Saturday, November 20, 2021

Half-Baked Business Models Hamper 5G’s Potential

5G might not be a complete flop, but it’s sure in jeopardy of falling flat. Consider how far 5G has come and yet how little it’s achieved or inspired. Where are the killer apps? What’s the business model? These challenges persist and show little sign of waning anytime soon. 
           

Friday, November 19, 2021

Thursday, November 18, 2021

How cable views the edge

In this second segment of a four-part series, we look at more key results from a new Heavy Reading study about the cable industry's edge computing views and approach.
           

SASE, XDR Ignite Palo Alto Networks’ Q1 Revenues

Palo Alto Networks capped off its Ignite virtual event this week by posting first-quarter fiscal 2022 revenues of $1.25 billion, which grew 32% on the strength of the company’s secure access service edge (SASE) and extended detection and response (XDR) portfolios.
           

TIP creates fixed broadband project group

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) this week launched a fixed broadband project group, dubbed FiBr, to help operators build and operate their fixed line networks.   Representatives from Vodafone and Telefónica are chairing the new group.
           

FCC’s Rosenworcel talks net neutrality, maps, spectrum

U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel backed net neutrality, Universal Service Fund reform and a unified government approach to spectrum issues, addressing these and other topics during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee this week.
           

Cisco CEO: Customers 'super-frustrated' about supply issues

Cisco Systems saw revenue jump across its networking equipment-related businesses during its fiscal first quarter of 2021. But like other technology companies, it’s facing a near-term future in which healthy demand is going to out-pace meager supply, due to shortages of chips and other materials.
           

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Casa Systems flexes its MAC

Billed as a pathway to the future '10G' network, supplier says its new Flexible MAC Architecture (FMA) platform is in trials with tier 1 operators in multiple regions.
           

How COVID-19 derailed edge computing

Prior to the pandemic, EdgeMicro, Vapor IO, MobiledgeX, Alef and others had grand plans to support edge computing across the country and world. But COVID-19 Internet traffic spikes changed those plans.
           

Adtran, ADVA chase $13.7B TAM, target growth in U.S., Europe

Telecom vendors Adtran and ADVA already felt like they had a compelling case for a tie-up when the former announced plans to acquire the latter in August. But the companies now believe their total addressable market (TAM) could be nearly double the $7.1 billion figure previously touted thanks to an influx of government funding for new broadband rollouts.
           

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Nokia Makes Good on SaaS Push for 5G Operators

Nokia continues to make good on a key objective to make its software for network operators available as a service. The vendor today revealed a trio of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings and said it’s targeting a SaaS addressable market of a cumulative $3.1 billion through 2025.
           

The future of fiber optic innovation: Part I

Optical fiber has taken us on a 50-year journey, enabling communication capabilities that we never imagined possible. Now looking forward ten, 20, and even a full 50 years, we examine what the future holds for optical fiber communications.
           

Fortinet Fortifies Microsoft Azure vWAN With SD-WAN, Firewalls

Fortinet teamed up with Microsoft to drive its SD-WAN and next-generation firewalls into the Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) today. The security vendor claims the integration will enable customers to extend consistent security policies across their WAN whether they’re connecting to an on-premises data center, a workload running in Azure, or between clouds.
           

Alan Davidson, an unknown in telecom, could become critical

While people have focused on President Biden’s nominations of Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Gigi Sohn as an FCC commissioner, Biden also nominated Alan Davidson to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and there haven’t been a lot of headlines about that nomination.
           

T-Mobile aims for 300M by 2023 with 2.5 GHz

T-Mobile this week is celebrating the milestone of reaching 200 million people with its 2.5 GHz spectrum six weeks ahead of schedule. The next big goal is to cover 300 million people with 2.5 GHz by the end of 2023, but is it really going to take that long?
           

Monday, November 15, 2021

Qualcomm CEO: Network, Industrial Transformation Ties Us to the Cloud

Qualcomm today articulated a strategy to push its chipset platform into IoT, networking, edge computing, and automotive — positioning itself for a sevenfold addressable market jump during the next decade. The silicon giant said it expects that total opportunity to grow from about $100 billion today to $700 billion in the next 10 years.
           

Palo Alto Networks Cozies Up to CNAPP at Ignite

Palo Alto Networks kicked off its annual Ignite conference with new capabilities across its secure access services edge (SASE) and cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP). It also added a managed detection and response partner program based on its extended detection and response (XDR).
           

The Altimeter Games: More news of the weird from D.C. — Entner

The U.S. airline industry signed onto a letter expressing its great concern about the 5G C-Band rollout affecting “safe and efficient aviation operations in the United States.” The letter is signed by IATA, NACA, The Boeing Company, the Air Line Pilots Association International and many more companies and associations from the aeronautics field.
           

Frontier prepares to pounce on federal broadband funding

Frontier Communications is gearing up to capitalize on broadband funding opportunities created by the recent passage of a sprawling U.S. infrastructure bill, with CFO Scott Beasley pointing to the federal dollars as a key part of its fiber expansion plan. But one thing that's not part of its strategy is the launch of its own MVNO offer, the executive said. 
           

Network Automation Reduces Labour Time, Error Rates and Costs

Many operators have begun their network automation journeys but are at different stages and have taken different approaches. Different operators serving diverse customer bases and geographies, and at different scales of operations have varying needs for automating tools to suit their situation. We interviewed multiple operators, and their responses illustrate the patchwork progress of automation,
           

Sunday, November 14, 2021

T-Mobile’s Mid-Band 5G Network Surpasses 200M People Covered

T-Mobile US is running up the score with mid-band 5G deployments as the operator today hit its year-end target of 200 million people covered at least six weeks early. The carrier pushed mid-band 5G coverage to 185 million people in late October and expanded its footprint to an additional 5 million people a week later.
           

Intel Bug Exposes Encryption Keys

Got a laptop or appliance running one of Intel’s low-power CPUs? A BIOS update might be in order. A vulnerability affecting multiple Intel processor families was disclosed today by researchers at Positive Technologies.
           

Xilinx Challenges Nvidia's Lock on HPC Market

Xilinx unveiled its most powerful data center accelerator yet at Supercomputing 2021 today. The chipmaker claims the FPGA can accelerate streaming data, high input/output (I/O) math, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads while consuming less power and space than competing GPUs from Nvidia.
           

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