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Ericsson said it will continue to supply the hardware and software for Swisscom’s network under the extended deal Swiss telco Swisscom and Swedish vendor Ericsson announced they have extended their strategic partnership for another three years. In a release, the vendor said it will continue to...

IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and SAMEER have been working to develop a 5G RAN sub-system at a local 5G testbed A 5G radio access network (RAN) technology developed by an Indian multi-institutional team has been licensed to local firm Tejas Networks, part of the Tata...

In the dynamic world of network traffic management, the concept of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) has been a subject of intense debate in recent years. As concerns around data privacy and cybercrime have grown, the use of encryption technologies to secure data across public...

The cellular radio system for mobile devices has seen a substantial transformation over the past few years from one that is based on individual component assembly to a complete, modem-to-antenna, Radio Frequency (RF) system design. The latest wave of development has brought Artificial Intelligence...

The supply chain crisis is the worst it’s been for 50 years and industry leaders expect issues to continue this year. Impacted by challenges from COVID-19, the conflict in Ukraine, the fuel crisis and labour shortages, sourcing hardware is now a defining challenge for...

Ericsson announced its latest 5G indoor radio unit, called IRU 8850, which is suited for medium-to-large venue coverage Ericsson said it has expanded its indoor mobile connectivity portfolio with three new solutions aimed at delivering 5G coverage, capacity and capabilities across the interior of any...

ZTE said its 5G new radio (NR) gNodeB product has complied with the security requirements of Germany Chinese vendor ZTE said its 5G New Radio (NR) gNodeB product has been approved under Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)’s NESAS (network equipment security assurance scheme)...

Cisco had installed its first manufacturing unit in India in 2016 U.S. networking company Cisco Systems will set up a facility in India to manufacture hardware products, local newspaper The Economic Times reported, citing a source with knowledge of the matter. "Cisco is setting up a...

Rakuten Symphony noted that the Symware device is based on the Intel Xeon D processor Rakuten Symphony announced the general availability for its Symware Open RAN distributed edge product, along with its plans to deploy 30,000 units across Rakuten Mobile’s network in Japan. The Japanese company...

Italian-American IoT module maker Telit has followed up its deal for the cellular IoT division of French firm Thales with the purchase of California-based custom IoT solutions startup Mobilogix for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition has closed already, said Telit. Mobilogix will make Telit...

According to IDC, China will represent 60% of the regional IoT spending in 2022   IoT spending in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is forecasted to reach $436 billion in 2026, growing at a CAGR of 11.8% during the 2021-2026 period, according to a new report by...

Arm has issued a flurry of announcements related to its Cortex-M and Cortex-A processor families, restating its mission to “streamline” embedded computing for the IoT developer market. Among the new releases, the UK-based firm has launched a new top-of-the-line Cortex-M processor, the Cortex-M85, offering...

Dell Technologies and Dish have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement to support the latter’s Open RAN-based 5G network in the U.S. Under this partnership, Dell Technologies will provide Dish with network and edge-compute infrastructure. “By collaborating with Dell Technologies, we will have the hardware and software...

Internet of Things (IoT) spending in Europe is expected to reach $202 billion in 2021 and will continue to experience double-digit growth through 2025, according to a recent report by IDC. Despite the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IoT market still experienced growth,...

U.K. telco Vodafone has announced the launch of an Open RAN (O-RAN) test and validation laboratory on its Newbury campus, the operator said in a statement. The operator said that the new lab will be the first dedicated research and development facility for O-RAN in...

Director of Product Innovation at NXP Semiconductors Amanda McGregor discusses the impact on energy consumption of the growing popularity of smart devices in our homes and what can be done on the hardware level to ensure device optimization.

Disaggregation of hardware and software is "a major advancement for operators" Formed in 2016 as an engineering-focused, collaborative methodology for building and deploying global telecom network infrastructure, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has landed some important members of the global telecom world including T-Mobile, SK...

  Nokia opened a 5G lab at its global headquarters in Espoo, Finland, with the aim of enabling customers to experience the vendor’s portfolio of 5G equipment, software and services. The 5G Future X Lab will enable communications service providers, enterprises and infrastructure providers to see...

  The Chinese vendor said customers will be able to have access to the source code of its products BARCELONA--ZTE plans to open three labs during 2019, with the aim of allowing customers to have access to the source code of the vendor’s products, ZTE’s Chief...

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...

U.S ban on ZTE could also negatively impact China’s 5G program Chinese vendor ZTE’s business could be heavily impacted if the company fails to reach an agreement with the U.S government over a ban which prohibits U.S companies from exporting components to ZTE for a...

Choosing a host infrastructure The Infrastructure hosting market can feel overwhelming with the variety of technologies and platforms available. Generally speaking, however, infrastructure hosts fall into two categories: bare metal infrastructure and hypervisor-based infrastructure. To help determine which infrastructure host works best for your company,...

The Linux Foundation and OCP tag team open source hardware/software initiative The virtualization of network functions has resulted in a disaggregation of hardware and software, increasing interest in open source projects for both layers in return. To feed this interest, the Linux Foundation and Open...

From physical to virtual IT departments are becoming virtualized in an effort to deliver more services with less financial resources. Migrating from legacy systems to virtual systems doesn’t happen overnight, however. It is a gradual process that often requires many steps. Nevertheless, it is possible...