Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — April 2021

Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in April. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s movers and shakers, or if you’ve got a tip about layoffs and restructuring, please send the information to Sydney Sawaya (ssawaya@sdxcentral.com) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

Nokia's RAN Boss Reflects on Early 5G Misfires

Silicon is a critical component in the radio access network (RAN) business. Just ask Nokia. The company made some mistakes in silicon in the early days of 5G and is still trying to dig itself out of the problems caused by those ill-advised decisions.

Security Needs a Seat at the Adults’ Table, Data Theorem CEO Says

The new cyberattack surface is the API layer, according to Doug Dooley, CEO of application security startup Data Theorem.

SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — April 2021

Check out our top 10 articles for April 2021 covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

Ericsson targets simplified site upgrades with new radio unit

Ericsson this week introduced a new radio unit that has multi-band support across different technologies and promises capacity enhancements and cost savings.

Frontier plans 495,000 new fiber passings in 2021

Frontier Communications emerged from bankruptcy today, and the newly listed public company will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Tuesday, May 4 under the ticker “FYBR.”

AWS tops $50B run rate as cloud players book killer Q1 results

Amazon joined fellow cloud players Microsoft and Google in booking monster Q1 results, helping propel the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) business to a more than $50 billion run rate.

Charter spotlights growth opportunities around upselling, RDOF

Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge highlighted the company’s potential to upsell broadband customers as data usage grows but noted it didn’t yet feel the need to pursue a rollout of symmetrical capabilities.

American Tower sees early promise in edge compute opportunity

As American Tower readies for C-band deployments and the start of Dish Network’s 5G buildout, the tower company also is looking further ahead to mobile edge compute opportunities.

Charter CEO sees room to run as cable MVNOs rake in subs in Q1

Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge argued it has plenty of room to gain share and boost profits with wireless services, as cable MVNOs collectively raked in well over half a million new subscribers in Q1.

TIM reportedly says arrivederci to Huawei

Huawei is losing another friend in Europe, if press reports that it has been shown the door by Italy’s TIM prove to be correct.

AWS accounted for a third of $42 billion cloud market in Q1 2021

All the US tech giants had a spectacular quarter, but Amazon’s continuing dominance of the booming public cloud market sets it apart.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Seeks Support for EU Foundries

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger this week entered talks with European leaders to address semiconductor supply chain challenges and reduce reliance on imports.

Daily Roundup: Fortinet Fires Up 5G Firewalls

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Has Intel’s FlexRAN Met Its Match With Qualcomm?

Qualcomm this week inked a collaborative agreement with Vodafone to bolster its desire to earn a more prominent role in the 5G radio access network (RAN) chipset business. 

Dish Teases Multiple 5G Cities Coming By Year End

Dish Network hinted that its yet-to-be-released 5G service will be live in multiple U.S. cities before the end of year. The aspirational greenfield operator earlier this month said Las Vegas will be the first U.S. city to gain access to its 5G open radio access network (RAN) before October.

Amazon Cloud Revenue Jumps 32% to $13.5B in Q1

Amazon maintained its cloud market sovereignty in the first quarter of 2021. The behemoth reported its Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue grew 32% to $13.5 billion compared to $10.22 billion a year ago. It increased its operating income 35% year over year to $4.16 billion in Q1.

Fortinet Rings In Q1 With 5G Firewalls, BT SD-WAN Deal

Fortinet today celebrated a successful first quarter of 2021 with two new appliances aimed at emerging 5G use cases along with a managed SD-WAN offering through BT.

Vodafone, Qualcomm team up for Open RAN design

Vodafone and Qualcomm announced plans to develop open RAN reference designs aimed at making it easier for smaller and newer entrants to leverage high-performance silicon needed to support 5G base stations.   

Nokia’s CEO says massive MIMO radio coming soon

On Nokia’s Q1 2021 earnings call today, CEO Pekka Lundmark said, “I can confirm that we have new radios coming to the market….both a new massive MIMO radio and also a new baseband.”

Dish’s Ergen sees T-Mobile as magenta Grinch

T-Mobile’s plan to shut down its CDMA network in January 2022 isn’t sitting right with Dish Network Chairman and co-founder Charlie Ergen, so much so that he’s seeing T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert as the Grinch in a magenta suit.  

