Bharti Airtel, one of India’s integrated telcos, has selected IBM and Red Hat to build its new telco network cloud, designed to make it more efficient, flexible and future-ready to support core operations and enable new digital services. Under the agreement, Airtel will build its next generation core network, analytical tools and new consumer and enterprise services on top of this cloud platform based on open standards. (more…)
May 12, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of IoT Now, turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT. (more…)
May 11, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Cellular networks will be the communication backbone for billions of mobile devices and machines connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). At the core of this development is the embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM), which securely connects devices to networks. To shape this development, Infineon Technologies AG is launching a comprehensive turnkey eSIM solution for the plethora of IoT devices and applications. (more…)
May 8, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
We take a look at the Internet of Things business and Digital Transformation. George Malim examines what’s behind the news that NTT DoCoMo has binned all further work using Narrowband-IoT. Matt Hatton busts some Internet of Things myths. And Jeremy Cowan asks them both to describe how everyone’s business landscape will change after COVID-19. Plus what made us laugh in tech lately. Because Life’s already serious enough. (more…)
May 6, 2020
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Samsung Electronics has announced a demonstration of the first video call on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform using Mission Critical Push-to-Talk, Data and Video (MCPTX, also known as Mission Critical Communications), a communications capability developed for first responders. It was enabled by the successful onboarding, integration and deployment on AWS cloud. This implementation was based on 3GPP Release 14 specifications.
April 9, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Napatech, a provider of reconfigurable computing platforms, announced the release of its Link-Virtualisation software for its family of SmartNICs. The software solution extends Napatech’s position as the global vendor for FPGA-based SmartNICs, with the highest performance and most feature-rich virtual switching solution for programmable SmartNICs based on FPGAs. The solution delivers a massive increase in network performance and simultaneous reduction in server CPU utilisation, allowing data centre operators to fulfill their vision for software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV). (more…)
April 1, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Nokia’s board of directors has appointed Pekka Lundmark as president and chief executive officer of Nokia. Lundmark is expected to start in his new role on September 1, 2020. (more…)
March 2, 2020
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Infovista, a specialist in modern network performance, has announced a new product in its automation platform, which allows network operators to efficiently run large scale ‘what-if scenarios’ for strategic network planning. (more…)
February 25, 2020
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Two organisations are sharing a platform as well as research & development (R&D) in a bid to improve the reliability and performance of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Altran, a global provider of engineering and R&D services, and 5TONIC, an open research and innovation laboratory of which Altran is a member, announced they are collaborating on 5G mobile projects. (more…)
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
In line with the continued growth and evolution of the global SIM industry, SIMalliance has opened up its membership beyond traditional SIM vendors in order to extend the scope of its work. The new-look organisation aims to address both established and emerging SIM technologies and engage new industry participants. The move has led SIMalliance to change its name to the Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA). (more…)
February 18, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello