Saturday, June 19, 2021

Nvidia, Arm CEOs Talk Troubled Merger

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, flanked by Arm CEO Simon Segars, made the case for why the computing giants should be allowed to merge in a deal valued at $40 billion during this week’s Six Five Summit.
           

Friday, June 18, 2021

Dish Pushes Nokia 5G Core to AWS

Dish Network intends to run Nokia’s 5G standalone (SA) core software on Amazon Web Services (AWS), making it one of the first operator’s to deploy its network core in a public cloud.
           

NTIA's new broadband map ruffles feathers at NCTA

NCTA – The Internet and Television Association accused the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of muddying the waters around broadband availability following the release of a new interactive map which combines public and private data about internet access.
           

Multi-cloud networking 101: Q&A with Aviatrix

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.
           

Thursday, June 17, 2021

KDDI Nabs Nokia for CO2-Slashing Baseband Trial

Nokia and Japan’s KDDI announced plans to trial the vendor’s Liquid Cooling AirScale Baseband system, which they claim is the first trial of its kind in Japan. The trial will target substantial energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions related to cooling systems.
           

Letter from Germany: Fiber is coming! — Entner

As some of you may know, I am splitting my time between the United States and Germany. This gives me a good overview of what consumer broadband solutions are available in Germany because I am living it and working in it rather than glorifying it from thousands of miles away.
           

Nokia bags 5G RAN deal in Denmark

Nokia will be the sole supplier of 5G radio equipment for the Danish network joint venture between Telia and Telenor, which recently picked up new spectrum to enable it to forge ahead with 5G rollout.
           

MobiledgeX sits in middle of multi-cloud networking craze

MobiledgeX is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom that provides software for edge computing, and the company is at the forefront of the multi-cloud networking craze. Today it announced its MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud 3.0, which puts a focus on providing a common interface to manage public and private edge clouds.
           

Verizon Public Sector notches $495M DoD contract

Verizon’s Public Sector unit has earned a $495 million deal from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy switches, routers, firewalls and edge computing capabilities, as well as managed services, to support the DoD’s research and high-performance computing facilities.
           

AWS takes Vodafone to the edge

The trend of operators outsourcing as much of their infrastructure as possible to public cloud giants continued with the launch of Vodafone’s first European multi-access Edge computing services.
           

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Google Stiffs Intel, Taps AMD for Value VMs

Intel’s data center dominance may be slipping as hyperscale and cloud data centers increasingly opt for competing chips from AMD and Arm chipmakers. Google Cloud Platform in particular has become increasingly reliant on chips from team red in recent years. The cloud provider continued that trend today with the launch of its latest family of virtual machines (VMs) powered by AMD’s EPYC 3 CPUs.
           

Samsung demos 6G THz with UCSB

Samsung Electronics is celebrating a demonstration it did in collaboration with the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB): the application of Terahertz (THz) spectrum for 6G wireless communications.
           

Windstream Cloud Connect offers direct link to AWS, Google

Windstream’s Kinetic Business unit rolled out a new Cloud Connect product offering enterprises dedicated connections to third-party and private clouds, aiming to streamline network architecture and improve the security of data transmissions to and from these environments.
           

Deeper dive — What is hollow core fiber?

U.K. operator BT recently made headlines when it revealed trials of an advanced optical technology known as hollow core fiber (HCF). At the time, the company touted HCF as a potential tool to help slash network costs and enable advanced use cases with latency-sensitive requirements. But what exactly is hollow core fiber, how might it change the game and when?
           

Vodafone deploys AWS Wavelength in London, plans for Dusseldorf

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Vodafone confirmed today that they’ve now deployed AWS Wavelength zones in London on Vodafone’s 4G/5G network. The partners said late in 2020 that they were planning to do this. They also said today that they’re planning to deploy another AWS Wavelength location at Vodafone’s mobile network in Dusseldorf, Germany with general availability scheduled for later in 2021.
           

Syniverse and AlefEdge partner for 5G edge

AlefEdge and Syniverse are partnering in an effort to offer enterprise customers a turnkey 5G edge network solution. Syniverse will supply the private wireless network elements, and AlefEdge will contribute edge compute functions and access to a growing stable of application developers.
           

Cisco’s Robbins says good hygiene is key to enterprise security

As corporations, universities and governments face the threat of ransomware attacks and security breaches, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the problem isn’t that there aren’t security systems available to protect these entities from attacks, it’s that human behavior is making them possible. “The technology is there. The security products are there,” Robbins said. “But human behavior has to follow. Most attacks are made possible by bad hygiene.”
           