Altice USA crosses 1M FTTH milestone in Q1

Altice USA marked a key milestone in its ongoing fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) march, with CEO Dexter Goei noting on an earnings call it exceeded 1 million homes passed in Q1 2021.

Nokia’s network infrastructure had ‘fantastic’ Q1 2021

Nokia’s net sales increased 3% year over year from $5.94 billion to $6.18 billion driven by strong growth in its network infrastructure group, but watered down by decreases in its mobile and cloud business units.

Salt to share investment in Swisscom’s FTTH network

Swisscom and Salt are playing their cards close to their chests when it comes to the financial details of their new FTTH partnership, but it looks to be a good move.

Vodafone and Qualcomm partner to make an OpenRAN reference design

Mobile chip giant Qualcomm is enlisting the help of OpenRAN cheerleader Vodafone to help it bring its smartphone methodology to the new radio paradigm.

Comcast broadband booms, adds 461,000 subs in Q1

Comcast’s broadband business boomed in Q1, posting double-digit revenue growth and strong net additions, which helped propel its broader Cable Communications division to record customer relationship growth.

Consolidated expands fiber to nearly 46K locations in 1Q

Regional telco Consolidated Communications is moving full steam ahead with its fiber deployment plans. During the firm’s first quarter earnings call with investors, CEO Bob Udell said the company added 45,800 new fiber locations in the first quarter, which he noted was 20 times the number of fiber locations Consolidated added in all of 2020. With the additional fiber locations, Consolidated now covers about 12% of its footprint with 1-Gig fiber, which is an increase from 10% at year-end 2020.

Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile MVNO finally turns a profit

Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile MVNO business hit a key milestone in Q1 2021, turning a profit for the first time since its launch in the first half of 2017 as it posted its best quarterly net additions on record.

China Mobile gives true picture of 5G uptake, rivals do not

Judging by the first-quarter figures shared by China’s big three telcos over the past few days, there are probably already more than 400 million 5G customers in China.

Nokia revenues grow 9% as network infrastructure bet finally starts to pay off

Finnish kit vendor Nokia started 2021 with a bang, driven by a 28% increase in revenues from its network infrastructure business.

Full time for BT’s sports business, but it is the right time?

BT is in talks that could lead to the sale of its sports business, it admitted on Thursday, a move that could help pay some of the upcoming bills at its core telco operation.

Daily Roundup: Vectra AI Joins Security Unicorn Pack at $1.2B Valuation

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IBM Takes Turbonomic to Turbocharge Full Stack Observability

IBM today made good on executive comments just last week that IBM was anxious to continue its recent buying spree. The latest purchase was application management and and monitoring firm Turbonomic.

White House Paving Anti-Ransomware Plan, DHS Secretary Says

The Biden administration will soon release a plan to combat ransomware, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Nokia Claims Early Turnaround Success

Nokia worked its way back into profitable territory during the first quarter of 2021, and claimed its three-year turnaround plan is showing early signs of success. 

Extreme Networks Ramps on Cloud, Targets 5G

Extreme Networks is a changed company, not just financially, but from a product standpoint, CEO Ed Meyercord claims. The company this week put COVID-19-related fiscal challenges behind it, posting its strongest quarter in more than a year, punctuated by 21% year-over-year revenue growth of $253 million.

Vectra AI Joins Security Unicorn Pack at $1.2B Valuation

Vectra AI joined the cybersecurity unicorn pack today with a $130 million funding round on a $1.2 billion valuation. The late-stage funding round, led by Blackstone Growth, brings Vectra’s total raised to $350 million.

mmWave 5G remains elusive for U.S. consumers - Opensignal

Despite early millimeter wave spectrum auctions and large carrier holdings in high-frequency bands, new analysis from Opensignal shows mmWave 5G connections are still rare for U.S. consumers.

U.S. taps Apple, Google, Nokia, Qualcomm for 6G boost

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) took aim at 6G with the launch of its single largest public-private partnership program, enlisting nine cloud, tech and telecom heavyweights to help academics develop the technologies that will define next generation networks. 

Dish leads new coalition in fight over 12 GHz band

Invoking the U.S.-versus-China race to 5G, a group of organizations and companies, including Dish Network, urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expeditiously update the rules for the 12 GHz band and pave the way for the U.S. to shoot past China when it comes to spectrum for 5G.

