Cisco's Campus Switch Dominance Threatened

Campus switching has changed dramatically over the last three years as new features that support digital transformation and the subscription-based business models have gained greater acceptance. This has opened new opportunities for emerging suppliers to take on dominant players like Cisco, said Sameh Boujelbene, senior research director at Dell’Oro Group.

Private wireless network set to automate logistics

Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA), a state corporation chartered to develop and oversee logistics infrastructure, is building a private LTE/5G network to support its statewide logistics system. Its partners in the project include Intel, Athonet, QuayChain and Wireless Industrial Group.

T-Mobile asks FCC’s permission to keep using unused 600 MHz

At the beginning of the pandemic last year, T-Mobile wrangled additional 600 MHz spectrum from a number of companies and from unused spectrum held by the FCC to bolster its capacity for Americans during a crisis.

T-Mobile chases voice in 5G - Verizon, AT&T not so much

T-Mobile is pursuing new voice services for its 5G network – and not saying much about it – while Verizon and AT&T appear to be sticking with LTE for the foreseeable future.

T-Mobile says 5.3M more postpaid accounts hit in data breach

The number of customers affected by the recent T-Mobile data breach continues to grow.

Missouri, North Carolina eye $1.2B in broadband investments

Missouri and North Carolina plotted major investments in broadband, with the former’s governor announcing a plan to dedicate at least $400 million to expand access in the state and the latter’s legislature weighing a budget which could allocate more than $850 million to boost rural coverage.

Mavenir swaps out Triangle’s Huawei gear for open RAN

Montana service provider Triangle Communications is swapping out Huawei gear from its network and implementing open RAN products with vendor Mavenir.

Multi-gig PON 101: Q&A with Dell’Oro Group

Fierce’s Multi-gig PON 101 Q&A series digs deep into the high-speed future, aiming to help readers build in-depth knowledge about key technologies and the overall market landscape through progressive interviews with industry experts. This collection will delve into the forces driving operators toward multi-gig PON technology; how XGS-PON and other 10G technologies are helping deliver a new breed of ultra-fast broadband; and what’s coming down the pipe with 25G and beyond.

Daily Roundup: Regulatory Hurdles Overshadow Nvidia Arm Acquisition

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T-Mobile’s Repeated Security Blunders Yield Lessons for Rivals

The scope of a cyberattack at T-Mobile US keeps growing, as the operator today confirmed personal data on least 54 million people was exposed and stolen. It pegged the number of people affected at nearly 49 million people earlier this week.

AT&T Disputes Alleged Cyberattack Involving 70M Customers

This was a bad week for America’s mobile network operators, starting with a massive data breach at T-Mobile US and ending with another reported cyberattack at AT&T.

Intel Agilex FPGA, ASICs Power Next-Gen DPUs

Intel debuted two infrastructure processing units (IPUs) alongside an updated acceleration development platform during its annual Architecture Day this week.

HPE Overhauls Exec Ranks, Sharpens GreenLake Focus

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri this week made significant changes to the vendor’s executive ranks and the delivery structure of its GreenLake and Ezmeral cloud platforms in a move that further highlights his focus on HPE’s as-a-service business models.

Oracle Verrazzano Targets Multi-Cloud Container Management

Oracle released its Verrazzano enterprise container platform earlier this month. The open-source, subscription-based DevOps platform runs on top of Kubernetes and allows users to deploy, manage, and secure container applications on any Kubernetes cluster where Oracle’s container platform is installed.

Will Ransomware End Cyber Insurance as We Know It?

No industry is immune from ransomware, and as these attacks become more expensive and crippling for organizations of all sizes across sectors, cyber insurance providers doubly feel the pressure.

Fiber ecosystem gets stoked about the infrastructure bill

People involved in the deployment of fiber in the United States are getting pretty excited about the prospect of the infrastructure bill being approved in the House of Representatives and then being signed by President Joe Biden.

Lumen stacks VMware on its edge for private cloud

Lumen Technologies put its edge compute infrastructure to work, using it as the basis for a new Edge Private Cloud product which allows enterprises to run key workloads in a secure environment.

Cisco posts double-digit profit growth despite supply issues

Cisco executives confirmed the company implemented a series of price hikes to help offset increased supply costs caused by a global component shortage, but said the benefits likely won’t show up in its financial results until late 2021 or 2022.

ABI Research is downbeat on private networks in Germany

According to ABI Research, interest in private wireless networks is fading in Germany.

Crown Castle names new COO for tower division

Crown Castle appointed Catherine Piche as the new chief operating officer of its tower division, effective the start of September.

Most wireline players pass on FCC’s 3.45 GHz auction–here’s why

Cable and wireline players were some of the top bidders in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) CBRS auction last year but by and large appear to be sitting out an upcoming sale of adjacent mid-band spectrum between 3.45 GHz and 3.55 GHz.

Alarm industry warns on AT&T 3G network sunset

T-Mobile isn’t the only one getting slammed for shutting off its 3G network in early 2022. AT&T’s plans to sunset its 3G voice network by February 2022 are causing panic in the alarm services industry.

