Saturday, May 22, 2021

Friday, May 21, 2021

AT&T remains last in 3-horse race to 5G – analysts

It’s been nearly a week since AT&T revealed the planned spin-out of WarnerMedia to combine with Discovery Inc., leaving it with more firepower when it comes to broadband and wireless. But all in all, it’s still not enough to propel the carrier above rivals in wireless, according to a few analyst reports in the intervening days.
           

AT&T builds private 5G network to help cancer patients

The image above shows a breast cancer pathology slide on the left, and the same slide on the right overlaid with an AI-generated heat map. Los Angeles's Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (named for Oracle founder Larry Ellison) uses this image to show how artificial intelligence can save lives and transform patient outcomes. Now, the Ellison Institute is investing in 5G to help scale AI to help more patients.
           

Cloud 101: Q&A with HPE's Phil Mottram

Fierce's Cloud 101 Q&A series goes back to basics, aiming to help readers build in-depth knowledge about key cloud concepts and the overall market through progressive interviews with industry experts.
           

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Open RAN Could Pump $285B Into Global Economy by 2030

Open radio access network (RAN) technology coupled with a collective push to disaggregate network infrastructure could add at least $285 billion to gross domestic product (GDP) globally by the end of this decade, according to new research from Analysys Mason.
           

Software Shields Palo Alto Networks From Chip Shortage

Palo Alto Networks’ growing emphasis on software-based security helped to insulate the vendor from supply chain restraints due to the global semiconductor shortage, CEO Nikesh Arora said on Thursday’s third-quarter fiscal 2021 earnings call.
           

T-Mobile entices small businesses with FWA, Facebook marketing

T-Mobile executives have been saying the company plans to make a big push into the small- and medium-sized business market. Today the company said that big push will begin on June 1 when it begins offering three new services for SMBs. It will offer Small Business Internet, which is a fixed wireless access (FWA) service. It’s also designed new smartphone plans for SMBs, and it’s created a new program — Facebook Advertising on Us — to help businesses with their marketing strategies.
           

Virgin/O2 UK merger to close this month

The merger of UK mobile operator O2 with cableco Virgin Media is set to close in a matter of days, having cleared its final regulatory hurdle: the approval of the competition watchdog.
           

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Daily Round Up: Chip Shortage Bytes Cisco

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox.
           

Discovery deal is best hope to rescue AT&T — Raynovich

AT&T and its CEO John Stankey are taking some dramatic steps to rescue AT&T from a decade of poor financial decisions that have left the company laden with debt and underperforming assets for shareholders. This week’s announcement to spin off media assets is the right decision.
           

Altice buys half a French MVNO

Altice France plans to acquire Afone Participations, a provider of telecoms and electronic payments services that holds a 50% stake in a medium-sized MVNO.
           

The No. 1 reason some Americans don't use the internet — Entner

The U.S. Government, through the NTIA, has been surveying internet usage since 2001. Since 2009, it has also been surveying reasons for not using the internet. Of all the studies that are currently under consideration to be used to justify the broadband stimulus plan, the government’s own NTIA Internet Use Survey, which was done before the conception of the plan, is the most unbiased and insightful. As universal internet access is a foregone conclusion in the current debate, the reasons why people are not using the internet have been reduced to just two factors — lack of availability and cost — when there is a lot more to the story.
           

US consumers happier with Samsung than Apple

Customer satisfaction in the US mobile market hasn’t changed much in the past 12 months, the latest data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) shows, which, against the backdrop of a global pandemic, is clearly a good thing.
           

CSPs Open Up About Open RAN Expectations and Plans

Open RAN gives Communications Service Providers (CSPs) more choice and flexibility to deploy their radio networks. It is expected to become a vital component for the future success of 5G. As the RAN buildout is the biggest investment in the 5G network, the ability to extend radio capacity quickly and efficiently will determine how CSPs can deploy and monetize 5G services. To gain insight into what leading service providers are currently thinking about Open RAN and its potential financial impacts, Dell Technologies and Intel Corporation recently co-sponsored two reports by ACG Research:
           

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Netflix, VMware Security Leads Talk 3 Lessons Learned

The theme of the RSA Conference this year is resilience, which applies well to the security industry as well as society as a whole. Both had to adapt to previously unknown, persistent threats over the past year. Maybe it’s just the pandemic lens, but there seems to be more reflection about lessons learned at this year’s event.
           

