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Huawei Digital Transformation Practice Center: New model, New Capability, New Outcome

  Huawei has established an Open Roads Community (OPRC) with leading operators and industry researchers who have a common vision and goal in digital transformation. The OPRC has been established to carry out innovation and development research with digital transformation as the core. At the same...

Intelligent Wireless Network Solution

  We are entering a new intelligent era. Under the development of new technologies like AI, cloud computing, big data, 5G and Internet of Things, we will truly realize the Intelligent Connection of Everything. In previous industrial revolutions, people have liberated their physical strength. In the...

How ZTE’s Common Core will help telcos to evolve from existing networks to 5G

  ZTE’s Common Core is already helping mobile operators globally to evolve from existing networks to target 5G networks, Jason Tu, principle scientist of NFV/SDN products for ZTE, told RCR Wireless News. Commenting on the main features of ZTE Common Core and how this technology can...

Google, LG Electronics ink agreement to target smart city projects

  Google will apply IoT, big data and AI to the targeted smart city initiatives   Google has signed an agreement with South Korean firm LG Electronics to focus on the development of smart cities powered by the internet of things, big data, and artificial intelligence, Korean...

The next-gen telco evolution is happening at the edge (Reader Forum)

The future of telecommunications is just as important today as it was when the telephone revolutionized the world. The industry is undergoing a drastic transformation as continued trends toward cloud adoption, mobile communication and big data analytics are driving demand for high-capacity and low-latency...

Orange Poland trialed cloud RAN with Nokia

RAN is part of larger 5G, cloud strategy Orange Poland is continuing with its 5G strategy most recently by working with network infrastructure vendor Nokia to test out a cloud-based radio access network. The cloud RAN trial, which ran from March to May, saw radio...

The advantage of running a telco ranch vs. a wireless pet store (Reader Forum)

With the transformation from hardware-centric networks to networked cloud platforms, the relationship between telecommunications companies (telcos) and their server(s) is inherently changing. Cloud computing introduced a software design paradigm that required a change in the ways enterprise and telco approach operations, and with it...

3 strategic imperatives for winning the secure cloud transition (Reader Forum)

Networking and security IT infrastructures have evolved to a level of complexity unmanageable by operators and enterprises using a conventional approach. The ongoing reliance upon legacy network hardware and disjointed WAN architectures inhibit the operational agility required by global organizations looking to digitize business...

State of the Network: Hybrid IT poses challenges for visibility, assurance

Trends include growing dependence on remote access, increased bandwidth demand and difficulty in troubleshooting Enterprise IT teams face substantial challenges in successfully managing hybrid networks, according to Viavi Solutions's newly released 2018 State of the Network report. For the second year in a row, IT...

Siemens in major IIoT pact with Alibaba to serve China’s industrial transformation

Siemens and Alibaba have struck a deal to “foster” new growth in the industrial ‘internet of things’ (IIoT) market in China, the pair have announced. The deal will see Siemens’ MindSphere IoT platform made available on Alibaba Cloud in 2019, to enable enterprises in...

The IIoT intervew: “Edge computing is the death of the cloud as we know it,” says IIC

Where is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and analytics techniques to bring new intelligence to their systems and processes. It is the...

Technical challenges behind real-time traffic management for smart cities (Reader Forum)

As many of us routinely trapped in rush hour backups can attest, traffic congestion can be incredibly frustrating. But beyond the annoyance, a study from INRIX estimates that congestion costs drivers in the United States several billions of dollars a year in lost time...

ETSI’s more mature OSM Release 4.0 now available

ETSI's Open Source MANO (OSM) release 4.0 is lighter weight, more mature The European Telecommunications Standards Institute responsible for European Union telecom standards, announced Release 4 of its Open Source MANO (management and orchestration) standard last week. ETSI is billing OSM 4.0 as a lighter,...

IBM launches innovation center in Abu Dhabi

IBM’s new facility will focus on IoT, AI, blockchain and quantum computing   IBM has launched a new innovation center in Abu Dhabi which will mainly focus on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, blockchain, security, analytics, internet of things and quantum computing. IBM’s Innovation...

ABB and HPE intro micro-modular data centre for IIoT edge computing

Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB has partnered with US IT software provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and German IT hardware maker Rittal to launch a new micro-modular data centre to handle data processing at the network edge in smart factory environments. The new ‘secure edge data...

Huawei launches 5G platform with cloud capabilities

5G SingleRAN Pro platforms supports 5G deployments as well as previous technologies, Huawei said Chinese vendor Huawei has launched its 5G SingleRAN Pro, which combines 5G, 4G, 3G, and 2G capabilities across a single network. The company said that the new solution features an automatic intelligent...

Microsoft intros triple lock to secure IoT devices at the network edge

Microsoft has announced a new platform to secure ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices. Dubbed Azure Sphere, it layers in three levels of enhanced IoT security, in its chip, operating system (OS) and cloud. Most significantly, Microsoft has introduced a new “cross-over class” of chip, or...

Oracle SVP: Network is enabler for service provider profitability

Service providers can leverage network and acquisition to create new business models and revenue streams NEW YORK--Citing World Economic Forum numbers, Douglas Suriano, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications, said digital transformation represents a $10 trillion economic opportunity for service providers and...

China Mobile to use Nokia equipment for optical transport network

China Mobile to leverage Nokia equipment to build optical transport network China Mobile has chosen Nokia to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network. An optical transport network serves as a protocol for forwarding network messaging across optical fiber networks. It consists of a collection...

Evolving the network core symbiotically with the cloud (Reality Check)

  It has been a decade or so since society began to discover the many benefits of the cloud. Since then, online services have changed our lives: how we communicate with others, how we entertain ourselves, how we do business and run the infrastructure that...

Microsoft to invest $5 billion to advance IoT

Microsoft promises to pump $5 billion into the IoT and edge computing Microsoft recently unveiled plans to invest $5 billion in the internet of things (IoT) over the next four years. The announcement was made by Corporate Vice President of Azure Julia White in a company...

Aryaka enters China’s SD-WAN market under China Mobile partnership

Aryaka lands deal with China Mobile Aryaka announced a partnership with China Mobile International (CMI) to deliver what the company claims to be the first compliant global SD-WAN service for international companies with locations in China, and Chinese companies with a global presence. Under the agreement,...

Cisco to test 5G in rural parts of the U.K.

Cisco will provide networking expertise for 5G RuralFirst project will create an end-to-end testbed system to test Cisco announced it will lead a project to create a complete end-to-end rural 5G testbed system for trials of new wireless and networking technologies and services in the...

Ericsson focuses on regional carriers with cloud solution

LAS VEGAS--Four regional carriers in the U.S. are working with Ericsson to realize the cost and performance benefits associated with moving network operations management to the network infrastructure vendor's cloud-based solution. The launch partners for Ericsson's Network Management as a Service are Chariton Valley,...