FireEye XDR Unifies Endpoint, Network, Email, Cloud Defenses

FireEye is the latest vendor to join the increasingly crowded extended detection and response (XDR) market by introducing its own unified platform. It aims to provide threat detection and response capabilities across endpoint, network, email, and cloud, as well as support for more than 600 native and third-party security tools.

Daily Roundup: Op-Ed: SDxCentral Boosts Its Cybersecurity, Sustainability Coverage

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GlobalFoundries Inches Closer to IPO

GlobalFoundries today confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in New York, Reuters reports. The IPO, which could garner around $25 billion, scuttled a rumored acquisition attempt by rival foundry operator Intel.

Regulatory Hurdles Overshadow Nvidia Arm Acquisition

Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to buy Arm Holdings from Japanese mega-conglomerate SoftBank may be in trouble. During the chipmaker’s second-quarter fiscal year 2022 earnings call, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress warned the acquisition is taking longer than initially thought.

Industry Events Scramble Amid Another COVID-19 Surge

This summer of hope quickly unraveled as yet another terrifying wave of COVID-19 infections swept across the globe, rendering many upcoming industry events unsafe or at least unadvisable.

Big 3 carriers, Dish apply for 3.45 GHz auction

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday released a roster of applicants for participation in the next U.S. mid-band spectrum auction.

RDOF waiver requests roll in after FCC warning

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently urged operators to ensure money awarded to them in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction wouldn’t go toward unnecessary coverage, and they responded – with a wave of waiver requests. As a result, millions in broadband funding could be left on the table.

Ligado inks deal with Mavenir for 5G base stations

Ligado Networks, whose stated mission is to deploy a 5G mobile satellite network for IoT, announced a deal with Mavenir on the development of base stations.

What the heck is ‘metaverse’ and will it affect carriers?

One day you’ve never heard the term “metaverse,” and the next day you hear it three times. What is this new craze, and will it affect telecommunications?

OpenVault: Gigabit speed tier uptake doubled in Q2

Fresh data from OpenVault showed the percentage of broadband subscribers taking gigabit speed tiers more than doubled year-over-year in Q2, surpassing 10% for the first time.

T-Mobile confirms 48M people hit by its data breach

T-Mobile’s investigation into claims of a massive data breach determined around 48.65 million people – including current, former, and prospective customers – had personal data stolen.

Bell Canada on track to hit 900k new fiber passings in 2021

Bell Canada revealed plans to deliver fiber to 2,000 new locations in the Niagara region as it pushes toward a goal of reaching 850,000 to 900,000 new passings by the end of 2021.

Dish and AT&T: What does it mean for 12 GHz?

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen didn’t say much about the 12 GHz band during the company’s earnings call last week. In fact, if you blinked, you might have missed it.

Microsoft invests in Rubrik as ransomware booms

Microsoft is investing in and partnering with Rubrik, a provider of Zero Trust data protection, as an increasing number of companies across a variety of industries continue to be targeted by crippling ransomware attacks.

Daily Roundup: T-Mobile Faces ‘Largest Carrier Breach on Record’

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T-Mobile Cyberattack Hit 49M+ People

T-Mobile US overnight confirmed personal information on current, former, and prospective customers was exposed and stolen in a “highly sophisticated cyberattack” against its systems. 

Dropbox Achieves 100% Renewable Data Center Target

Dropbox announced its data center storage servers are powered by 100% renewable electricity, meeting its 2030 target nine years ahead of schedule. 

Cisco Claims Spot Among Top 10 Global Software Companies

Software sales surpassed $4 billion and accounted for almost 31% of Cisco’s total revenue during its fiscal year 2021 fourth quarter. 

Verizon bolsters enterprise focus, names SVP for new role

Verizon Business is bolstering its enterprise efforts with the creation of a new role, appointing Shubho Ghosh as SVP to lead business strategy and transformation.

Microsoft taps SES to diversify Azure connectivity, resiliency

Microsoft expanded its relationship with SES Networks, planning to use connectivity provided by the latter’s satellites to boost network diversity and resiliency at its Azure Network locations.

AT&T turns up mmWave 5G testbed at UT campus

AT&T is installing a 5G testbed using millimeter wave spectrum at the University of Tennessee to explore 5G use cases for rural areas, digital learning experiences, and military applications.

GoZone WiFi, CommScope serve Wi-Fi to outdoor spaces

GoZone WiFi, a software company that delivers marketing, analytics and display advertising, is working with CommScope to provide Wi-Fi to outdoor venues, including campgrounds, RV parks, marinas and state and national parks.

Boingo expands work with AWS, highlights O’Hare project

Boingo Wireless announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and it’s pointing to a new offering at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) as a prime example of their work together.

Infinera stacks leadership team with former Cisco, Dell execs

Infinera sought to strengthen its position in open optical networking, adding four new executives to its leadership team including the former head of product management for Cisco’s optical transport business.