Ampere Teases Next-Gen Altra CPUs, Microsoft Customer Win

When you think of data center chips, Intel and AMD probably spring to mind. But up-and-coming Arm chipmaker Ampere is on a conquest to change that. The company aims to be the de facto choice for cloud-native and scale-out workloads, and it’s already making significant headway.
           

Verizon Business chief revenue officer aims to grow revenues 4%

Sampath Sowmyanarayan took the new role of chief revenue officer for Verizon Business a couple of months ago. He’s responsible for all of Verizon Business’ revenues, which currently amount to about $32 billion per year, out of Verizon’s total revenues of about $120 billion. There are 26,000 Verizon Business employees out of about 132,000 Verizon employees in total. He reports to Verizon Business Group CEO Tami Erwin.
           

DT rumored to want majority control of T-Mobile US

The German news outlet Handelsblatt is reporting that Deutsche Telekom wants to take a majority ownership in T-Mobile US. It predicts that DT CEO Timothy Hoettges will present his plan for this on Thursday at DT's Capital Markets Day.
           

Ribbon zeros in on metro fiber networks

Ribbon Communications CEO Bruce McClelland in 2020 laid out an ambitious agenda to raise the company’s profile in telecom after it acquired networking assets from ECI Telecom Group in late 2019. A year later the executive shared a more refined vision of its strategy, telling Fierce that unlike some of its larger competitors it doesn’t see a need to chase 800G in the short term.
           

Monday, May 17, 2021

Fortinet EDR Gains MDR, Mitre Threat Tags

Fortinet’s endpoint detection and response platform (EDR) got an overhaul during this week’s RSA virtual conference. The predictably named FortiEDR gains new managed detection and response (MDR) and Mitre threat tags.
           

Microsoft, CrowdStrike Lead Gartner’s Power-Packed EPP Quad

Microsoft and CrowdStrike led a star-studded field of cybersecurity vendors in Gartner’s latest ranking of endpoint protection platforms (EPP). Those two vendors were far-and-away to the most upper-right of the analyst firm’s latest Magic Quadrant, leaving behind big names such as McAfee, VMware Carbon Black, and Cisco.
           

AT&T’s spin-off of WarnerMedia frees up money for 5G

AT&T is combining its WarnerMedia unit with Discovery in a deal that will garner AT&T about $43 billion. WarnerMedia and Discovery, together, will focus on becoming a pure-play content company, serving direct-to-consumer streaming services globally.
           

Windstream wants 1,000 new workers to fuel fiber build

Windstream's Kinetic broadband division revealed a plan to boost its employee roster by almost 20%, hiring nearly 1,000 new workers in construction and construction management to fuel a previously announced five-year, $2 billion fiber build project.
           

Tools to Design, Test and Deploy the Latest Telecom Technology

As 5G networks move from lab to field deployment, field engineers, technicians and contractors are addressing numerous challenges to ensure a successful deployment. Validating 5G in the lab is one thing, but scaling it requires robust and efficient test and verification solutions. With 5G technologies and applications, we are on the verge of some of the most significant scientific and industrial developments the world has ever seen.
           

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Colt hires former Google Cloud exec to lead strategy

Colt Technology Services today announced the appointment of yet another highly accomplished woman to its executive leadership team. The company has hired Jaya Deshmukh for the new role of executive vice president of strategy and transformation. She’ll report directly to Colt’s CEO Keri Gilder.
           

Can Silicon Security Stop Cyberattacks? Intel Says Yes

As Intel faces stiffer competition on the performance front from rival AMD and up-and-coming Arm chipmakers like Apple and Ampere, the company is talking up its silicon security prowess. Over the past few years, the chipmaker has steadily expanded the security functionality baked into its processors.
           

McAfee Unites XDR, SASE at RSA Conference

McAfee connected its extended detection and response (XDR) and secure access service edge (SASE) platforms in a move the vendor says provides better threat protection and simplifies the security operations center (SOC).
           

Cisco CEO: Cybercrime Damages Hit $6 Trillion

Cybercrime costs organizations $6 trillion in global damages, according to Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, who delivered an RSA Conference keynote this morning while his company unveiled a bevy of updates to its security products.
           

Is Rakuten the Best or Worst Example of Open RAN?

Rakuten earned a lot of respect and goodwill for its bold decision to build a mobile network on completely different and largely unproven architecture, but are its challenges doing more harm than good to the open RAN vision at large?
           

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