BROWSING: Cloud

Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...

The current economic climate might be uncertain, but one thing is not: companies are still heavily investing in high-bandwidth network services. FiberLight recently surveyed 1,750 corporate and IT executives, and a resounding 88% said that they are still very much investing in high-bandwidth network services...

Cisco has introduced a number of new cloud services in its IoT operations dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and manage assets remotely and securely. At its annual Cisco Live event in Amsterdam, the firm said it had focused on ways to bridge the...

Vital network functions are moving from hardware to virtualized software instances, and those software instances are increasingly being deployed in cloud environments. The goal is to give operators access to the scale, economics and innovative potential associated with the cloud. But, in a new paradigm...

The evolution to 5G, digital services, IoT, cloud-native and virtualized architectures is driving an evolution in network testing. To keep up with the new requirements and expectations, next-gen network testing must operate in real-time and at multiple levels to deliver new solutions that are...

SFR currently provides 5G services in 6,200 municipalities across France French telco SFR announced it has selected Finnish vendor Nokia for the deployment of its 5G Standalone (SA) core network, the former said in a release. As part of its ongoing 5G deployment, SFR has signed...

In August 2022, Spark had completed what it claimed to be the first end-to-end 5G SA network trial in the country New Zealand telco Spark, together with Ericsson ​and Red Hat, announced the successful completion of a 5G Standalone (5G SA) trial in New Zealand. Spark...

The technology that fuels connectivity powers some of the greatest innovations known to mankind – yet the supporting infrastructure behind it is failing to keep pace.  Download Mavenir’s latest white paper which identifies five key security principles designed to drive the transition to open systems...

As the telecommunications industry enters 2023, economic times are uncertain and capital and operational costs are under increased pressure. Customers need to be better understood and served. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) need to understand and manage their environment better. New skills in the workforce...

Anant Maheshwari, president of Microsoft India, said that the collaboration will help customers build green and secured networks Indian company Tech Mahindra has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to enable cloud-powered 5G core network modernization for telecom operators globally. In a release, Microsoft India noted...

Huawei also expects to keep R&D investment at a high level in 2023 Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies estimated that its 2022 revenues remained flat compared to the previous year, despite continued sanctions by the U.S. government. "U.S. restrictions are now our new normal, and we're back...

Professional services company Ernst & Young Global (EY) has announced a partnership with Germany-based enterprise data and analytics company Software AG to help enterprises with digital change in India and Germany, initially, rolling out to other markets. The partnership is focused on digitalisation, process...

Our world is shifting into a new era of modernization, and much like the private sector, governments are feeling the effects. Even before the pandemic, residents and constituents were getting used to — and sometimes demanding — that services be provided digitally. The need...

In this 5G project, O2 Telefónica said it is working closely together with partners Google Cloud and Ericsson German operator O2 Telefónica, owned by Spanish telco Telefónica, said it will move its 5G core network in Germany to the cloud in the future, with the...

Telefonica Germany said it has been testing Nokia's cloud RAN tech in Potsdam German carrier O2 Telefónica, which is controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said it is currently using cloud RAN technology from Nokia in its 5G network. The telco noted that cloud RAN allows parts...

Network design and services firm Betacom has struck a channel sales deal (“integrated delivery model”) with Qualcomm whereby enterprise customers in the Industry 4.0 space will be able to link Betacom’s private 5G network design and management service with Qualcomm’s RAN automation and management...

Teridion Technologies provides multi-cloud WAN systems to connect business premises to cloud centers Deutsche Telekom has invested $25 million in Teridion Technologies, a cloud connectivity software start-up that the operator has been working with since early 2022, to strengthen its connectivity offering to enterprises. Per...

Fixed Wireless Access broadband to the home presents a real, substantial new revenue stream for Communications Service Providers. But delivering a reliable and high-performance FWA link to the home is only half the challenge: Ultimately, it is the in-home Wi-Fi experience that will make...

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month put the spotlight on the discipline of private 5G and edge system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other...

AT&T said it already operates 10 localized 5G network capabilities “edge zones” across the U.S. U.S. operator AT&T said it is implementing regional Standalone (SA) 5G cores for the deployment of edge networks, which enables the carrier to offer low-latency services. “5G was designed and is...

Nokia said that nbn’s existing FWA network currently covers almost 650,000 premises across Australia Nokia announced it has been selected by Australian broadband operator nbn to supply 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) mmWave customer premises equipment (CPE) for the latter’s fixed wireless network upgrade. In a...

US-based food manufacturing giant Mars has rolled out digital twin technology, marrying IoT sensor outputs with AI analytics inputs in a edge/cloud dashboard, across its factories in the US, specifically to reduce instances of over-filling packages in food production. The solution, designed with IT...

VMware said that the Next G-AI Research and Innovation Center is part of the TETRA initiative VMware announced the opening of the VMware Next G-AI Research and Innovation Center in Montreal, Canada. In a release, the company noted that the new facility will bring together VMware's...

Both private network deployments involve the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud solution Nokia announced two 5G private network deployments yesterday: One in Brazil at the manufacturing facilities of electronics provider Flex Brazil, and another at MEXT, the Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries Technology Center, in...