Could infrastructure funding snarl the broadband supply chain?

Congress is poised to pass a sprawling infrastructure deal which would allocate $65 billion for broadband expansions. But would that money keep the fiber flowing throughout the country or worsen the supply chain logjam?

CSO Urges Companies to Think Like Cybercriminals

More than one-quarter (26%) of Fortune 100 companies are highly likely to fall victim to a ransomware attack from cybercriminals in the next 12 months. And the problem is that “large companies typically don’t think the way the bad actors do,” warned Bob Maley, chief security officer at Black Kite. 

Daily Roundup: 5G Fixed Wireless Rides Pandemic-Related Shift

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T-Mobile Faces ‘Largest Carrier Breach on Record’

T-Mobile US has an unmitigated security mess on its hands, leaving its entire customer base in the lurch. 

Netskope SASE Adds Cloud Firewall, Native Isolation Tech

Netskope updated its secure access service edge (SASE) platform with features including a new cloud-delivered firewall and its own remote browser isolation (RBI) technology from its recent Randed acquisition.

US Operators Increase First-Half 2021 Capex by 7.2% to $38.5B

U.S. network operators collectively increased capex spending at modest levels during the first half of the year, but the hikes weren’t even, according to GlobalData.

Intel Chips Power Latest AWS EC2 Instances

Intel x86 chips power Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) newest EC2 instances designed for general-purpose compute.

Verizon isn’t stressed about worker shortages for C-band rollout

While news stories seem to indicate there is a major worker shortage for such things as fiber and wireless deployments, Verizon’s Chief Network Engineering Officer Ed Chan says that Verizon is on track with its C-band deployment plans, and those plans are not being hindered by any notable labor shortages. 

T-Mobile confirms unauthorized access to data, continues probe

After claims surfaced over the weekend of a massive customer data breach, T-Mobile on Monday afternoon confirmed that “unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred” but hasn’t determined if personal customer data was involved and the carrier continues to investigate.

AT&T opens sub-6 GHz 5G access for FirstNet in 10 cities

AT&T on Monday said first responders that are signed on to FirstNet now have access to its low-band flavor of 5G in 10 cities.

CPUC digs into T-Mobile claims about CDMA shutdown

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wants T-Mobile to answer some questions related to the shutdown of the CDMA network that it inherited from Sprint. Specifically, the CPUC said T-Mobile made statements under oath “indicating that Dish would have up to three years in which to complete Boost customer migration.”

Court orders FCC to revisit safety guidelines for RF radiation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must reexamine its health and safety guidelines for 5G and other wireless based technologies.

United’s Wind buy creates new converged player in Greece

United Group has agreed to buy Greek mobile operator Wind Hellas, a tie-up that will create a much stronger converged player in the country.

Google and Facebook get involved in another new APAC subsea cable

A new subsea cable that will ensure Taiwan stays connected to the rest of the reason is being championed by US internet giants Google and Facebook.

Google, Facebook tackle new subsea cable routes in Asia, Africa

Google and the 2Africa consortium, a group comprised of Facebook and seven operator partners, separately announced plans to expand their subsea cable networks in Asia and Africa.  

T-Mobile investigates reported customer data breach

T-Mobile is investigating claims of a data breach that reportedly involves information related to more than 100 million customers.

States play a key role as federal broadband funding pours in

The Covid-19 pandemic sparked somewhat of a broadband revival, highlighting the importance of connectivity as citizens across the U.S. and the globe were forced to work, learn and play from home. It’s no surprise, then, that broadband funding has been pouring in from the federal government. The catch, of course, is that much of it is being allocated on the state level.

Vodafone Idea blames Covid for Q1 weakness, still looking for investors

Vodafone Idea has turned in another disappointing set of quarterly results but, despite once again expressing doubts about its ability to continue operations, has blamed the Covid-19 pandemic for its weak performance.

Huawei accused of IP theft and installing a backdoor in public security project

A US cloud software company is suing Chinese vendor Huawei, alleging it stole it intellectual property and installed a backdoor when they collaborated over a project in Pakistan.

Can Soft-Skills Based Hiring Boost Diversity in Cybersecurity?

As the cybersecurity industry tries to overcome a shortage of skilled workers, some professionals advocate for soft-skills based hiring, skills-based evaluation, and a pay-for-results work model, which they say will also improve diversity in the field.

Sustain.Life Pushes Green Future as IT Prioritizes Sustainability

Sustainability is a priority for 90% of IT decision makers, according to a recent IDG survey commissioned by Google Cloud.

T-Mobile Probes Alleged Data Breach of 100M Customers

Hackers reportedly breached T-Mobile US servers and obtained the personal data of more than 100 million customers, according to a Vice report.

5G Fixed Wireless Rides Pandemic-Related Shift

Fixed wireless access will be among the most valuable use cases for 5G network operators, according to new reports that predict compound annual growth rates in excess of 70%.

Daily Roundup: Amazon, Microsoft, Google Control Gartner’s Cloud Rankings

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