Juniper beats 1Q expectations but parts shortages are worrisome

Juniper Networks continues to be a networking turnaround story. The company reported first quarter revenues of $1.07 billion, which beat Wall Street's expectations and is an increase of 8% year over year.  

SpaceX gets approval to lower its LEO

Satellite company SpaceX has received permission to halve the altitude at which its low earth orbit satellites float.

Verizon names Jennifer Chronis as head of Public Sector

Nine months after taking the lead on Verizon’s federal business, Jennifer Chronis is now heading up the operator’s entire public sector segment.

Microsoft rides high as cloud streak rolls on

Microsoft's Azure cloud computing business once again proved to be a money-making engine in the company’s fiscal Q3 2021 (ended March 31, 2021), helping the company achieve its highest overall revenue growth in more than two years.

Google Cloud remains in the red despite revenue jump

Alphabet’s Google Cloud unit failed to dig itself out of the red, despite posting first quarter revenue that increased a whopping 45% year on year.

Red Hat raises its cloud game

Open-source software vendor Red Hat has launched a bunch of arcane products and initiatives so baffling they must be doing something clever.

UK’s digital divide narrows, but deepens

Ofcom has heralded a narrowing of the digital divide in the UK, with statistics showing an increase in household connectivity over the past year fuelled by the restrictions linked to Covid-19.

AT&T and University of Connecticut to launch private 5G network

AT&T is adding the University of Connecticut to its list of 5G partners and customers in the higher education space. The carrier is building a private 5G network using mmWave spectrum at the University of Connecticut's Stamford campus. Along with multi-access edge compute (MEC) servers installed on campus, the network will support new programs for students studying data science and entrepreneurship. 

Smartphone nightmare drives Huawei revenues down 16.5%

Chinese tech giant Huawei has continued its recent trend of relative transparency by revealing a steep decline in Q1 revenues due to the US-imposed struggles of its consumer business.

Cox bulks up investment portfolio with Segra buy

Cox Communications has announced the acquisition of Segra’s business services arm, a move that should give its enterprise services a boost as well as proving to be a sound financial investment.

An Open Invitation to Build a Better Cloud

The theme of this year’s Red Hat Summit, “Open Your Perspective,” focuses on the importance of open-source solutions to address the challenges of the future. For Red Hat and many of its partners, this means building on the success of Red Hat OpenShift, which allows customers to build cloud-native architectures using Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration on an open, Linux operating system.

Oracle’s SASE Is More Than a Check Point Collab

At first blush, Oracle’s entrance into the red-hot secure access service edge (SASE) market isn’t all that surprising. To date, nearly every SD-WAN vendor has debuted some kind of SASE architecture. But Oracle isn’t just an SD-WAN vendor, it’s a public cloud provider too.

Daily Roundup: Huawei's Sales Trend Downward

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Huawei Sales Trend Downward, 5G RAN Impacts Limited (So Far)

Huawei’s business continued to decline during the first three months of 2021 as U.S. sanctions narrow the Chinese juggernaut’s prospects.

Microsoft Cloud Revenue Growth Rate Flatlines at 50%

Growth in Microsoft’s Azure public cloud business remains strong, but the trajectory of that growth has flattened. 

Palo Alto Networks Automates Cloud VM Workload Protection

Palo Alto Networks today extended its container and Kubernetes security capabilities to virtual machines (VMs) running in public clouds, among other updates to Prisma Cloud.

Sysdig Secures $189M Investment for 'Giant Emerging Market'

Container security unicorn Sysdig bagged a hefy $189 million funding round as the use of containers and Kubernetes continues to ride a wave in popularity. The Series F round, announced a little over a year after the company’s $70 million Series E, pushed Sysdig’s valuation to $1.19 billion.

Carriers invest in their brands as maelstrom of 2020 ends: Moore

All three national carriers have launched brand-building efforts, and UScellular has refreshed its brand identity. 

Dish petitions CPUC over T-Mobile CMDA shutdown

Dish Network asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to reopen its proceeding involving the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile in order to enforce merger commitments.

Red Hat bundles security, management into OpenShift Plus

IBM subsidiary Red Hat put its recently acquired StackRox assets to work, rolling out a new version of its OpenShift cloud platform that incorporates security, cluster management and registry capabilities in a single package.

