Dell’s Omnia Automates HPC, PowerEdge Gets Nvidia Refresh

Dell Technologies today announced the general availability of Omnia, its open source platform for managing high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

Nutanix CEO Eyes $61B Market Opportunity, Sets Profitability Targets

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami, six months into his new gig, has a handful of top priorities as he eyes a $61 billion market opportunity and charts a course to turn his company profitable sooner than Wall Street expected.

Rakuten shows high-speed processing in 5G core trial

Rakuten Mobile achieved high-speed processing for containerized user plane function (UPF) in a standalone 5G core lab trial, with partners NEC and Intel.

John Deere thinks rural 5G could help feed the world

Broadband might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about farming, but an executive from heavy equipment company John Deere argued maybe it should be.

Starry: Columbus expansion marks ‘huge step’ for FWA provider

Starry, the hybrid fixed wireless startup that’s going after some of the same business as more traditional ISPs, earlier this week announced its expansion into Columbus, Ohio, where it’s set to launch its commercial service this summer.

Celona uses eSIM for private wireless networks

Celona is now supporting embedded subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) as part of its private wireless networks offering.

Rakuten Mobile turns to Cisco for optical, IP overhaul

Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile tapped Cisco to help it overhaul its optical and IP infrastructure, planning to deploy technologies which will drastically simplify its architecture and yield substantial cost savings.

Multi-cloud networking 101: Q&A with Volta Networks

Fierce’s Multi-Cloud Networking 101 series takes a look into the future, using a series of progressive interviews with experts to help readers better understand the key foundational concepts and market landscape of multi-cloud networking. This emerging field aims to solve the problems associated with linking networks and applications across multiple cloud environments.

KDDI and Softbank cosy up with shared 5G RAN

KDDI and Softbank are using shared RAN equipment to help them reduce the cost and increase the speed of their 5G network deployment.

UK government bets on Sonic the edge-hog

The ever-generous British taxpayer has chucked a million quid at a new initiative called Sonic Labs, which is designed to give 5G OpenRAN R&D an extra boost.

Openreach fleshes out UK fibre push

Openreach this week announced plans to add a further 5 million homes and businesses to its full fibre footprint in the UK, sharing details of a raft of new towns and cities in which it plans to build.

Daily Roundup: Campus Switching Market Improves, Chip Shortages Shroud Future

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Vodafone Verifies 100% Renewable Energy in Europe

Vodafone confirmed that its European operations will be fully powered by renewable energy sources beginning July 1. 

Oracle Rewards Program Targets Price Challenges

Oracle launched a new “rewards” program that shows it’s willing to give away support services to customers to entice them to migrate more workloads into its cloud platform. The move also targets customer cost and complexity concerns about using Oracle’s products.

Rakuten Links Cisco’s Acacia Pluggable Optics to 5G SA Core

Rakuten Mobile intends to deploy Cisco’s Routed Optical Network offering paired with segment routing over IPv6 to support enterprise services on its forthcoming 5G standalone (SA) network core. 

Samsung Hosts Virtual Event “Samsung Networks: Redefined”

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd today shared its 5G vision and latest network innovations at “Samsung Networks: Redefined”, a virtual event where the Samsung Networks leadership team presented an overview of Samsung’s notable 5G accomplishments and new solutions driving network transformation.

Private wireless glass is half full for Verizon

The $4.5 billion CBRS auction put thousands of spectrum licenses into enterprise hands, paving the way for companies to work directly with integrators and equipment vendors to build their own onsite wireless networks. Could that leave carriers out in the cold as enterprises start to invest in private 5G networks?

AST's satellite service connects directly to cell phones

Rakuten Mobile has pledged to serve 100% of the Japanese population with its wireless service. But the company has come up against the stark reality that mobile operators in the U.S. have faced for years: It’s a lot more expensive to cover the last small percent of the population who live in rural areas than it is to cover the majority of the population who live in more urban areas.

South Korea 5G scores high marks for both speed, coverage

RootMetrics put out new analysis that determined South Korea’s 5G networks are setting a strong example for the rest of the globe.

Broadband takes a $35B hit in latest U.S. infrastructure plan

U.S. President Joe Biden backed a new $1.2 trillion infrastructure package which would shave $35 billion off the funding total originally proposed for broadband improvements, insisting the lower amount was still enough to connect every citizen to high-speed internet.

SD-WAN rides digitization back to high growth — Raynovich

It's been fun to watch the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) market evolve over a decade. As my research firm Futuriom has tracked SD-WAN, it has grown into a multi-billion-dollar market for virtualized networking services, ranging from everything from application performance control to advanced security services.

