BROWSING: Accedian

Cisco has announced plans to buy out private-equity-backed network monitoring and assurance company Accedian, which has been partnering with the IT and networking giant on assurance for telco networks. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, and the transaction is expected to...

Keysight Technologies and Accedian are putting together a cloud-native service assurance collaboration, announcing this week that they are teaming up to address the issues that service providers face as they transition to next-generation networks. CSPs, the two companies said, "require continuous, end-to-end performance testing...

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

UK telecoms integrator Colt Technology Services is leading a private 5G consortium including Accedian, ADVA, Airspan, and Athonet to test end-to-end private cellular in a real estate environment in France. The setup uses a disaggregated architecture, and has a bearing on related verticals, notably...

Canada based performance analytics software company Accedian has joined the UK government’s 5G-ENCODE project, billed as the UK’s largest trial of industrial 5G. Accedian will introduce performance monitoring and assurance to the project’s private LTE / 5G setup at the National Composites Centre (NCC)...

Accedian's Chief Strategy Officer: 'There is immense opportunity in 5G, the cloud and edge, for both customers and service providers' RCR Wireless News spoke with Accedian’s Chief Strategy Officer Richard Piasentin about what service providers need to do to ensure that they are well-positioned to...

Forty percent of enterprises are frequently experiencing network performance degradation, slow-downs or congestion that impact applications but don't rise to the level of complete outages, according to new research from Accedian. "Since COVID-19, businesses across industries expedited digital transformation efforts to facilitate remote working and...

Voice calls and virtual private network use continue to be far higher than usual, as people across the country navigate teleworking, distance learning and staying in touch with each other during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Verizon and AT&T are providing multiple weekly updates on trends...

Network architectures are becoming more complex and decentralized. Applications are becoming more advanced, data-heavy, and compute-intensive. Both trends will continue as communications service providers (CSPs) upgrade their 4G networks first, and then begin the migration to 5G. While doing so, service providers are transforming their...

Cable company Charter Communications plans to build a 100-node private network at its offices in Centennial, Colorado, using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz to test the technology's ability to support an enterprise network located mostly indoors. According to an Special Temporary...

P3's crowdsourced data finds LTE coverage gaps Interstate highways are often one place where people assume they will have solid cellular coverage -- and that's mostly true, but there are still "white spots" where coverage isn't available or where only devices will only have weak...

While T-Mobile US came out ahead of Verizon by a hair on LTE availability on a national level in OpenSignal's most recent round of app-based testing, regional battles have heated up in the past year, according to the company. Verizon came out in top in...

Accedian buys Performance Vision Accedian announced its acquisition of network and application performance management (NPM/APM) provider Performance Vision as part of an initiative to grow its revenue, and expand into new markets and business segments. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed. Performance Vision offers...

TIM Brasil to use Accedian’s SkyLIGHT virtualized solution as part of recent partnership Accedian, a performance assurance solution specialist for mobile networks and enterprise-to-data center connectivity, announced it is teaming up with Brazilian national operator TIM Brasil. As part of the partnership, TIM Brasil will...

The virtualized network train has left the station, and operators and vendors are having to lay track as they go on the way to their final destination - commercial-scale, self-optimizing, virtualized networks. These networks might sound like science fiction, but in fact they’re already here....

EXFO says it will see improvements in 2018 due to restructuring EXFO's sales were down slightly year-over-year to $58.5 million, compared to $60.9 million in the same period last year. Net loss for the company's fiscal third quarter was $4.3 million, compared to a profit...

Sprint will work with New York University Wireless for mobile "5G" development, in a partnership announced this week. Sprint is joining the university's 5G research center as an industry affiliate sponsor and weill get early access to research, work with students and faculty on 5G-related...

Rohde and Schwarz says it has developed the first tester for measuring over-the-air transmit power in millimeter wave frequencies, with support for development of both cellular "5G" and the frequencies planned for use in 802.11ad and 802.11ay. The NRPM OTA power measurement test solution has...

Network and service assurance remain a top priority for telecom operators, though views on what those assurance levels need to be in environments for virtualized networks remains in flux. This webinar will look at some of the challenges telecom operators and vendors are facing in terms...

Network and service assurance remain a top priority for telecom operators, though views on what those assurance levels need to be in a virtualized environment remain in flux. Assuring virtualized networks will be critical going forward. This report looks at some of the challenges telecom...

What is the connection between VoLTE and 5G networks? Spectrum and the ability for wireless carriers to refarm 2G and 3G spectrum for next-gen services Operators around the world continue to make steady progress implementing voice-over-LTE services. According to the General Services Administration, as of...

A mobile network should draw lessons from cloud providers to adapt to new traffic, application and service demands that threaten to destabilize quality of experience, and limit opportunities for growth. Although trends are emerging, MNOs are still unsure how applications (video, IoT, wearables, etc.) will impact...

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Accedian Networks about network QoS related to SDN, NFV and 5G On today’s show we have an interview with Scott Sumner, VP of...

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Accedian Networks about network QoS related to SDN, NFV and 5G On today’s show we have an interview with Scott Sumner, VP of...