Spirent sees 800G market heating up

A executive from test and assurance company Spirent highlighted a ramp in interest around 800G solution testing in recent months, as the company announced the successful validation of Intel Silicon Photonics’ 800G optical transceiver.
           

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Akamai Battles Bots, Fraudsters at the Edge

Akamai today unleashed several updates to its edge security platform that protect web applications, APIs, and user accounts from malicious human and bot activity and automates threat detection and response.
           

Ericsson, Anterix collaborate on 900 MHz

Ericsson is no stranger to the enterprise space – or private LTE, for that matter. But it’s adding more to its portfolio by way of a collaboration with Anterix, the largest holder of licensed and contiguous 900 MHz spectrum in the U.S.
           

Monday, June 14, 2021

Red Hat Moves Toward Mass VM Migrations

Red Hat launched general availability of its migration for virtualization platform to help enterprises refactor workloads from virtual machines (VMs) into its cloud-native focused OpenShift platform. The move also continues what has been an ongoing push by cloud providers to help enterprises in their digital transformation efforts.
           

Intel creates IPU to optimize compute resources

Data centers already use central processing units (CPUs) and graphical processing units (GPUs). Today, Intel unveiled its infrastructure processing unit (IPU). The IPU is a programmable networking device to maximize processor efficiency in data centers.
           

Verizon’s telematics unit shifts from 3G to 4G

It’s one thing to make sure consumers are equipped with the right handsets when the time comes to sunset 3G networks. It’s another thing when you’re talking about replacing gizmos in fleets of cars and other vehicles. Many of these GPS devices are supposed to last well past the typical handset upgrade, but fleet managers are being told that they need to replace their 3G devices with 4G/LTE modules.
           

More than 50 groups press Biden to fill open FCC seat

A coalition of 57 public interest groups pressed U.S. President Joe Biden to fill an open seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which has remained vacant since January, arguing the move is necessary to break a political deadlock and make progress on key issues.
           

Vendors trial CBRS model for California schools

Online school has been a huge challenge for Sacramento Unified School District, where more than 70% of the students qualify for free or subsidized lunch programs and roughly a quarter have no broadband connection. At Leataata Floyd Elementary School dropout rates rose during 2020 as students fell hopelessly behind without internet access.
           

Private Networks: Embracing mmWave 5G

The stage is set for private 5G 5G promises to change the business landscape perhaps more than any other generation of wireless technology. While 4G enabled a host of enterprise-specific mobile applications, 5G will enable a new form of business connectivity. Enterprises will be able to choose wireless as their primary form of connectivity, for both IT and OT. Private networks will change the game for both service providers and enterprises. For service providers, private networks will be one of the biggest revenue generators associated with 5G. For enterprises, these networks will combine the flexibility of Wi-Fi with the security and reliability of cellular. As offices reopen after the pandemic, hardly a day goes by without news of another company that has committed to a private cellular network. The global pandemic underscored the value of robust, secure wireless networks, and now that Release 16 has been finalized vendors are bringing to market equipment that will help enterprises realize the promise of 5G. The promise of 5G is high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networks that can connect people, machines and cloud-native applications. Actionable analytics, IoT, artificial intelligence and augmented reality are all enabled by private 5G networks. But not all 5G is created equal. The fastest, highest capacity 5G connections are mmWave connections. For environments such as factory floors, stadiums or retail centers, mmWave 5G networks can offer the most value because their speed and bandwidth is unparalleled.The advantages of mmWave Many of the enterprise use cases that will benefit from 5G will require high bandwidth connections. For example, when robots are used to perform surgery or operate mission critical machinery, the humans controlling these machines need ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC).  The stakes are high and milliseconds can be crucial. To ensure performance, mmWave connections currently need to prioritize URLLC traffic over mobile broadband traffic in these high-stakes deployments. Private networks enable enterprises with the capacity and ability to prioritize mission critical traffic and safeguard data. Data analytics enabled by edge computing will also be made possible by mmWave 5G private networks. Platforms like AWS Outposts and Azure Edge Zones enable companies to install cloud-based applications on or near their premises, and mmWave 5G private networks will deliver the bandwidth needed to leverage these applications.
           

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Intel Carves Private Networks Role

Private networks are a budding but thus far unpollinated opportunity for purveyors of converged and modern network infrastructure. Intel is one of many technology companies targeting this space amid hopes that it will grow at a rapid pace, as widely expected, and push its products and services into new industries and frameworks.
           

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