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Nokia unveiled a “templating system” it said is based on ETSI NFV, TOSCA and OpenStack specs designed to simplify VNF management and orchestration. The exceedingly complicated process of virtual network function lifecycle management could be gaining some help with Nokia …

NFV and SDN deployments remain sporadic, though development advances have bolstered platforms with the focus now on making them work better. On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Michael Brenner, chief architect for Network Functions Virtualization at Gigaspaces, …

AT&T encountered some issues during the launch of its DirecTV Now platform this week, while Sprint kicked some sand in the face of 600 MHz spectrum. Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot …

A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for “internet of things” technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed to help farmers use data to become more “productive, prosperous …

PwC’s Strategy& division looks at the impact the removal of smartphone subsidies and new era of used devices and trade-ins is having on carriers and OEMs. The domestic cellular market has witnessed a wave of new operating models highlighted by …

Sigfox announced earlier this month it is closing a $160 million (150 million euros) funding round it intends to use on expansion of its low power wide area network. Companies including Salesforce, Total, Henri Seydoux, Alto Invest, Swen CP and Tamer …

Edge Computing Consortium members include Huawei, Intel, ARM and Chinese institutions. Chinese vendors, together with Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Intel, ARM and ISoftStone established the Edge Computing Consortium …

Nokia was very busy 1 year ago this week, with the vendor closing on the sale of its Here mapping unit, while shareholders approved its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia closes $3 billion sale of Here mapping unit Telecom solutions powerhouse …

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked …

Fresh food: A growing use case for machine learning. Machine learning can help retailers address the challenges of offering fresh foods, which account for up to 40% of a grocers’ revenue and one-third of the cost of goods sold, according …

U.K. mobile operator EE and Huawei said they reached mobile broadband speeds of 2.1 gigabits per second over an LTE-Advanced network in a recent lab test. “We are committed to innovating and to be pushing the mobile industry forward by …

MQTT and the internet of things. MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Its design …

On the road to 5G, the Chinese vendor looks to carry out new trials of massive MIMO technology next year. TOKYO – ZTE is in talks with Japanese mobile operators to carry out trials of massive multiple-input/multiple-output antenna technology next …

Audi’s Ingolstadt, Germany, factory is its largest and the second largest in Europe, producing 566,646 cars in 2015. It is where the auto manufacturer produces its A3, A4, A5, Q2 and Q5 models and is considered by the company as …

Cloud security plans require telecom operators and enterprises to think about total protection processes and take into account software platforms. Telecommunication operators are increasingly turning towards virtualized platforms in order to bolster agility, reduce costs and better position themselves to …

We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company’s view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible …

What is CEP? Complex event processing is an emerging network technology commonly used in the “internet of things” that uses distributed message-based systems, databases and applications to derive conclusions from data in real time or near-real time. It is a …

Defining digital transformation. Digital transformation is a term that has reached just about every company in every industry. It has been debated by analysts, thought leaders and executives. Digital transformation is a broad concept for the fundamental transformation of companies …

Cloud access security brokers are seen as one way telecom operators can ensure robust protection as they venture into the cloud. With telecom operators increasing their reach into cloud environments, steps need to be taken in order to ensure such …

Clothing retailer looks for lighting savings at distribution center. We have all seen a pair of jeans with an eagle stitched in them, or at least seen that iconic Americana logo during a trip to the mall. American Eagle Outfitters is …

Cloud security challenges are only expected to be exacerbated by forecast growth in the internet of things. A growing security threat in the telecom and cloud space is around the “internet of things,” which is forecast to eventually connect tens …

Integration, orchestration and security noted by Radware as key challenges facing ongoing SDN, NFV and cloud deployment models. On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Frank Yue, director of application delivery solutions at Radware, on development, deployment and …

Keysight Technologies reported flat year-over-year revenues in the most recent quarter, but delivered at the high end of its guidance to Wall Street. Revenues were $751 million for Keysight’s fiscal fourth quarter, compared to $750 million during the same period …

Connecting everything: news bytes for 11/18 1. Samsung will manufacture Qualcomm’s newest processor, the Snapdragon 835. Samsung says it will be the first chipmaker to enter mass production of 10 nanometer FinFET technology. FinFET is a 3D chip manufacturing technology …

New IoT solutions for age-old problems The increasing capabilities and awareness of the “internet of things” are providing more avenues for companies and organizations to keep the environment safe. Here are use cases of how IoT can help protect and restore …