BROWSING: Cloud

This article, recounting an interview with Accenture’s ‘cloud-first’ commander Jefferson Wang at MWC at the end of last month, might be taken as a companion piece, of sorts, with last week’s replay of an MWC meeting with Jennifer Artley (see here and here), in...

IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona last month. Ozzie, the avuncular former tech chief at Microsoft, who steered the US...

As 5G marks its fifth year in commercial availability, network monetization is elusive and it seems the best is (hopefully) still to come. The shift from 5G Non-standalone to Standalone is a pivotal moment, introducing a new cloud-native core, revolutionary service-based architecture and dynamic management for...

As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026. AWS said in a release that the new infrastructure region will...

MWC, Barcelona; last week. Red Hat and Intel have developed a (relatively) easy and cheap edge/cloud computing solution for enterprises to deploy and multiply AI-based applications on private 5G networks. The duo have a reference solution, they said, which easily flexes distributed edge/cloud compute...

MWC 2024: Bleary-eyed and dead-on-our-feet, after 72 hours in Barcelona and 24 hours in briefings… MWC is not just a telco show, anymore; it is not even a telecoms show, really. Which reflects well on the event itself, as well as the industry that puts...

Ericsson claimed the deployment is the first cloud RAN project in Europe Swedish vendor Ericsson and German operator O2 Telefonica will start deploying Cloud RAN technology to support the latter’s 5G Standalone (SA) network in Offenbach, Germany in the first half of 2024. The vendor said...

The transition of telecom core functions from purpose-built hardware to commercially available servers has introduced a number of challenges, including compute density, power efficiency, and performance optimization in a cloud environment.  Since this large-scale migration kicked off about ten years ago, we’ve seen a...

The Paragon platform will soon be used by Masmovil clients, specifically, through Galician operator R Spanish operator Masmovil has partnered with Singaporean telco Singtel to launch what it claims to be Spain's first all-in-one platform for the management of 5G networks, edge computing, cloud and...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Android takes top...

This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 system that hits the mark. Because, when novel technology is brought to market by...

A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, and its strategy and thought leadership to develop the co-creation story in digital transformation...

Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in the business, and the UK-based operator also commit $1.5 billion over the period to...

Vantage's longtime financial backers lead the investment, driven by anticipated need for more data center capacity Vantage Data Centers has garnered $6.4 billion in equity investment, lead by digital infrastructure investment company DigitalBridge and tech backer Silver Lake, that the data center company says will...

Germany-headquartered IoT MVNO 1NCE has announced a series of software plugins in its cloud-based connectivity management platform to accelerate IoT development projects, and spearhead its development as an open software system for global IoT connectivity. It claims to have posted a 33 percent jump...

Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and high-power, and in between) to set the conversation for 2024-in-tech. Enjoy. 1 | Smart...

With the new launch in Canada, AWS now has 105 availability zones across 33 geographic regions Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its second infrastructure region in Canada, the company said in a release. With the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, AWS noted it was the first...

As we embark on the journey into 2024, the telecom landscape stands at the threshold of a profound transformation: In the realm of technology convergence, envision cloud computing, container/microservices architecture edge computing and CI/CD practices blending seamlessly for the 5G crescendo, akin to technological Avengers...

BT has started to roll-out its global network-as-a-service (NaaS) offer in carrier neutral metro-edge cloud facilities (CNFs) around the world. The service, offered as Global Fabric, was announced in October; the UK-based telecoms group has since expanded a deal with US real estate investment...

Rakuten Mobile has recently started R&D on the advancement of edge platform functions for the next communication standard after 5G Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said that its research and development (R&D) project into advanced edge cloud technologies for next-generation communications has been selected by Japan’s...

Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas. During the...

The 5G network transition is now underway to what many true believers would consider “real 5G:” the implementation of Standalone 5G with the cloud-native mobile packet core. While the initial rollout of 5G was focused on introducing 5G spectrum to boost capacity, 5G Standalone...

The new team of researchers in India will work with Ericsson research teams in Sweden and the U.S. Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the launch of its "India 6G" program with the formation of an India 6G Research team in its Chennai R&D Center. In a release,...

This report provides a firsthand reflection on the tech giant’s efforts to meet this goal by detailing some of the major updates and messages out of Google Cloud Next ’23, with a focus on the company’s efforts to develop telco-specific products and services. For...