Friday, September 03, 2021

HPE juggles order boom, supply bottleneck amid Q3 growth

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in its fiscal third quarter (ended July 31) faced both the highs and lows of the new normal in technology sectors: It experienced great demand and increased orders for its products, but also continued to suffer from supply chain constraints for the components needed to power those products, resulting in price increases for its own customers.
           

Multi-gig PON 101: Q&A with Nokia

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.
           

Thursday, September 02, 2021

Microsoft Lifts Amazon, AT&T Telco Talent

Microsoft added some big-league muscle to its Azure cloud executive team this summer that could embolden its market position. The second-largest public cloud provider hired Charlie Bell, a longtime executive at Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to multiple media outlets but his role and area of responsibilities at Azure remains unclear.
           

Federated teams with training group to attract more CBRS workers

Federated Wireless is working with the Learning Alliance Corp. to increase the number of technicians that can work on installations in the Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) shared spectrum band. The two firms say that they plan to issue 2,000 certified professional installer certificates over the next two years.
           

T-Mobile’s Neville Ray extols 14x network capacity increase

Chris Pearson is president of 5G Americas, so you can expect that he would be stoked about 5G. Kicking off yesterday's sessions of the Big 5G Event in Denver, he said there are 178 global, commercial 5G deployments, so far. And by the end of the year there will be at 274. He also said 5G deployments are accelerating, and between 2018 and 2020 in the U.S. about 68,000 cell sites were turned on. That brings the cell site total to 417,215 in 2020 in the U.S. It should be noted these sites are not specific to 5G, since a cell site will support other technologies like 4G LTE as well.
           

Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Celona implements open RAN specs for 5G private networks

Private networks and open RAN are two of the hottest topics in wireless, and if they intersect Celona wants to be ready. The Silicon Valley startup, named for Barcelona where its founders conceived the company, is implementing the O-RAN Alliance’s specifications for private mobile networks.
           

Intel Follows AMD on Chiplet Journey

Intel’s next-generation Xeon Scalable processor family, which it’s calling Sapphire Rapids, is shaping up to be a turning point for the embattled chipmaker despite delays pushing its release back to early next year. Late last month, the company shed some light on the upcoming data center chip during the annual Hot Chips 2021 conference.
           

RDOF postmortem: Can the FCC fix these problems in Phase II?

It might be hyperbole to say the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction was a disaster. But it certainly came with a fair share of problems, the repercussions of which are still being felt as waiver requests for winning bids roll in and disputes over whether or not certain bidders were qualified in the first place rage on. So, how can the FCC ensure the Phase II auction isn’t plagued by the same issues?
           

Cable’s toughest broadband battles will be in the suburbs–Expert

With billions being poured into fiber builds, cable players face the very real prospect of heightened subscriber competition in the coming years. However, one expert told investors on a call hosted by Wells Fargo Securities the fiercest fights for customers might not be in dense urban areas as one might expect, but instead in the surrounding suburbs.
           

HPE scores $2 billion contract with NSA

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help it crunch more data, awarding the vendor a 10-year, $2 billion contract to deliver cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) technology using an as-a-service model.
           

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

HPE GreenLake Nabs $2B NSA Contract

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) walked away with a $2 billion contract from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide high-performance compute capacity via its GreenLake platform.
           

India's Airtel looks to raise funds, possibly from Google

India's second-largest service provider, Bharti Airtel, is in the news for two reasons. The company has come up with rights issues to raise funds for the upcoming 5G battle and to bring down its debt. Further, rumors are circulating that the internet giant Google is in talks with Airtel to invest in the company.
           

Monday, August 30, 2021

Docker Business Tier Centralizes Management, Ramps Security

Docker Inc. updated and extended its product subscriptions, including a new high-end subscription tier for larger companies and an updated pricing structure. The move comes a year after the vendor made a similar change to its core Docker Hub feature that garnered considerable industry attention.
           

Databricks Valuation Soars to $38B on Series H Funding

It turns out the yellow brick road was paved in gold. At least it is for data and storage vendor Databricks, which scored $1.6 billion today in a massive Series H funding round led by Counterpoint Global and joined by Baillie Gifford, ClearBridge Investments, and UC Investments, among others.
           

CISA Issues Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Security Warning

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB vulnerability may have exposed customer data, and it “strongly encourages” all of the cloud database customers to roll and regenerate their certificate keys and review Microsoft’s guidance on securing data.
           

Adtran's ADVA Buy 'Complementary,' but Still a 'Niche Player'

Adtran is positioning its acquisition of ADVA as building a complementary combination of assets that can better capitalize on what it sees as an unprecedented investment cycle in fiber. However, analysts argue that the new combined company would still be just a “niche player” in the market.
           

Wind River CEO: 5G vRAN Propels OT Transformation

Wind River may not be a household name, but its flagship platform stretches into many industries and applications that face common challenges. Wind River Studio, which formally debuted earlier this year, targets what CEO Kevin Dallas describes as the machine economy, or intelligent systems that can learn, adapt, and act autonomously.
           

Why isn't 5G getting more broadband funding?

Between the American Rescue Plan Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), billions of federal dollars are pouring in to fuel broadband deployments. But all of these funding sources have one thing in common: they all focus heavily on fixed (and fixed wireless) deployments. So, why isn’t wireless getting a bigger piece of the pie and more importantly, will that change anytime soon?
           

Apple iPhone 13 rumors rise up with satellite connection

With Apple’s latest iPhone just around the corner, reports suggest that it will include support for satellite communications, which consumers could use when terrestrial-based 4G and 5G are not available. The one getting most of the glory: Globalstar, the once-embattled satellite company.
           

Nokia pauses O-RAN Alliance work

Nokia has put technical work with the O-RAN Alliance on hold over concerns related to contributor companies, with ties to China, in the organization having landed on the U.S. entity list.
           

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Adtran Acquires ADVA to Fight Optical Network Battle

Adtran announced an agreement to acquire German telecommunications equipment vendor and rival ADVA Optical Networking in a deal valued at $931.1 million. The move is positioned at an unprecedented fiber investment cycle that is being targeted by vendors like Cisco, Nokia, Ciena, Huawei, and Infinera. 
           

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