Orchestration solution includes automation, assurance tools from CENX acquisition
With limited 5G deployments commercially available in some key global markets right now and operators set to quickly scale out coverage, the early focus is on enhanced broadband, both fixed wireless and mobile, with revenue not...
IBM discusses how cloud and telecommunications, along with AI, are converging
Early 5G deployments are limited in coverage scope and capacity but, as operators fine tune their spectrum allocation, scale service offerings and the technology continues to mature, expect much more than simply an enhanced...
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 with this type of demand,...
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 types that will connect over...
The cloud is a powerful transformational agent for emerging markets, but only when dovetailed with other emerging and evolving digital technologies to deliver complete solutions. The International Data Corporation or IDC's top 10 predictions for IT, 2019, says that by 2022, 40% of organizations’...
Edge computing sites will be pre-integrated to support CBRS
There's broad consensus in the telecom industry that building out edge infrastructure will be key to delivering latency-sensitive 5G use cases, as well as enabling enterprise and industrial initiatives that fit under the umbrella of digital...
Software-defined infrastructure focuses on using common hardware to support variable 5G workloads
As service providers increasingly take an IT-centric approach to building and managing increasingly complex networks, there's a move toward swapping out single-purpose hardware for more flexible infrastructure that uses software to virtually spin-up...
As enterprises seek to modernize and digitalize their operations, application and cloud integration issues are costing about half of large enterprises between $250,000-$500,000 per year, according to a new survey -- and 4% of respondents reported that poor integration costs their business as much...
Given huge mobile gaming market, 5G and cloud could provide a big boost to on-the-go gamers
Spurred by mega-hit games like Fortnite and PUBG, mobile gaming is quickly becoming a massive market that operators and the telecoms ecosystem at large can not only support but...
The new technology will use hardware from Intel and cloud computing capabilities provided by the Chinese firm
Intel and Chinese tech giant Alibaba say they are developing athlete tracking technology powered by artificial intelligence that is aimed to be deployed at the Olympic Games Tokyo...
Service assurance and analytics company MYCOM OSI has been acquired by private equity Inflexion, which said that the telecom industry's transition to 5G and internet of things services represents a significant opportunity for MYCOM OSI's cloud-based assurance solutions. Financial terms of the deal were...
When the cloud first popped up on our radar several years ago, there was plenty to get excited about. However, in those early days there was also plenty to be concerned about. We didn’t know what to be on the lookout for. There were...
Distributing machine learning is key to latency-sensitive applications
Today, the vast majority of machine learning algorithms are run in centralized cloud computing facilities. But as 5G opens up a new set of latency-sensitive applications, doing machine learning just in the cloud won't be enough, which...
IBM wants to maintain Red Hat "open source innovation"
As it stands, IBM's cloud customers have moved around 20% of their workloads to the cloud, according to CEO Ginni Rometty. She called that chapter one. Chapter two is moving the other 80%, which she said...
Oracle looking from non-standalone 5G NR to standalone 5G NR
Current and near-term standards-based 5G deployments are focused on the non-standalone 5G New Radio specification, but that's just a first step. That will be followed by an upgrade cycle to the standalone 5G NR spec,...
Analysts’ predictions for the edge computing market include rosy expectations, although they vary significantly in sizing the market and its rate of growth over the next few years. Gartner, in a report commissioned by Equinix, went so far as to posit that “the edge...
Service providers key link between enterprises and multi-cloud opportunity: 451 Research
Cloud infrastructure vendor VMWare on Aug. 23 reported a 13% year-over-year increase in Q2 revenues to $2.17 billion, which CEO Pat Gelsinger chalked up to the expanding adoption of cloud-based solutions as enterprises, service...
RAN is part of larger 5G, cloud strategy
Orange Poland is continuing with its 5G strategy most recently by working with network infrastructure vendor Nokia to test out a cloud-based radio access network. The cloud RAN trial, which ran from March to May, saw radio...
To quote the famous Rolling Stones song, “You can’t always get what you want, but you can get what you need.” That’s wisdom for communications service providers (CSPs) and the large, global enterprises, who own networks that rival the size, scope and scale of...
Cloud-native approach necessary to deal with complexity of 5G
As it continues to develop, 5G will eventually require a fully virtualized, software-controlled network in order to automate the complexity of network management and service delivery. Although we're not there yet, test and proofs-of-concept like Deutsche...
Frontier Business is expanding their AnyWare business service offering. They let users manage their company’s usage through the Frontier Cloud. This service is growing into a fully integrated set of services that is easy to manage for any business over the cloud. Let’s take...
With the transformation from hardware-centric networks to networked cloud platforms, the relationship between telecommunications companies (telcos) and their server(s) is inherently changing. Cloud computing introduced a software design paradigm that required a change in the ways enterprise and telco approach operations, and with it...
Networking and security IT infrastructures have evolved to a level of complexity unmanageable by operators and enterprises using a conventional approach. The ongoing reliance upon legacy network hardware and disjointed WAN architectures inhibit the operational agility required by global organizations looking to digitize business...
Computer scientists from UCSB team up with citrus researchers to make a smart farm system that reports temperatures and may eventually automate the use of wind machines that keep frost off citrus crops.
Computer science researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara are using...
