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SK Telecom tested SA 5G transmission on a multi-vendor network SK Telecom expects to start offering standalone (SA) 5G services in Korea in the first half of 2020, the telco said in a statement. The carrier said it successfully accomplished what it claims to be the...

Channel coding is used to correct transmission errors caused by noise, interference and poor signal strength U.K. tech company AccelerComm has been focused on helping 5G achieve its latency claims by providing low-density parity-check (LDPC), polar and turbo Forward Error Correction solutions that address the...

  The Chinese government has instructed all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within the next three years, The Financial Times reported. The decision by Beijing would certainly impact U.S. firms including Microsoft, Dell and HP, according to the report. The...

Disaggregation of hardware and software is "a major advancement for operators" Formed in 2016 as an engineering-focused, collaborative methodology for building and deploying global telecom network infrastructure, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has landed some important members of the global telecom world including T-Mobile, SK...

Department of Commerce tallies 260 Huawei license requests U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government would soon start to issue the first licenses for U.S firms looking to sell components and software to Chinese vendor Huawei, according Bloomberg. Ross said that the U.S....

  Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is in early-stage negotiations with a number of U.S. telecommunications firm regarding the potential licensing of its 5G technology to them, Reuters reported, citing a company executive. Vincent Pang, SVP and board director at Huawei, confirmed that some firms in the...

In the 1990s, agile software development profoundly transformed software development. Agile is far more than a process; it’s a new way to work. Today, a similar transformation is happening in test and measurement: TestOps. Learn about TestOps and how to accelerate your product development...

  Nokia opened a 5G lab at its global headquarters in Espoo, Finland, with the aim of enabling customers to experience the vendor’s portfolio of 5G equipment, software and services. The 5G Future X Lab will enable communications service providers, enterprises and infrastructure providers to see...

iconectiv's VNF information service is included in ONAP's latest mobile network specifications  The latest release of international specifications to help build future software-based mobile networks has been published by the Linux Foundation in the latest version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), and includes information services company iconectiv’s open source APIs...

The acquisition gives Extreme Networks an edge in cloud management and Wi-Fi 6 In some ways, software-driven networking company Extreme Networks’ path to acquiring Aerohive Networks, a cloud-management networking company, began four years ago. That was when Extreme began assessing where its strengths and weakness were, Norman...

  U.S. companies could be allowed to resume shipments of components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei in approximately two weeks, Reuters reported, citing a representative for a U.S. manufacturer. According to the report, the representative was told by a senior U.S. government official that licenses...

  U.S Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government will issue licenses to local companies seeking to sell components to Chinese vendor Huawei where there is no threat to national security, Reuters reported. Speaking at a conference in Washington D.C, Ross affirmed that the...

Wi-Fi provider Extreme Networks is buying Aerohive for $210 million, bringing some consolidation to the Wi-Fi market as the industry starts to ramp toward Wi-Fi 6 adoption and bolstering the company's addressable market with software-defined wide area networking capabilities and a subscription-service-oriented strategy. Extreme will...

  An export ban recently imposed by the U.S. government on Huawei will not have a huge impact in the company’s capacity to serve customers, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei said during an interview with Chinese media. “We will certainly be able to continue serving our customers....

  The Chinese vendor said customers will be able to have access to the source code of its products BARCELONA--ZTE plans to open three labs during 2019, with the aim of allowing customers to have access to the source code of the vendor’s products, ZTE’s Chief...

As enterprises seek to modernize and digitalize their operations, application and cloud integration issues are costing about half of large enterprises between $250,000-$500,000 per year, according to a new survey -- and 4% of respondents reported that poor integration costs their business as much...

  Bsquare selected AWS as it preferred cloud services provider for its DataV suite   Industrial internet of things company Bsquare says it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to meet the increasing demand for IIoT solutions. Bsquare has selected AWS as its preferred cloud services provider and...

  SAP and Software AG said they have developed the new smart city platform in compliance with the standards of the EU’s open urban platform initiative   German software companies SAP and Software AG announced a cooperation agreement for the development of an open smart city platform. The...

AID expects to launch fully autonomous vehicles in 2021 U.S. company Luminar announced its collaboration with Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) to provide the LiDAR technology and accelerate plans towards AID’s first fully autonomous deployments in 2021. AID, a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG, is the...

  O2’s CEO Mark Evans would meet with Ericsson’s executives this week to negotiate a compensation package which could reach up to $126 million U.K. telecom operator O2 could receive compensation of up to £100 million ($125 million) from Swedish vendor Ericsson following a network outage...

Editor's note: Click here for part 1of this three-part series on blockchain technology in the telecom industry. Blockchain applications in the telecom industry `1. Blockchain in fraud management Revenue leakages and frauds are the results of the porosity of the traditional ecosystems, fraud loss was estimated close...

Jaguar Land Rover recently opened a new software, IT and engineering center in Manchester to support its connected technologies strategy   Jaguar Land Rover announced that it is currently testing a fleet of connected cars on U.K. roads. Road infrastructure and vehicles, including Discovery Sports, Range Rovers...

The next generation of Wi-Fi security is now available, with a new certification program for Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 just launched by Wi-Fi Alliance. Here is a basic introduction to WPA3, in a Q&A with answers provided by Wi-Fi Alliance. Answers have been condensed and...

Honeywell's new Vector Space Sense allows building operations team to make better-informed real estate and space usage decisions Honeywell has launched a new software solution today provides visibility into how building spaces are being used. The new Honeywell Vector Space Sense allows building operations teams to make...