Saturday, December 25, 2021

Friday, December 24, 2021

Thursday, December 23, 2021

This Olde Website: 2021

This year's trek down memory lane of the WWW takes us to Apple, Arris, Dell, Facebook and – hold onto your Santa hats! – a brief tour of Places Jeff Used to Work.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

India wants to do 6G

The last few days have seen senior Indian government officials, including the telecom minister, mention 6G on more than one occasion.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

T-Mobile’s Very Good, Very Bad 2021

T-Mobile US closes out 2021 much like it began: the only wireless carrier in the U.S. running its 5G network on a 5G standalone core. Its mid-band 5G network currently covers 200 million people, and that runs alongside a low-band 5G network covering 308 million people. 

Verizon Bumps 5G Standalone Core to 2022

Verizon’s 5G core won’t be fully deployed and commercially available until 2022 — a delay that affords T-Mobile US continued bragging rights as the only U.S. carrier with 5G services running in standalone (SA) mode. 

Monday, December 20, 2021

Nvidia Challenges Fungible for DPU Dominance

Nvidia today claimed a new record for data processing unit (DPU) performance that saw a pair of BlueField-2 accelerators achieve 41 million IOPS of storage performance. The claim bests Fungible’s own 10 million IOPS record from late last month — at least on paper.

HPE, Dell, and Cisco Push Network-as-a-Service. Will Enterprises Bite?

CEOs of Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Dell Technologies all touted plans in 2021 to offer almost everything as-a-service in the near future. One of these moves is network-as-a-service (NaaS), which brings network agility and scalability to help organizations deal with the challenges of hybrid workforce, distributed systems, and digital transformation acceleration.

The year in DOCSIS 4.0

With early lab trials, a first wave of interoperability testing and collaborations between key suppliers, DOCSIS 4.0 made significant progress in 2021, even as deployments remain well out on the horizon.

AT&T sells Xandr to Microsoft

AT&T, which has been working to exit the media industry and shed related businesses, didn't disclose the sale price of its programmatic advertising business to Microsoft.

Sunday, December 19, 2021

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