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Nvidia earnings fall short on gaming glut

Supply chain issues affected Nvidia’s data center sales, and weak guidance suggests a soft Q3 as well Nvidia announced Q2 earnings after the markets closed on Wednesday, posting revenue of $6.7 billion for the quarter ending July 31, 2022. Net revenue dropped 72% year over year (YoY)...

Rakuten Mobile announces Open vRAN lab in Japan

Rakuten Mobile is carrying out joint R&D activities with the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile announced the opening of a lab in which the telco says it utilizes all the technologies and experiences it has gained through...

#TBT: 600 MHz auction hits the skids; Verizon turns up carrier aggregation, Sprint tests 3CCA; Ericsson exec ousters … this week in 2016

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! 600 MHz auction...

Spark claims first trial of 5G SA network in New Zealand

Spark noted that Mavenir, AWS, Nokia and Oppo took part in the 5G SA trial New Zealand operator Spark said it has completed what it claims to be the first end-to-end 5G Standalone network trial in the country. In a release, Spark said it has created...

Casa Systems, Google Cloud flex cloud muscle for telcos and enterprise

The new partnership will accelerate 5G core and 5G SA MEC adoption, said Casa’s CEO Editor's note: Comments from Casa Systems CEO Jerry Guo were added after this article was posted. 5G network solutions provider Casa Systems said this week that it’s partnering with Google Cloud to develop...

NEC, Fortinet team up to bolster 5G security

Key areas will include RAN, mobile roaming, user plane and telco/edge cloud NEC and Fortinet have announced a new partnership aimed at helping Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with 5G security. Fortinet is supplying its security solutions like FortiGate, while NEC is providing professional network integration services for...

Cloud gaming is ‘driving 5G revenue uplifts,’ says Ericsson

According to Ericsson, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G subscribers over the next decade According to a new 5G cloud gaming report published by Ericsson’s strategy consulting arm inCode, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G...

Why is collaborative research key to developing future 6G systems?

According to Keysight Technologies, there is great interest from governments globally to kickstart 6G research Although global deployment of 5G is making solid progress and 3GPP Releases 17 and 18 will certainly enable more advanced 5G applications and use cases in the coming years, numerous...

Auction total nears $400 million

Fewer than 200 licenses are still seeing competition The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 2.5 GHz overlay licenses continues to wend toward its end, with fewer than 200 licenses out of about 8,000 that were still under contention as of Round 52. Comparatively, about 300...

Nokia, Safaricom test FWA in Kenya, claim Africa first in slicing

The live network test enables new enterprise network services for Kenya, said Nokia Nokia says that it has successfully piloted 4G and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing in Kenya with the help of the country’s biggest telco, Safaricom. The live network trial took place in...

Singtel analyzes potential sale of Trustwave: Report

Singtel had acquired Trustwave in 2015 in a transaction valued at $810 million Singaporean telecom operator Singtel is considering whether to sell its cybersecurity business Trustwave Holdings, Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The report revealed that the potential transaction will enable Singtel...

3CCA in 5G: SRG tests T-Mo’s Torrence, CA network

155 megahertz of spectrum was aggregated in the tests on T-Mo's network in California Three component-carrier TDD-FDD carrier aggregation (3CCA) results in better spectral efficiency in 5G, but there are some interesting anomalies in play in regards to devices and spectrum, according to recent testing...

Vodafone to sell Hungary operations to 4iG, state for $1.8 billion

The deal creates “a national ICT champion” for Hungary, said Vodafone’s CEO. Vodafone Group on Monday announced that it’s reached a deal with Hungarian system integrator 4iG and state-owned holding company Corvinus Zrt to sell its Hungarian business in a cash deal worth HUF 715 billion (US$1.8...

India urges telcos to get ready to launch 5G networks

The government of India recently issued 5G spectrum assignment letters India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has officially allocated spectrum to telecom operators, with the issuance of a spectrum assignment letter for 5G networks. Meanwhile, the country’s Telecommunications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has requested that telecom service providers...

Vapor IO expands edge availability

Company says six markets have live deployments and 32 are customer-ready Modular mini-data-center company Vapor IO says that its edge computing grid service is open for business in 32 markets across the U.S., with live deployments in six of those. Vapor is playing up time-to-market...

FCC clears $7.5B Lumen/Brightspeed ILEC deal

Brightspeed plans a five-year, $2 billion fiber buildout in 20 states to help meet rural and suburban needs The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Lumen Technologies’ sale of its incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business to Brightspeed, Lumen announced Monday. Now that the deal...

Cisco tops revenue and profit estimates, cites tech ‘megatrends’

Cisco CEO said company is benefitting from long-term technology shifts towards hybrid cloud, 5G and WiFi 6 Cisco has reported $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter and a net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.8 billion, topping...

Test and Measurement: Keysight touts an ‘exceptional’ Q3

Keysight beat the upper end of its revenue guidance Keysight Technologies exceeded its own expectations on revenue during its fiscal third quarter, with company revenues up 10% year-over-year to $1.38 billion. Profits for the quarter were $338 million, up from $254 million in the year-ago...

Auction action picks up, bids head past $345 million

"Now we're going into the long tail" of the auction, says Sasha Javid, Bitpath COO and auction tracker The 2.5 GHz auction has hit its stride with the move to four rounds of bidding per day. After a first-day total of more than $100 million,...

Nova Labs acquires FreedomFi to accelerate Helium Network rollout

FreedomFi provided Nova Labs with the expertise in telecommunications that it needed to make the Helium Network successful Nova Labs, the founding team behind the peer-to-peer, decentralized Helium Network has acquired FreedomFi. FreedomFi is already integral to the Helium Network as it currently provides software...

Verizon awarded $28.35 million US DoD contract

Verizon will provide integrated voice and data services to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Verizon a new $28.35 million contract. Verizon will provide Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic with integrated...

Extreme Networks launches first outdoor Wi-Fi 6E access point

The outdoor AP combines Wi-Fi 6E, advanced security and AI/ML capabilities in a single solution Extreme Networks revealed the Extreme AP5050, which it claimed is the industry’s first outdoor Wi-Fi 6E outdoor access point (AP) optimized for deployment across all sorts of outdoor venues. The outdoor...

FirstNet board approves $358m budget

"Cellular devices are centric to what we're doing," LAPD commander tells the FirstNet board The First Responders Network Authority board has approved the agency's budget for fiscal year 2023, with the majority going toward network reinvestments with partner AT&T. The budget allocations fell into three categories:...

#TBT: Is throttling necessary?; VoLTE proves its quality; Cisco shifts skills mix … this week in 2014

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Is throttling necessary? Recently...