Cox buys private fiber company Segra

Cox Communications inked a deal to buy the commercial services segment of Segra, a privately-held fiber infrastructure provider based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Bloomberg sources estimate the deal at about $3 billion. Cox is buying the business segment from the investment company EQT Infrastructure.   The commercial services segment provides fiber to enterprise and carrier customers in nine states in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast U.S. Segra has a dense metropolitan fiber network in its footprint.    “Cox is focused on buying and investing where it makes sense, and we believe that the demand for broadband infrastructure will continue to grow, making fiber an attractive area for long-term investment,” said Cox CEO Pat Esser, in a statement.

SBA not seeing C-band supply chain issues yet

Last week AT&T CEO John Stankey expressed some “skittishness” over supply chain issues potentially impacting C-band gear, but equipment delays aren’t top of mind for SBA Communications looking ahead this year and in 2022.

Eutelsat chucks $550 million into the OneWeb bottomless pit

OneWeb, the communications satellite company that investors refuse to give up on, has flogged a quarter of itself to Eutelsat for $550 million.

VMware extends its telco cloud platform to the RAN

VMware has been working on its Telco Cloud Platform for a few years. It launched it under that name commercially in June 2020. The platform allows service providers to update their core networks. VMware already has some big-name customers for the platform, including Dish Network, Vodafone and Rogers Communications.

Verizon casts wide net with C-band tests as it preps for launch

Verizon ramped C-band (3.7-4.2 GHz) testing as it worked toward the launch of newly acquired mid-band spectrum assets later this year, filing to conduct trials in more than 50 cities across seven states over the past six weeks.

Dell tackles telco cloud transition with Red Hat blueprints

Dell Technologies rolled out new telco cloud and multi-access edge compute (MEC) reference architectures based on Red Hat’s OpenShift platform, addressing two key challenges operators face as they transition to cloud-native environments. Red Hat is a subsidiary of IBM.

Orange not getting into Ethiopia…or its own way in Belgium

Ethiopia has shared the names of just two bidding groups for its two available telecoms licences, a disappointing outcome from one of the world’s last great liberalisation opportunities.

Chinese smartphone rivals replace Huawei in Europe

Huawei’s European smartphone shipments fell off a cliff in Q1 2021, according to Counterpoint, but its compatriots more than filled the void.

O2 and Vodafone trade UK 5G spectrum

O2 and Vodafone have entered into a UK agreement to trade spectrum holdings in the 3.4 GHz-3.8 GHz band to create more efficient frequency blocks for 5G rollout.

Imagine deploying CBRS gear on homes to offload mobile traffic

Two leaders of wireless technology are thinking far more futuristically than almost anyone in the traditional mobile ecosystem.

TIM wastes little time in making its OpenRAN move

Telecoms group TIM claims to be the first Italian operator to formally get the ball rolling on its OpenRAN deployment.

Juniper Beats on Q1 Earnings, Rounds Recovery Corner

Juniper Networks’ financial fortunes continued to improve in the first quarter of 2021. The company today posted $1.07 billion in revenues, up 8% year over year and narrowly exceeding guidance.

Dell Drives Red Hat OpenShift Toward 5G Goal

Dell Technologies is adding Red Hat’s OpenShift software and management on top of its telecom-focused server equipment to support the roll out of 5G services. And, to prime that pump, it’s also releasing a multi-access edge computing (MEC) reference architecture targeted at private 5G network deployments.

Daily Roundup: VMware Tilts Into vRAN Telco Cloud

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Google Cloud Grows Revenue 46% to $4B in Q1

Google Cloud closed the first quarter of 2021 on a high note, posting strong revenue growth and an improved bottom line for Q1.

AT&T, Ericsson Translate 5G Use Cases to Enterprise Outcomes

Discussions about 5G can quickly get into the technical weeds, but enterprises need more than an industry insider’s perspective, according to executives at AT&T and Ericsson. 

IBM Welds Native Container Storage Into Spectrum Fusion

IBM unveiled a new container-native, software-defined storage platform called IBM Spectrum Fusion today in a bid to help customers and channel partners better manage data across hybrid environments.

