Ericsson moves to further embrace open standards
Kit vendor Ericsson has released a salvo of Open Ran and Cloud RAN related announcements in quick succession, one involving a collaboration with Spanish operator Telefónica.
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Category: Virtualization
Building the World’s Largest NFV Network and Evolving Towards the Next Golden Decade
With NFV quietly but decisively changing the telecommunications landscape, China Mobile has recognized its potential. Taking center stage at MWC Shanghai, China’s largest wireless carrier showcased a decade of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) breakthroughs.
VMO2 adds Nokia to its cloud RAN roster
Virgin Media O2 has extended its RAN deal with Nokia as part of an ongoing overhaul of its mobile networks.
Cloud security market continues to grow
Dell’Oro Group says the traditional approach of deploying hardware ‘just doesn’t cut it anymore’, as the market for virtual and SaaS network security clocks its twentieth consecutive quarter of growth.
Softbank and Nvidia make further progress with vRAN acceleration
Japanese telco Softbank this week served up more evidence of how graphic processing units (GPUs) can do some of the heavy lifting in virtualised radio access networks (vRAN).
AWS joins other hyperscalers at TM Forum
Amazon Web Services (AWS) appears to be ramping up its efforts to convince more telcos that public cloud is the future of telecoms networking.
BT trials some Cloud RAN in Leeds
UK telecoms group BT has set up a Cloud RAN trial in Leeds which will ‘serve as a proof of concept for future developments.’
Ericsson gains cloud RAN traction with Telstra and Verizon
Telstra has become the latest telco to sing the praises of virtualised RAN infrastructure.
Overcoming the challenges telcos face on their journey to containerized network functions
The benefits of cloud-native are driving telcos to implement network functions as containerized workloads.
Telecoms professionals see low latency and standalone as the future of 5G
According to Telecoms.com’s latest survey report, 5G’s most significant capability three years from now will be URLLC, underpinned by standalone.
Vodafone and Google’s new mega AI is the best of big tech and telco collaboration
AI Booster can handle thousands of machine learning tasks a day and will ‘have a considerable impact on people’s roles, learning, and ways of working’ at UK operator Vodafone.
The telecoms industry has an innovation problem – Rakuten
A ‘legacy way of thinking’ is stifling innovation in the telcoms industry, and operators will need to adopt new business models in order to not be relegated to utility providers, claims Rakuten.
AWS continues to expand on multiple fronts
Amazon will launch new AWS Local Zones into 32 metropolitan areas in 26 countries and has teamed up with Salesforce to create a new streaming platform.
Vodafone recruits Oracle cloud platform to bolster 5G core
UK operator Vodafone has signed to deal with enterprise tech giant Oracle to implement its cloud native network policy management platform into its 5G core.
Telenor dives further into the public cloud with new AWS deal
Norwegian telecoms group Telenor has signed a new public cloud deal with AWS to help it expand its 5G and edge computing offering.
Telecoms industry remains optimistic despite everything
Seven out ten respondents to the 2021 Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey are largely happy with how this year went and more are expecting a strong 2022.
Intel and Juniper make beautiful music with Rakuten
Two relative RAN outsiders will develop next-gen DU for Rakuten Mobile’s ‘end-to-end’ virtualized mobile proposition abroad.
5G service revenues to hit $73 billion this year – Juniper
Operators have the potential to generate hundreds of billions of dollars per year in revenue from 5G services in the coming years, provided they focus on virtualization in the core.
Rakuten Mobile loss almost doubled in Q2
Operating loss incurred at Japan’s challenger operator increased by 85% in Q2 to reach $900 million, which the company attributed to aggressive investment in network rollout and rising roaming cost.
Rakuten to build mobile network for 1&1
Rakuten announced partnership with 1&1 to build “Europe’s first fully virtualised mobile network” for the German greenfield operator. The company also set up a separate unit to drive global expansion.
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