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RCR Wireless News Top 100 stories of 2016 (Pt. 4)

Google Fiber plans in flux; 5G progress and standards challenges; and M&A activity highlight final round of RCR Wireless News top 100 stories of 2016. Editor’s Note: Before we turn the page on 2016, we thought we would take a look back...

Nokia, Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei partner on NFV interoperability

NFV Interoperability Testing Initiative formed by Nokia, Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei in pact to accelerate commercial NFV implementations. A cadre of high-level telecommunication vendors formed the NFV Interoperability Testing Initiative in a move to conquer continued multivendor interoperability testing challenges for network...

NFV trends and open source SDN work with OpenDaylight

Open source continues to gain momentum and is said to remain central to ongoing development and deployment of NFV and SDN for telecommunication operators The open source community remains active in bolstering support for the telecommunication market’s move towards network virtualization platforms using software-defined networking...

ETSI open source MANO work launches Release One stack

ETSI continues to move on its open source MANO work in support of telecom NFV plans, releasing the latest OSM stack focused on VNF, SDN controller support The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO initiative continued to feed software into the management and orchestration...

ETSI plugfest to test smart transportation in November

ETSI plugfest to feature live road tests in Italy A two-week live test event in Livorno, Italy, will put intelligent transport systems from a number of global companies on the road and under scrutiny for interoperability and standards conformance. The plugfest, focused on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure...

Digital Greenwich to host 5G smart city incubator with 5GIC

The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich have partnered to co-create and trial new 5G smart city technology. The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), one of Europe’s largest research centre dedicated to 5G, has partnered with the Royal Borough...

Industry 4.0 understanding lacking among UK manufacturers

UK manufacturers lack understanding of Industry 4.0, a new survey found. This could put UK manufacturing at risk of being left behind as other countries embrace Industry 4.0. While a majority of UK manufacturers (59 percent) recognize that Industry 4.0 will have a big impact...

Industry 4.0 understanding lacking among UK manufacturers

UK manufacturers lack understanding of Industry 4.0, a new survey found. This could put UK manufacturing at risk of being left behind as other countries embrace Industry 4.0. While a majority of UK manufacturers (59 percent) recognize that Industry 4.0 will have a big impact...

What is mobile edge computing?

Bringing intelligence closer to the end user: What is mobile edge computing and why is it important? Mobile Edge Computing is a network architecture concept that offers application developers and content providers cloud-computing capabilities and an information technology service environment at the edge of the mobile network. This...

What is mobile edge computing?

Bringing intelligence closer to the end user, what is mobile edge computing and why is it important? Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a network architecture concept that offers application developers and content providers cloud-computing capabilities and an IT service environment at the edge of the...

Open-source NFV for management and network orchestration

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from the past week and speak with Rift.io on the use of open-source NFV for management and network orchestration This week’s featured interview is with Rift.io where we discuss the use of...

ETSI Open Source MANO group releases initial code package

ETSI claims Release 0 from its Open Source MANO initiative unveiled one month ahead of schedule, with Release 1 expected within six months The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO initiative rolled out its Release 0 code package, which it claims integrates seed code...

#TBT: Sprint restructures for cable split; Enron IoT plans … this week in 1998

Sprint restructure plans progress in move to allow cable split, while Enron moves forward on IoT plans … 18 years ago this week. Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from...

Telcos embrace webscale agility through virtualization

Comptel partners with Telefónica, Orange on NFV, virtualization for TM Forum Live catalysts NICE, France – Competition from over-the-top players leveraging massive cloud operations to quickly bring services to market is forcing telcos to look to virtualization, automation and new business models to maintain competitiveness....

ETSI Mobile Edge Computing ISG releases trio of specs

ETSI’s Mobile Edge Computing ISG looks to define MEC terminology, lay out technical requirements and use cases for mobile network deployments The European Telecommunications Standards Institute released a trio of “foundation-level” group specifications through its Mobile Edge Computing Industry Specifications Group, which it claims define...

Test and Measurement: P3 Group opens new Mobility Innovation Center for automotive

P3 Group’s automotive division is opening a new automotive-focused Mobility Innovation Center in the metro Detroit, Mich. area and plans to hire nearly 100 people this year to focus on research and development in advanced automotive technologies. The 25,000-square foot facility in Southfield, Mich....

Nokia integration and updates to CloudBand platform

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with Ron Haberman, VP of Nokia Network’s CloudBand Business Unit, to discuss platform updates and get an overview on carrier adoption Nokia Networks recently closed on its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, which bolstered its equipment and services portfolio...

ETSI NFV work continues to gain steam, tackle challenges

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to get an update on the organization’s work in developing standards for NFV ETSI initiated standards work for NFV back in late 2012, starting with collaboration with seven telecom network...

ETSI Open Source MANO group set for aggressive NFV work

The ETSI OSM group announced leadership structure and roadmap for first specification release in 2 months, subsequent updates every 6 months The European Telecommunications Standards Institute said its Open Source MANO group has laid out a roadmap for work this year on management and orchestration...

OPNFV releases Brahmaputra NFV platform

OPNFV unveiled its second NFV platform, promising greater interoperability and testing The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform Network Function Virtualization Project launched its second platform release dubbed Brahmaputra. OPNFV, which teased the platform late last year, said Brahmaputra is the organization’s “first full experience with a massively...

ETSI taps open source software for MANO specs

ETSI said it has tasked its OSM group to use open source software for MANO tied to NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute this week said it have begun work on using open source software for management and orchestration of network functions virtualization in connection...

ETSI NFV ISG touts collaboration progress from workshop

ETSI NFV ISG said meeting was first to bring together standards, open source community The European Telecommunications Standards Institute recently concluded an industry workshop designed to align cloud- and network- centric initiatives behind the move towards the deployment of network functions virtualization through automation. The...

Test and Measurement: Industry agrees on standards for LPWA IoT

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project accepted specifications developed by industry players for low-power wide area network development, expected to be a major piece of the "Internet of Things" in terms of devices that send small amounts of data, require a long battery life and may...

Test and Measurement: Keysight posts strong results

Keysight Technologies beat analysts' expectations when it posted fourth-quarter and full-year results this week, with what company officials described as "strong profit in a soft market." In terms of quarterly Keysight results, revenues were down 1% year-over-year and net income was $277 million. Net...