Arm Next-Gen Neoverse Takes On Intel, AMD

With the Neoverse N1 core design, Arm proved its metal in the data center arena, spawning chips like Amazon’s Graviton2 and Ampere’s Altra.

Red Hat OpenShift Gets Plussed for Cloud Battle

Red Hat plussed its Kubernetes-based OpenShift Platform with new security and management features that boost the platform’s position as the hybrid-cloud alternative to cloud-specific offerings from the market’s cloud giants. The vendor is positioning the move as a further bolstering of OpenShift’s position as the cloud-neutral platform of choice.

VMware Tilts Into vRAN Telco Cloud, Dish Gets First Dibs

VMware’s telco cloud ambitions today reached the most broadly deployed infrastructure of all: the radio access network (RAN). 

HPE Scores Scality Artesca Cloud-Native Storage Exclusive

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Scality turned up the heat on their software-defined storage (SDS) relationship with HPE picking up an exclusive six-month contract to host Scality’s new Artesca lightweight cloud-native object storage platform. 

Toward a common 4G/5G core network

SPONSORED: Heavy Reading's "Cloud-Native 5G Core Operator Survey" explores the importance of a common 4G/5G core.

Apple ups U.S. investment plans to $430B

Apple plans to dedicate more resources to the U.S., including toward 5G and development of next-generation silicon. On Monday, the iPhone-maker announced an increased commitment to contribute $430 billion to the U.S. economy over the next five years and add 20,000 new jobs.  

Aurora Insight tracks real-time rise of mid-band 5G

Spectrum mapping company Aurora Insight has a bird’s eye view of global 5G deployments, and from where CEO Jennifer Alvarez is sitting, it looks like the U.S. has a lot of ground to make up when it comes to mid-band deployments.

AT&T lands in union crosshairs

AT&T is getting slammed for making changes that lower its costs of doing business in wireless.

Altice USA jumps on Wi-Fi 6 bandwagon

Altice USA rolled out Wi-Fi 6 capabilities for its top-tier Optimum and Suddenlink broadband customers, aiming to keep pace with larger rivals who have already begun pushing the technology out to subscribers.

AT&T’s wireless wherewithal in question – analysts

Even though AT&T reported a strong first quarter for wireless subscribers, some analysts think the operator may be stepping off the 5G playing field as it focuses on other parts of its business.

It’s time for 3G to ride off into the sunset

Every so often American consumers find themselves on the threshold of an exciting new opportunity to transition away from old and obsolete products and embrace powerful new technologies. America’s inventors are amazing, and each day they offer us new creations that make our lives easier. Those of us with some gray hair can remember quite a few technological leaps, such as when we evolved from: AM radio to FM stereo; VHS tapes to DVDs; analog to digital broadcast TV; and over-the-air TV to cable. These changes provided greater efficiency, higher quality content, and better, more reliable services.  

AT&T gives gratis bump-up in fiber speeds

AT&T seems re-invigorated about its AT&T Fiber offering, today announcing that it’s giving its customers a free bump in speeds.

Telefónica looks to the future with the same leader and a retro logo

Spanish telco group Telefónica concluded its AGM by re-electing José María Álvarez-Pallete as Chairman and CEO, and unveiling a rebrand

Everyone’s getting into UK fibre, even Network Rail

The UK fibre market is a hive of activity, with altnets securing investment while the operator of the country’s rail network is looking for £1 billion to upgrade its telecoms network.

Indian Covid crisis prompts surge in state social media censorship

The Indian government seems to be trying to silence public speculation that the recent surge in Covid cases was caused by political gatherings.

Optus talks up ‘golden GHz’ as Australia awards mmWave spectrum

Australia has allocated the vast majority of the 26 GHz spectrum it has available, raising A$647.6 million (just over US$500 million) in the process.

Digital Network Deployment Becomes Main Mode of Future Network

As the saying goes, “It takes a good blacksmith to make steel". The communication network construction and O&M, especially those of 5G networks, are also facing the difficulty of digital transformation. It is expected that we can replace the traditional way of manual statistics, judgement and maintenance, which relies on offline tables, as well as the time-consuming and laborious construction and O&M mode by use of traditional deployment tools, and promote automatic, intelligent, and agile deployment. ZTE, positioned as the “Road builder of digital economy”, focuses on launching the concept of digital network deployment to simplify the complicated network deployment in proactive, agile, insightful, and foreseeable way.