Nokia highlights turnaround with new 5G RAN gear

Nokia on Thursday unveiled new 5G radio access network (RAN) equipment, that brings features up to speed or ahead of the competition, according to mobile networks president Tommi Uitto.

Wi-Fi Alliance adds faster way to certify products

The Wi-Fi Alliance is introducing a new certification path that’s supposed to lead to a simpler, lower cost option for getting products Wi-Fi Certified.

WISPA wants FCC to stop obsessing over symmetrical speeds

The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) sent a letter to Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel yesterday related to its concerns about Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) awards.

BT’s Openreach taps CommScope to boost fiber build

BT fixed line subsidiary Openreach teamed with CommScope to boost its fiber build, tapping the vendor to supply a range of outside plant terminals and closures which have been specially designed to enable speedy deployment.

EE reignites Brexit debate by charging for data roaming in Europe

UK mobile operator EE has announced it will start charging £2 per day for new and upgrading customers to use their data in Europe.

ONF shines SD-Core on private 5G use cases

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the launch of the SD-Core project, which is focused on building an open source 4G/5G disaggregated mobile core for private 5G and enterprise use cases.

Altice USA cuts cable uplink speeds 30% to 86% amid fiber push

U.S. operator Altice USA quietly revealed a plan to slash its cable broadband upload speeds anywhere from 30% to 86% in July, a shift the company said was intended to bring its offering more in line with competitors.

Vodafone on the front foot with new UK 5G standalone pilot

A year after it claimed a UK first with a 5G standalone network trial, Vodafone has announced that it is running a commercial pilot of the technology in three major cities.

Nokia unveils a major 5G radio refresh

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has taken the latest step towards getting its act together on 5G with the launch of a bunch of new AirScale products.

Hitting 5G coverage target drives T-Mobile US to drink

T-Mobile US has upped the ante in the attention-seeking stakes and is marking hitting its 5G coverage target ahead of schedule with the launch of a branded gin.

Daily Roundup: Arm Aims to Democratize Confidential Computing

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Campus Switching Market Improves, Chip Shortages Shroud Future

The campus switching market showed signs of recovery in the first quarter of 2021 after a difficult year hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent Dell’Oro Group report found.

Nokia Ships Massive MIMO 5G Radios

Nokia’s first massive multiple-input, multiple output (MIMO) 5G radios featuring its less expensive and more energy efficient system-on-a-chip (SoC) are now commercially available.

Cisco Tables Carbon Offsets, Focuses Environmental Strategy Elsewhere

Cisco has not purchased carbon offsets, though it remains a possibility for the company’s longer term environmental strategy. 

ONF Exposes Three Branches of Private Network Project

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today revealed a pair of projects previously wrapped into its broader Aether project. SD-Core and SD-Fabric join the previously announced SD-RAN project, comprising the three primary layers of ONF’s project for private network architecture.

Illumio Hits $2.75B Valuation, Preaches Zero-Trust Gospel

Cybersecurity unicorn Illumio today said it closed a $225 million Series F funding round that pushed its valuation to $2.75 billion.

KDDI, SoftBank tap Ericsson for multi-operator RAN

KDDI and SoftBank are using network sharing gear from Ericsson to deploy a multi-operator radio access network for the first time in Japan.

Ericsson North America CEO sees a lot of action at network edge

The chief executive of Ericsson’s North America business said the U.S. 5G ecosystem is mobilizing its strength and expects much activity at the edge, bringing hyperscalers and service providers together as developers get access to platforms.

Crown Castle enables Everynet’s IoT network

Everynet, which bills itself as the world’s largest operator for national LoRaWAN networks, announced its plans for launching a LoRaWAN IoT network in the U.S.

Big RDOF winner Conexon helps electric cos get in the fiber game

You may not have heard of Conexon, but the company’s Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium (RECC) was one of the biggest winners in the recent Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction. In December 2020, it walked away from the proceeding with $1.1 billion to build gigabit broadband to 618,000 locations across 22 states.

NEC and NTT Docomo develop RAN intelligent controller

Two Japanese companies, NEC and NTT Docomo, are jointly developing a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) for 5G use cases. Their collaboration is based on the non-real-time RIC from Netcracker, which is a subsidiary of NEC.

Windstream gets smart with new ICON optical architecture

Windstream’s wholesale division rolled out a new Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) architecture, using analytics to enable infrastructure disaggregation and deeper customer insights in its transport network.

Comcast Business connects with Sabey Data Centers

Comcast Business has partnered with Sabey Data Centers to provide local businesses with private connectivity to Sabey's facilities in Tukwila and Quincy, Washington.

Intel creates a business unit dedicated to networking and edge

US chip giant Intel is on a bit of a roll in the telecoms sector thanks in part to the growth of OpenRAN, so it has decided to create a new silo dedicated to it.

