NEC teams up with Red Hat to deliver cloud native 5G solutions
The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.
The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.
With 5G deployments still in their early days, to many, it may seem too soon to be talking about 6G. But given the development of 5G began in 2010, now is the time for the telecoms industry to begin turning its attention to the next G.
Deutsche Telekom has proven that frequency bands beyond 100 GHz can be just as effective as lower bands for high-speed mobile backhaul.
It’s all about geopolitics this week as Iain and Scott enjoy their good fortune at the telecoms industry being such a strategic focus these days. They start with an update on the global semiconductor industry, which is feeling the strain from the trade war between the US and China. The nascent 6G standard is then discussed in the context of similar Balkanising pressures before they conclude with a review of US political posturing over social media censorship.
The Next G Alliance has picked execs from AT&T and Ericsson to be its Chair and Vice Chair, respectively.
Research published by mobile security specialist AdaptiveMobile claims all the extra complexity created by network slicing leads to new vulnerabilities.
Electronics giant Samsung has teamed up with embedded chip specialist to make a new system-on-chip for 5G radios.
Work has started in earnest on 6G. Various bodies opine on what it should be – and broadly seem to conclude it is basically the same vision as 5G, but even bigger and better, if that is possible.
With the many different forces in play it’s very difficult to accurately project where the equilibrium of the US-China dynamic in the technology and telecoms sectors will go under the Biden administration, or if there will ever be an equilibrium at all.
Observers and practitioners take it on the chin to predict what the telecoms industry may look like in the coming year.
In the final pod of a remarkable year the guys get straight into appropriately dystopian subject matter. They start by looking at plans for 6G to create a hive mind that anticipates your every need, before moving on to mulling how sensible it is to move all your technology into the public cloud and concluding with the US government’s absurd attempt to sue Facebook for being too successful.
Hexa-X envisages 6G as a network of networks, connecting everything with a generous dose of AI, and Nokia has been put in charge of it.
Turns out the lockdown is a bit more chilled this time, so no Zoom pod, you’ll be pleased to hear. Iain and Scott start by looking at the state of 6G, such as it is, and the reasons it’s already being spoken about. That leads on to discussion of some of the antitrust heat being experienced by US tech giants before they conclude with the traditional update on the Huawei saga.
It may still be the early days of 5G, with the first commercial networks going live less than two years ago, but certain quarters of the telecoms industry, especially those in academia and R&D, have already begun casting their eyes to the world beyond 5G. This Telecoms.com Intelligence monthly briefing, the final issue in its current format, examines these visions to see where consensus has already developed and where the jury is still out.
The guys brave pestilent London once more, in their quest for podcasting perfection. The UK decision to ban Huawei from its 5G networks made that the unavoidable lead topic, before our intrepid podders move on to pontificate about 6G and conclude by considering the implications of a European Court ruling in the transfer of data to the US.
We might still be in the early days of 5G network deployment, but attention has already been afforded to 6G, with Samsung suggesting terahertz (THz) spectrum bands are critical.
This week’s pod starts with the exciting news that you can now access it on Spotify too. The guys start with a look at the increasingly politicised US 5G ecosystem, with even 6G now designated a matter of national strategic importance. They move on to the Balkanisation of the semiconductor industry prompted by US sanctions and conclude with a look at disruption in the podcast world following Spotify’s poaching of the Joe Rogan Experience.
Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.
The US Attorney General has been banging on about 5G, hot on the heels of demands the country wins at 6G too.
Chinese kit vendor ZTE has decided now is a good time to announce it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement on 6G with operator China Unicom.
China has a moan about Indian 5G ban https://t.co/cm04lJrY3p #5G #China
07 May 2021 @ 11:14:04 UTC
India 5G licensing on the back burner https://t.co/HB6NZGGLfP #5G #Regulation
07 May 2021 @ 10:28:02 UTC
Ericsson and Samsung patent war ends in a boring truce https://t.co/jpXocQlyRk #Law #Ericsson
07 May 2021 @ 09:37:02 UTC
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