Saturday, November 30, 2019

Friday, November 29, 2019

5G Is No Panacea for IoT

IoT has been a long time coming and the waiting game continues under 5G. Network operators, vendors, and device makers have been forcefully targeting the opportunity to connect anything anywhere for at least 15 years.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Ukkoverkot's CEO on Building Private Networks

At the 'Private Networks in a 5G World' event in London, Mikko Uusitalo, chairman and CEO at Ukkoverkot, talks about the operating and partnership model that has helped the company deploy 26 private networks in the past 24 months.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Top 5 SD-WAN Takeaways for 2019

SD-WAN reached an inflection point in 2019 as enterprises — driven by equipment replacement cycles, increased reliance on the cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and the promise of reduced costs — have adopted the technology.

It’s now up to Nokia whether it punches back or gets hit again

Nokia’s struggles of late are well-known, but it’s still among the top three vendors—along with Huawei and Ericsson—reaping the benefits of surging 5G New Radio (NR) demand, which propelled the RAN market in the third quarter to a fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth for the first time in over a decade, according to Dell'Oro Group.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Compute Express Link Eyes Hardware Push in 2021

When the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium was formed in March it made waves not only for its lofty aspirations but for the sheer amount of support it received. The proposed interconnect technology seeks to enable a direct memory interface between the CPU and peripheral devices.

Verizon, Ericsson, and Qualcomm Boast DSS Advancements

A trio of telecom juggernauts — Verizon, Ericsson, and Qualcomm — have successfully demonstrated the use of dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) to allow 5G service to operate across different spectrum bands, including spectrum previously held exclusively for 4G LTE.

Gelsinger’s Greatest Hits on VMware’s Q3 Earnings Call

VMware reported another strong earnings quarter with $2.46 billion in third quarter fiscal 2020 revenue, which is a 12% increase from last year. The software giant also increased its guidance for Q4 and full-year 2020 revenue and said this boost in large part will come from its recent Carbon Black and Pivotal acquisitions.

LFN 5G Demo Designed To Excite Kubernetes Community

Heather Kirksey, VP of community and ecosystem development at the Linux Foundation, during a keynote address at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event where she helped demonstrate a Kubernetes-powered end-to-end 5G cloud native network.

Air France Exec on Private Wireless Networks

At the 'Private Networks in a 5G World' event in London, Christian Regnier, Enterprise Technical Architect for Critical LTE/5G/IoT at Air France, talks about the evolution of the airline's private networks strategy and how it's embracing 5G.

AI Foundation delivers third Acumos AI software release

The LF AI Foundation has delivered its third software release for its Acumos AI Project, which includes integration with ONAP and O-RAN. The third release, which is called "Clio," includes features that were designed to more easily onboard AI models, as well as design and manage support for pluggable frameworks and enable federation with ONAP and O-RAN.

Dell reportedly mulls sell-off of RSA cybersecurity business

Dell is reportedly pondering the sell-off of its RSA Security cybersecurity business for at least $1 billion, including debt. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Dell was in the early stages of its discussions, and that there was no guarantee the sale would actually take place.

Devices are key to private networks in unlicensed spectrum

Private LTE networks were once the preserve of mobile operators with licensed spectrum. But the barriers to the adoption of private LTE networks are falling rapidly. The availability of end-to-end, plug-and-play LTE network solutions coupled with the emergence of new unlicensed spectrum bands, will be an industry game changer and will embolden commercial and industrial enterprises to invest in private LTE networks, thus bypassing mobile operators.

HPE's stock drops 4% after reporting Q4 results

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's stock fell by about 4% in after market trading on Monday after reporting its Q4 earnings. Prior to Monday night's dip, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) shares have been on a roll this year by climbing 32%. HPE's shares had bounced back up by almost 2% in early morning trading on Tuesday.

Verizon completes DSS data call with Ericsson, Qualcomm

Verizon and its partners Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies are tooting their collective horn over a proof-of-concept demonstration they conducted using Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), which allows 5G service to run on multiple spectrum bands, including those historically reserved for LTE services.

Monday, November 25, 2019

SD-WAN Vendor GTT Ditches Its Infrastructure Division

GTT Communications earlier this year announced it would begin liquidating assets it had acquired over the past several years. Today, GTT made good on that promise in selecting Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs to help the company offload its infrastructure division.

Dell Posts Mixed Q3 Amid RSA Sale Rumors

Dell Technologies reported mixed results for its third quarter fiscal 2020. The tech giant’s adjusted earnings hit $1.75 per share on non-GAPP revenue of $22.9 billion. This beat analysts’ expected earnings of $1.62 per share. But it missed on Q3 revenue, which analysts forecast to reach $23.04 billion.