Samsung crams multiple antennas into one box to tempt European telcos

Samsung has taken the wraps off a new radio design that it hopes will help it gain further traction with European telcos.

UK government bid to censor the internet faces growing resistance

A proposed set of new UK laws would appoint Ofcom as censor of all digital communications in the country. Not everyone thinks that’s such a great idea.

Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir demo 5G MEC in novel network environments

German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to position itself as an edge services powerhouse, and to that end the telco and its partners this week shared their latest developments.

Daily Roundup: Cato Pushes MDR Into SASE Play

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Arm Aims to Democratize Confidential Computing

Arm Holdings today shared the first technical specifications for its Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA), which it announced alongside the ARMv9 microarchitecture earlier this year.

Can HPE Project Aurora Stretch Zero Trust From Edge to Cloud?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has a plan to continually verify and assert a chain of trust from the workload all the way down to the silicon level and it’s called Project Aurora.

Intel Poaches VMware’s Greg Lavender as CTO, Shakes Up Exec Staff

Intel shook up its executive staff again today, appointing former VMware CTO Greg Lavender as its new CTO and announcing the departure of longtime executive Navin Shenoy. Lavender fills the seat left by former Intel CTO Michael Mayberry who retired in late 2020.

T-Mobile Pushes Mid-Band 5G Coverage to 150M People

T-Mobile US today reinforced its 5G network lead in the U.S. with a low-band network that covers 300 million people and a mid-band network that covers more than 150 million people.

Red Hat Reveals Open RAN Bridge for 5G Operators

Open source pioneer Red Hat today stoked its open radio access network (RAN) efforts with more than 250 engineers dedicated to ecosystem expansion.

Nokia to supply L-band radios to Ligado

Just a day after announcing the 3GPP’s support for its L-band spectrum plans, Ligado Networks said it reached a deal with Nokia on the development of 5G base stations.

Etheric gets hold of Verizon LMDS mmWave licenses

Etheric Networks is purchasing 19 LMDS millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum licenses from Verizon, representing the remainder of the carrier’s holdings in the bands.

Cox Communications announces edge compute service

All the big mobile operators have been talking about mobile edge compute (MEC) for several years. And some fixed broadband providers such as Lumen Technologies also have an edge compute offering. But we haven’t heard much from cable MSOs on the topic.

Intel reorg creates new network, software, compute groups

Intel announced a reorganization of its business structure under new CEO Pat Gelsinger, creating units to boost its focus on network and edge, software and compute products.

Massive MIMO not reaching its full potential in 5G: inventor

Tom Marzetta developed the principles of Massive MIMO in the summer of 2006, and at the time, the idea of having 100 active antennas, each with its own electronics, seemed like science fiction.

PAWR tackles rural broadband with new wireless testbed

The U.S. government bankrolled the creation of a fourth testbed as part of the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, this time aiming to find ways to reduce the cost of rural broadband and prove out future use cases.

Cisco says ZR pluggables are changing optical architecture

Bill Gartner, SVP and GM of Cisco’s Optical Systems and Optics Group, tipped the proliferation of ZR pluggables to spark a big shift in the optical world, noting access to an open interface and economic benefits could help spur adoption of a new networking architecture.

Samsung debuts 5G RAN chipsets

Samsung on Tuesday debuted three new 5G chipsets for next-generation radio access network (RAN) gear, as the vendor continues its push in the infrastructure space.

London Mayor takes credit for glacial Tube 4G rollout

In a few years’ time London commuters will be able to pay for the chance to connect their devices while travelling on the Underground.

Capgemini tempers expectations for industrial 5G deployment

It is all too easy to get caught up in the hype about 5G and how it’s revolutionising every facet of human life, so it is a refreshing change once in a while to hear a more sober perspective.

HPE targets telecom, healthcare, banking with GreenLake services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled a slew of updates for its GreenLake cloud platform, including an expanded range of services designed to meet the workload needs of four key industry verticals.

MobiledgeX, Mavenir collaborate on 5G edge with DT

Separately, both Mavenir and MobiledgeX have done their fair share of deals with Deutsche Telekom. Today, they announced a collaboration whereby they’re validating the reference design for deploying cloud-native 5G User Plane Function (UPF) to support Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) applications, tailored for proximity and performance use cases.

Ericsson needs Intel inside to support mid-band 5G in its Cloud RAN

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has continued its shuffle towards a commoditized, open Radio Access Network by using Intel chips to do its mid-band 5G computing.

Bharti Airtel and Tata to roll out homegrown OpenRAN tech

India’s dream of developing and exporting its own 5G networking equipment has taken another step towards becoming reality.

