flex for an undisclosed amount....
In-building wireless is a red hot market, particularly given the shift from carrier subsidized deployments to enterprise- or neutral-host led financing models. To better enable enterprise buyers, equipment vendors are looking for ways to take cost and complexity out of DAS and small cells,...
Small cell deployments have lagged behind projections for years. Carriers are largely using the devices to provide pinpoint demand and capacity, but in terms of providing a multi-carrier solution, most commercially available small cells require infrastructure for each carrier. However, companies like Baicells, SpiderCloud...
The rumor mill is working hard. The question is, will Sprint and T-Mobile U.S. finally get together and merge? No one knows. Not even Sprint and T-Mobile. First, they have to decide yes or no. If yes, then the U.S. government has to approve...
Fiber networks require a public-private partnership approach to be economically viable
ORLANDO--Smart buildings turning urban cores into smart cities filled with autonomous cars and drones, and ubiquitous, high seed, low latency networks supporting the needs of consumers, enterprises and the seemingly endless growth of the...
5G Americas says next generation network technology will also support 22 million jobs globally by 2036
TOKYO--5G technology will enable $12.3 trillion in global economic output by 2035, Chris Pearson, head of industry trade group 5G Americas, said during a keynote presentation at the Global 5G...
Genband and Sonus are merging in a deal valued at roughly $745 million. The transaction is structured as a "merger of equals" and will give shareholders of each company approximately 50% of the combined enterprise. Sonus, a public company, saw its stock price rise...
The cable television industry is re-entering the wireless space. First it was Comcast Xfinity Mobile starting its rollout. Now, Charter Spectrum has announced they will also become a wireless provider in 2018. Charter says it will work with Comcast to think through new ways...
Nokia CEO calls the deal "historic"
Although Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, which manufactures switching, transmission and other telecom network infrastructure, have been operating jointly since January 2016, the integration is targeted for an official close in July.
The new joint venture, called Nokia Shanghai Bell,...
Wireless and security led Cisco revenues in Q3 2017
Networking vendor Cisco reported its quarterly financial results this week, showing revenue down for the quarter with an outlook of further declines. To help save money, the company will cut 1,100 jobs.
This latest round of cuts...
Building on research published in January, IHS Markit Chief Economist Nariman Behravesh, writing in a op-ed piece published May 13 by The Hill, shares his view that 5G "will be a technology platform for innovation in virtually every industrial sector, from automotive to healthcare. As...
AT&T and AT&T Mobility launched a new ad campaign staring TV and Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg. The spots just started and they are great. They use humor and Hollywood to capture user imagination. This is typical AT&T. I remember these kind of memorable, funny...
Sprint introduced something they call the "Magic Box," to speed up wireless data connectivity for customers in their homes, offices or when they travel. Like with other wireless carriers, Sprint customers generally have no problem with speed. However, for the customers who live in...
CTO Neville Ray says T-Mobile plans nationwide 5G coverage for 2020 using 600 MHz spectrum
T-Mobile, in usual fashion, is blasting its competitors' 5G efforts, while making big promises of its own; namely, the so-called "Un-carrier" is targeting 2020 for a nationwide 5G deployment using...
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is a better smartphone than previous versions in a few ways, but it is not a home run. The screen is bigger and better. Bixby, their new AI, which I’ve been waiting to try is...
American Tower, which has more than 147,000 communications sites--including towers, distributed antenna systems, rooftops, colocation facilities and other infrastructure sites--in 15 countries on five continents, reported strong first quarter financial results this week, beating estimates and showing growth on key metrics.
Earnings highlights include a...
Dynamic mobile asset enterprises like the fleet industry have long required streams of input from vehicles, equipment, components and people to realize efficiency from chaos – which is the very reason you need big data and IoT.
Omnitracs has always been about the use of...
This executive brief provides a toolkit to help map out how Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can offer advantages in business, what frameworks to use and which areas to evaluate. This toolkit will equip CIOs, CMOs and anyone considering investing in IoT with the...
Surprise! Ready or not, like it or not, Amazon is installing Alexa on your Kindle. Some like this. Others don’t. Many ask what gives Amazon permission to break trust with their customers? An author friend of mine told me what Amazon did to her...
A key element in Teléfonica Deutschland Digital Transformation Journey
Executive Summary
Teléfonica has made customer experience a brand differentiator, with an ambition to grow the Teléfonica and O2 brands by delivering superior customer experiences that subscribers will not find elsewhere. However, despite spending millions on probing...
