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Qualcomm CEO at MWC Barcelona: ‘Mobile technology is literally going everywhere’

As it continues to focus on addressable market growth as a function of moving core mobile expertise into high-value adjacencies, Qualcomm dropped a massive amount of news—16 press releases, in fact—as CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud adds Google Cloud support

Microsoft Defender for Cloud has added Google Cloud to its Cloud Security Posture Management support, after adding AWS in 2021.

HPE intros private 5G with home-made core and third-party RAN (Airspan to start)

Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new private LTE and 5G system for serious-minded enterprise usage, including in the prized...

Microsoft, Linux Foundation, others join Carbon Call

Microsoft, The Linux Foundation and others are calling for reliable and consistent measurement of greenhouse gas emissions.

Here’s why QUIC is still worrying mobile operators (Reader Forum)

Google’s QUIC made its debut a few years ago and it quickly became a headache for operators. Why? QUIC is an encryption-based protocol and many types of traffic become invisible. Operators struggled to deliver content and manage subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE). Fast forward to...

Microsoft highlights Cloud results in Q2 earnings

Microsoft spotlighted Cloud results in its Q2 earnings report. Revenue grew 32% to $22.1 billion, despite slowing Azure growth.

‘Some telcos are cognizant’ – Red Hat on the hyperscaler game at the edge

Lord knows what Red Hat does, exactly, if you’ll excuse the language, but Christ knows it is good to talk to. And clearly, on the interplay between cellular networking and cloud computing at the enterprise edge, it should be listened to – as the...

Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard to secure lead in gaming and the metaverse

Microsoft is buying game publishing giant Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, the largest deal in gaming history. The deal will substantially further the cloud company’s position in the competitive gaming industry, as well as strengthen its role in the emerging metaverse market. Activision is...

Talk of a metaverse would not be happening without 5G and MEC (Verizon on 2022)

Each year advancements in wireless network technology transform the way businesses use and benefit from mobile capabilities. 5G offers super-fast speeds, low latency and massive capacity. Mobile edge computing brings compute and storage services to the edge of a wireless network. The combination of...

The Sunday Brief: CES preview 2022—TV’s future

Holiday greetings from Colorado, Kansas (via I-70), and Missouri where we celebrated a white Christmas on the slopes (pictured) and also blazed a few new trails on my in-law’s Missouri farm (picture at the end of the Brief).  Lots of windshield and outdoor time...

‘The real risk is we don’t partner’ – cloud-cos, telcos and the free-for-all in the 5G house

Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge – and how they are Collaborating and Competing with Mobile Operators at the Industrial Edge. The report is free to download, and available here – or...

Hyperscalers and private 5G – the good, the bad, and the complicated (ABI on 2022)

Hyperscalers have been strengthening their telco ambitions in 2021, culminating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) launching its own private 5G solution this month (December). The AWS model for private 5G is consumption-based with pricing determined by coverage area and bandwidth. While the solution immediately...

Verizon strikes deal with Google Cloud to complete the 5G-MEC set in the US

Verizon and Google Cloud have confirmed a partnership on 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC). Verizon said it is the first US operator to offer “5G mobile edge computing” with “all” of the major cloud providers. It is working with Microsoft Azure at the...

‘It’s the Android model’ – Google Cloud on how it will remake the 5G edge with carriers

Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report, called The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge. To read the full article – including about Google Cloud’s go-to-market strategy with operators, the breakdown of use cases across the cloud-edge, and...

IoT is easier than ever, and on the verge of greatness, at last (TTI on 2022)

There is a change in the IoT industry, and it has to do with the convergence of two other big developments. The first is the ongoing adoption of the cloud; the second is the rise of the enterprise developer using low-code/no-code software. Combined, these...

Microsoft adds Rigetti quantum computers to Azure Quantum service

Rigetti's quantum computers are coming to Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem and marketplace in the first part of 2022.

Hyperscalers and telcos at the industrial edge – a royal couple or a battle royale?

The kaleidoscope has been shaken, and the pieces are in flux; it is a quote from when British politics was supposed to change forever. But it captures very well an even more seismic upheaval, which promises indelible change for global industry – and will...

‘Platform-company’ Vodafone signs five-year 5G and IoT edge-deal with Microsoft

Vodafone Business and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal on private 5G, edge computing, and IoT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The arrangement, extending a long-running partnership between the two, will see Vodafone Business sell the Microsoft suite of compute and storage functions,...

‘Telcos should know by now they’re not the only ones’ – analysts on AWS Private 5G

Short of detail, high on intrigue; the news from AWS this week that it will launch its own private 5G offer, pulling together telco parts from anonymous partners as a new-age plug-and-play enterprise networking system, has caused great excitement within the telecoms market. But...

Just what are you up to, Mr Hyperscaler? Unpacking AWS’s private 5G thunderbolt

That headline; is it a thunderbolt, really, this private 5G package from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? No, because nothing in it is a surprise. We know AWS is serious about 5G, even if it views it as another application, albeit a functional one, for...

More on AWS Private 5G – branded to begin, partners to join, carriers included (sort of)

So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...

AWS rolls network, compute, devices into one-stop managed private 5G service

Big news in the excitable private 5G universe; Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its own private 5G service, AWS Private 5G, incorporating small cell radio access network (RAN) units, core and RAN software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), plus sundry edge servers...

Public MEC vs. private MEC or both?: Verizon taking two-pronged approach

Verizon has partnered with AWS and Microsoft on delivering MEC services Verizon is all in on both public and private MEC and has a range of partnerships in place with the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as companies focused on applications. But...

Microsoft, AT&T soft-launch Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta

AT&T and Microsoft have soft-launched an Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta, Georgia. The companies will next expand to Dallas and other U.S. metros.