Ericsson bolsters its 5G Cloud RAN with mid-band, massive MIMO

Ericsson hit what one executive touted as a major milestone with its cloud RAN offering, adding support for mid-band spectrum and massive MIMO in a move that comes as operators in the U.S. gear up for C-Band deployments later this year.

Daily Roundup: Intel Blends Virtualized RAN, Edge, Core Into Network Platform

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Cato Pushes MDR Into SASE Play

Cato Networks launched its new managed detection and response (MDR) platform that is designed to cut deployment times from months to minutes.

HPE Silicon on Demand Nerfs Intel-Based GreenLake Servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) wants to make it easier for GreenLake customers to scale compute workloads through a new collaboration with Intel. HPE CEO Antonio Neri announced GreenLake Silicon on Demand, which enables users to add additional processor cores and memory with the press of a button, during his Discover 2021 keynote today.

Samsung Boasts Early 5G Wins Best 4G

Samsung Networks, just two years into the 5G era, “already signed more 5G contracts than we did for 4G, and we’ve shipped over 4 million 5G-ready radios,” said Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun, president and head of the business unit.

HPE Lighthouse Shines Across GreenLake Cloud Platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) kicked off its annual Discover event today and added a Lighthouse and a still-under-development, zero-trust security project — among other things — into its GreenLake cloud-services portfolio.

Aruba Unifies Network Portfolio, Adds Closed-Loop AIOps

Aruba Networks announced a bevy of artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) and IoT enhancements to its Aruba Central management platform and Aruba Operating System (AOS) alongside new rugged and low-cost switching hardware at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Discover event today.

Splunk Security Cloud Adds Threat Intel, Automates Response

Splunk launched a cloud-based security product that combines security analytics, automation, and threat intelligence, investigation, and response capabilities.

Nvidia Launches Fleet Command, Colocates AI With Equinix

Nvidia partnered with colocation providers to make its supercomputing platforms more accessible to artificial intelligence (AI) developers. Equinix will be among the first colocation vendors to join Nvidia’s AI LaunchPad program, which “offers customers instant access to AI and machine learning infrastructure that’s ready to use,” said Justin Boitano, VP and GM of enterprise and edge computing at Nvidia.

Ericsson Teases Late 2022 Mid-Band vRAN Support

Ericsson Cloud RAN, the Swedish vendor’s answer for virtualized radio access network (vRAN) architecture, will support mid-band spectrum in the second half of 2022. It also plans to add support for massive multiple-input, multi-output (MIMO) antenna arrays, which are crucial in mid-band deployments. 

Intel asks Cellwize to CHIME in to boost 5G vRAN

Intel teamed with automation and orchestration company Cellwize Wireless Technologies to boost 5G vRAN deployments, adding support for the latter’s CHIME network optimization platform on its Xeon Scalable processors and FlexRAN reference software.

Verizon bolsters location tech with Senion acquisition

Verizon continues to bolster its precise location technology efforts, on Monday announcing the acquisition of Senion.

FBA tips broadband speed need to surpass 2 Gbps by 2030

A new study released by the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) determined a family of four will require symmetrical broadband speeds of at least 2 Gbps by 2030 in order to adequately meet their needs.

NEC opens facilities in three regions for 5G transport services

NEC is opening facilities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America to support next-generation transport services, including multi-vendor, for mobile operators.

Ligado obtains 3GPP L-band approvals for 5G

One of the tasks that Ligado has been focused on since getting the green light from the FCC is steering its L-band spectrum through the 3GPP standards process, and now the company can say it’s accomplished that.

Nokia confirmed to provide Dish/AWS 5G standalone core

It turns out there are some telecoms things even the mighty AWS can’t do, so Nokia has been drafted in to deploy Dish’s 5G SA core.

Virgin Media O2 boosts fiber uplink speeds for SMEs

U.K operator Virgin Media O2 offered a free uplink speed boost for small business customers using its Voom Fiber service in a move it pitched as allowing them to share files and access cloud applications faster.

TPG takes umbrage at ACCC’s mobile pricing claims

It’s all kicking off down under after TPG Telecom took issue with price-hike accusations levelled at it by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Huawei inevitably loses appeal against FCC designation

A US appeals court has denied Huawei’s petition for review of the decision by the FCC to designate it a national security threat.

Telenor and Axiata finally ink Malaysia merger

After months of negotiations, Telenor and Axiata have put pen to paper on their plan to merge their respective Malaysian operations Digi and Celcom.

Daily Roundup: Dish Pushes Nokia 5G Core to AWS

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Intel Blends Virtualized RAN, Edge, Core Into Network Platform

Intel today revealed a mixture of its hardware and software for radio access network (RAN) and edge computing called the Intel Network Platform.

HPE Buys Determined AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said it acquired artificial intelligence startup Determined AI for an undisclosed amount.