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Zayo introduces edge network solutions portfolio

The company’s January acquisition of QOS Networks yielded the basis for the newly announced edge offerings Zayo Group Holdings on Wednesday announced the launch of its edge network solutions portfolio. Zayo’s products include Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Unified Communication...

AT&T CTO strategy update: ‘Simple is good’

AT&T is expanding its fiber and wireless networks while planning for multi-service edges and distributed Standalone 5G cores DALLAS--AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg last week at the company’s headquarters met with members of the trade press to lay out a phased, one- to two-year strategy that’s...

Las Vegas taps NTT for ‘largest’ open private 5G network – to drive innovation, revenue

Japan-based NTT has expanded an already-major private LTE and 5G project in the City of Las Vegas, in Nevada in the US, by leading a vendor collective to double the number of network access points across the city, and also to open the infrastructure...

Qualcomm automotive business booming; $30 billion pipeline

Mercedes-Benz taps Qualcomm Snapdragon Digital Chassis for digital cockpit and automotive connectivity Providing its Snapdragon Digital Chassis to the automotive industry has been a major driver of Qualcomm expanding its total addressable market to $700 billion by the end of the decade. Just two months...

Verizon, Visionable to use 5G for improved data access in healthcare

Improving access to care is all about improving access to data, Verizon says Verizon Business and U.K.-based health technology company Visionable are collaborating on a range of connected healthcare solutions. The partnership, which is an expansion of a 2021 agreement, combines Visionable’s patented technology and...

Arm aims Neoverse V2 and E2 at cloud, 5G and edge servers

Arm ups performance and efficiency in new designs to compete with AMD and Intel Fabless semiconductor maker Arm Ltd. has announced new chip designs that will power the next generation of cloud computing, 5G and High-Performance Computing (HPC) hardware coming next year, to compete with products from...

IBM, Airtel build secure edge services for Indian businesses

A look inside the companies’ three-prong strategy with IBM’s head of cloud, 5G, and edge IBM on Wednesday announced a partnership with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to bring forth a massive edge computing project that will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities in...

Volt Active Data & Beechman Research Report: Creating Powerful Customer Experiences with AI & Edge

IN THE AGE OF REMOTE WORK AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, CREATING GREAT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL INITIATIVES FOR COMPANIES OF ALL TYPES.  One of the biggest enablers of delightful customer experiences is data processing speed, and two major components of data processing...

NTT, VMware announce Edge-as-a-Service

The managed service combines VMware’s Edge Compute Stack with NTT’s private 5G NaaS Japanese telco and IT infrastructure company NTT has announced a new collaboration with VMware called Edge-as-a-Service. The managed compute platform leverages VMware’s edge compute stack and NTT’s private 5G network-as-a-service, to help enterprises...

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...

The biggest 5G revenue opportunity depends on edge ML — are telcos ready? (Reader Forum)

One of the most promising new revenue opportunities in 5G is network slicing. This allows spectrum owners to create private wireless networks which they can then rent or lease to enterprise users for short or long durations. By some estimates, the private 5G network...

How will cellular networks support the metaverse?

The metaverse needs a big networking lift, with telcos playing a central role Telcos will be front and center when it comes to providing networking infrastructure to make the metaverse work. Early requirements for the metaverse suggest that Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have a lot...

Architectural principles for enabling edge applications in 3GPP standards

The 3GPP has defined an enabling layer to facilitate communication between the Application Clients and the Edge Application Servers The latest iterations of 3GPP standards have placed added emphasis on support for edge computing, a distributed computing framework that brings computation and data storage...

Cisco reorganizing business groups as exec plans exit

Todd Nightingale leaving Cisco to take on CEO role at Fastly Todd Nightingale, long-time executive vice president and general manager of the Cisco Enterprise Cloud and Networking Group, will become CEO of edge cloud platform provider Fastly on Sept. 1. Cisco, according to an emailed...

Top 5 metaverse ‘metaplaces’: Ericsson sees consumer and enterprise applications

Telecom companies have a major role to play in delivering impactful metaverse experiences The metaverse is kind of a funny thing. It’s not really real just yet but given what we do know about it--a combination of connectivity, compute, graphics rendering, immersive user interfaces and...

Why telcos must transform into techcos — and how to do it (Reader Forum)

Technology revolution is littered with success and failure stories; the first movers set the agenda and it is innovation in process as that generates lower cost, faster time to market and better quality. An analogy is something we take for granted today — robots...

GE Healthcare opens 5G lab in India

GE Healthcare said that the 5G lab will serve as a testbed to develop future-ready products and solutions   GE Healthcare announced the inauguration of its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the company said in a statement. Located at the John F. Welch Technology Centre (JFWTC),...

BT promises easier multi-cloud deployments with Connected Cloud Edge

Using Equinix Fabric and "Carrier Neutral Facilities," BT promises to accelerate enterprise digital transformation with its new platform.

Edgio emerges from Limelight’s shadow

With Yahoo Edgecast fully acquired, Edgio promises the fastest web applications on the planet running on its global edge network In March, Limelight Networks announced plans to acquire Yahoo Edgecast. The company signed a definitive agreement to acquire Yahoo’s Edgecast business unit in an all-stock transaction...

Why AI at the edge is the future of smart homes (Reader Forum)

Forget the cloud; more and more devices today are connecting at the edge. Better yet, they’re more powerful thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning. This one-two punch of smarter, nearer devices is transforming what devices can do in the Internet of Things (IoT). The...

Where music and technology meet: Verizon, Pandora announce virtual, 5G-supported concert

The performance will feature a virtual environment using 3D images captured at the Verizon 5G Lab in Los Angeles Verizon is using its edge compute capabilities and its 5G Ultra Wideband network — the brand name for its C-Band and mmWave network — to deliver...

Well, technically… when network traffic changes, so must the architecture: Ciena’s Gina Nienaber (Ep. 72)

As network operators continue the shift to 5G and as they look for ways to bring the network closer to their customers, a call for simplifying network management has been issued. Gina Nienaber, the director of Product Marketing, Routing and Switching Portfolio at Ciena,...

From NFV to SaaS on the path to programmability

Nokia on the role of SaaS for telecom workloads: A vision of a “fully-automated network on demand” AUSTIN—As virtualization, at this point mature in the core network, is making an impact on how radio access networks are architected and operated, there’s a line of thinking...

BT unveils new green edge compute solution

Working towards 2030 sustainability British Telecom (BT) this week announced a new edge compute solution as part of its manifesto to help customers reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 million tons by the year 2030. The new effort uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by QiO...