BROWSING: 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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...

It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...

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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Dish gives up...

China is responsible for 40.3% of global 6G patent filings, followed by the U.S. with 35.2%. Japan with 9.9%, Europe with 8.9% and South Korea with 4.2%, according to a report by Nikkei. Nikkei worked with Tokyo-based research firm Cyber Creative Institute to survey nearly...

Cisco is to provide car-to-trackside wireless connectivity at the first autonomous car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next month. The firm has signed as a sponsor of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) on October 23, a new competition with teams from 21 universities...

Microsoft has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, the marketing and development body for the LoRaWAN  low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standard. Microsoft said LoRaWAN was a “critical connectivity fabric” for its work with digital twins, listing a bunch of customers that have used...

Note, this article is taken from a longer editorial report on private 5G enterprise NOCs; to access the report, click here, or on the image below. For the attendant webinar on the same subject, including panellists from ABI Research, Vodafone, and Radisys, go here. US-based Radisys,...

Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in the Australian agriculture, mining, transport, logistics, and public sector industries. A press statement provided little...

Digital Colony completed acquisition of Boingo Wireless in June Boingo Wireless CTO Derek Peterson has been articulating a message of technology convergence for the better part of a decade. In these (digital) pages, Peterson discussed convergence during CES in 2015 well before the 5G New...

Edge computing offers several benefits for 5G manufacturing, such as lower latency, increased cybersecurity and a better management of data

A new report by analyst house ABI Research says the traditional telco community is restructuring its enterprise operations, including by establishing brand new business units, in order to deliver custom 5G networks for private industrial usage, and to make 2021 a “boon year” for...

Microsoft and NEC are working together to bundle edge and cloud computing, private 5G networking, and IoT and AI capabilities. The pair are cherry picking from each other’s portfolios, and going to market mob-handed to drive digital change among enterprises, they said. The pair have...

As part of the deal, Microsoft will require AT&T’s carrier-grade Network Cloud platform technology AT&T and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership that will see the carrier’s 5G mobile network moved to the Microsoft cloud and provides a path for its traffic to be managed...

    Spanish carrier Telefonica, together with Microsoft, Repsol, Gestamp, Navantia, and Técnicas Reunidas, have joined forces to create IndesIA, the first artificial intelligence (AI) consortium in the Spanish industrial sector. “The Spanish industrial sector currently faces a number of important challenges. The need to become more...

As networks become increasingly complex and costly to operate, communications service providers (CSPs) around the world are looking for ways to efficiently manage their networks. Automation harnessing the power of Artificial intelligence (AI) is a clear choice. But scalability and flexibility of solutions remain...

    U.K. operator O2, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, has announced a new partnership with Microsoft in the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) field, the former said in a release. The carrier said that the proof-of-concept will deploy on-premise MEC capabilities within a private 5G network. Under the...

Mars is working with Microsoft and Accenture to bring new IoT and AI solutions to its manufacturing and supply-chain operations. The work is part of an expanded deal with Microsoft around its Azure cloud and analytics services, geared to drive digital change at the...