Nokia Kills COO Role Amid Struggles

Nokia is heading into the next decade with a smaller C-suite. The Finnish vendor, which has faced some pricing and supply-chain challenges and recently slashed its profit outlook through at least 2020, has discontinued its COO role and announced that Joerg Erlemeier, who currently holds that position, will leave the company after a 25-year run on Jan. 1.

AT&T, Microsoft NEC Work Starts In Dallas

AT&T and Microsoft are taking the first step of their recently announced cloud collaboration to the edge with a limited roll out of network edge compute (NEC) technology that ties together Microsoft’s Azure cloud and AT&T’s network edge locations.

Cisco Boasts 20,000 SD-WAN Customers

Cisco says 20,000 customers use its SD-WAN technology. This number, as of its first fiscal quarter of 2020, includes the vendor’s Viptela and Meraki product lines. And, according to a blog touting the customers count, this crosses all industries and the globe.

Deutsche Telekom Eyes Private Wireless Networks Growth

At the Private Networks in a 5G World event in London, Deutsche Telekom's senior VP of 5G Campus Networks, Antje Williams, explains how the German operator is seeking to develop new business opportunities by providing public and private wireless network services to enterprises in multiple verticals.

T-Mobile sways Nevada, gets AG to drop out of lawsuit

T-Mobile struck another win, this time with the Attorney General of Nevada, who announced  settlement resolving concerns related to the planned merger with Sprint. The announcement came on the same day Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office reached a settlement with T-Mobile.

Optical transport sector enjoys robust Q3—report

The demand for network capacity continued unabated in the recent third quarter, which continued to benefited the optical transport equipment sector. A report by Dell'Oro Group estimated that that wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) revenue grew 3% year-over-year in Q3. The amount of capacity shipped on WDM equipment grew above 30% year-over-year, which led to the increase in Q3 revenues.

Spectrum Enterprise kicks tires on network-as-a-service

At last week's MEF19 conference, Spectrum Enterprise teamed up with some other vendors on a proof-of-concept for intent-based networking. The proof-of-concept (POC) focused on using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data from IoT devices to predict network demand, but the bigger picture is using all of the above for intent-based networking en route to building network-as-a-service architectures.

Sprint counters that the small cells in Long Island do help

Sprint took exception to this story, which reported that the strand-mounted small cells it deployed in Long Island, New York, in collaboration with Altice, didn’t improve its network much. Sprint said that the research the story was covered a time frame after most of these small cells had already been deployed.

TechUK joins the manifesto bonanza

With the UK General Election only weeks away, the chest pumping, and ego stroking will only become more fabulous, but there might have been a few surprises to see a TechUK manifesto emerge.

Sunday, November 24, 2019

KT SAT Conducts World’s First Satellite 5G Connection

KT Corp. said its satellite-operating subsidiary, KT SAT, has successfully conducted the world’s first 5G data transmission with a satellite connection. The test was aimed to expand the fifth-generation technology linked to KT’s 5G network and KT SAT’s KOREASAT 6, located some 36,000 kilometers above the equator, said the leading Korean telecom provider.

Ovum's Talmesio on 5G Private Networks

At the 'Private Networks in a 5G World Event' in London, Ovum analyst Dario Talmesio discusses the business opportunity for mobile network operators in delivering 4G and 5G private networks to enterprises.

AWS: 5G Is ‘Not the Holy Grail of IoT’

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed a series of new IoT features in a bid to bolster its platform leading into its big annual conference next week. The updates include Alexa Voice Service integration, fleet provisioning, and configurable endpoints for AWS IoT Core; container support and a stream manager for AWS IoT Greengrass; and secure tunneling for AWS IoT device management.

5G NR Demand Skyrockets RAN Market, Dell'Oro Says

5G new radio (NR) drove the radio access network (RAN) market to new heights during the third quarter of 2019. This marked the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth for the first time in over a decade, according to the Dell’Oro Group RAN Quarterly report released today.  

AT&T, Juniper Claim 400GbE ‘Firsts’

The push toward commercial 400-gigabit optical connections has surged as AT&T is now carrying traffic over a link in the South and targeted at its 5G network, and Juniper Networks claimed a successful trial with SCinet targeted at the supercomputing space. The best part is that both moves include “industry-first” claims and come as analysts predict the 400 gigabit Ethernet market (GbE) market won’t start to see broader adoption until next year.

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