Commercial vs open-source DPI: Does it matter?

Commercial DPI takes traffic detection a notch higher via its ability to detect encrypted and obfuscated traffic. This inherently requires advanced methods such as statistical and behavioral analysis and machine learning, technologies which are not available in open source versions. There are also a lot of hidden costs to open-source DPI. These include the cost of training in-house teams and the cost of hiring third-party vendors for further customization. These costs escalate as new features are developed for specific use cases. How is that different in the case of commercial DPI, and what drives its demand? Find the answers in this article.

Smith Micro Software Shakes Up Mobile Family Safety Landscape

Safer, smarter, faster, and responsive. That’s what the modern family wants from their mobile devices. And, with kids now spending more time online than ever before, parents are concerned about their safety – online and off.

Cox in talks to snap up Segra's enterprise unit – report

Rumored deal, which could have Cox tie the unit into its own business services division, reportedly could be valued at more than $3 billion.

LTD to FCC: We can do it

LTD Broadband won $1.3 billion in the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction. Now, the company is working to convince regulators it will meet its buildout obligations.

Will network operators eventually rent their 5G equipment, too?

Analysts at Cowen say interest in an active/shared RAN solution between tower operators and carriers is on the rise. 'This is exactly in line with the way we're thinking,' says Dish Network's Marc Rouanne.

Daily Roundup: Dell Jumps Into XDR

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Can Huawei ‘Reinvent Itself’ as a Cloud Leader?

Huawei’s radio access network (RAN) business is still the largest in the world, but it’s now hedging its bets against sanctions and bans in multiple countries to build a stronger business in cloud computing and software.

WISPs to command 9M customers by next year – analysts

The Carmel Group predicted fixed wireless Internet providers will generate around $10.9 billion in revenues from their customers by the end of 2025.

Apple pledges 'billions' for chips and 5G in $450B commitment

The world's most valuable company also says it will recruit another 20,000 employees in the next five years.

OneWeb nearer to a two-horse space Internet race

Britain's OneWeb launches 36 more satellites, aiming to switch on a northern-latitudes satellite broadband system by year's end.

Battle brews between Roku and YouTube TV

Roku is balking at proposed terms from Google that, Roku claims, are 'anti-competitive and discriminatory.'

Telefónica and Geotab reconnect for ALD Automotive deal

Another deal has emerged from the 2014 telematics partnership between Telefónica and Geotab.

Intel, Microsoft Fight Cryptojacking With Silicon

Microsoft’s endpoint security software now uses Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to detect cryptomining on customers’ devices.

US operators' edge strategies are still evolving

A recent Analysys Mason edge computing survey of global operators found that 87% said that edge computing was a top strategic priority.

Huawei the likely loser in Orange open RAN plan

Michael Trabbia, the French operator's CTO, insists his open RAN shift is not an attack on Ericsson and Nokia.

Chipset, workforce shortages could hamstring US fiber bonanza

New estimates indicate up to $44 billion could be spent on fiber networks in the US over the next five years. But will there be enough technicians and components for all that spending?

Japan's NTT and India's TCIL partner on new tech

Japan's NTT Advanced Technologies and Telecommunications Consultants of India Limited have formed a two-year alliance to work on new technologies.

Dell Taps Secureworks XDR for Managed Detection, Response

Dell Technologies today became the latest vendor to offer extended detection and response (XDR) with a new managed security service that uses Secureworks’ Taegis XDR.

Apple Pledges $430B Investment for 20,000 Jobs, 5G Gear

Apple said it will invest more than $430 billion over the next five years to add more than 20,000 new jobs in the U.S. and bolster the development of silicon to support 5G equipment and infrastructure.

Eurobites: Telia Finland tops 4Gbit/s 5G over 26GHz

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: UK iPhone users could be in line for privacy payout; Europe addresses chip crunch; Telefónica's transcendental new logo.

Seven-digit dialing will soon come to an end

The days of dialing just seven digits and no area code to reach a neighbor or a local business are rapidly coming to a close for most people. Voice service providers around the U.S. — including wireline, wireless and cable — are notifying their customers that they need to start including area codes and dialing 10-digits when they make a call, regardless of whether that call is local or not.