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.
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Microsoft doubles down on the telco cloud with Metaswitch acquisition
Don’t say you weren’t warned, telecoms industry. The tech big guns are trained on your home turf and they’re not afraid to splash the cash.
Microsoft buys into NFV with Affirmed Networks acquisition
US software giant Microsoft has made one its most aggressive moves into the telecoms sector with the acquisition of virtualization specialist Affirmed Networks.
Nokia makes its network functions available on AWS
Nokia’s Common Software Foundation platform now supports Amazon Web Services, which should make them easier to buy and use.
Ericsson soups up its 5G software
Kit vendor Ericsson has released some new software designed to help operators with their move so standalone 5G NR when they eventually get around to it.
Ericsson and Intel partner for 5G cloud platform
Ericsson and Intel have announced a new partnership which is aimed at aligning the Swedes efforts for software-defined infrastructure with Intel’s Rack Scale Design.
Red Hat gives thanks for Turkcell virtualization win
Turkish operator Turkcell has launched a virtualization platform called Unified Telco Cloud that’s based on Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform.
75% of the telecoms industry think 2019 will be a great year
Three quarters of the respondents to the latest Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey feel positive or fantastic about the industry’s prospects in the new year.
ETSI publishes new spec and reports on 5G tech
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI, released a new specification on packet formatting and forwarding and two reports on transport and network slicing respectively.
Ericsson gets multinational 5G core network win with Telenor
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has got a nice lot of fresh 5G work from Swedish operator group Telenor.
Nokia gets a bunch more cash from Chinese operators
Nokia is so keen for everyone to know how well it’s doing in China that is it makes an announcement every time it wins some business.
IBM aims to boost its strategic imperatives with $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat
IBM has announced by far the largest acquisition in its history with the acquisition of cloud and open source software vendor Red Hat.
BBWF 2018: Consumers don’t care about tech, just connectivity – BT
Today’s consumer is demanding but disinterested. They don’t care about mobile or broadband or wifi, just top-line connectivity. To meet these demands, BT has pointed to network convergence.
US Senators hit out at India’s pro-privacy and localisation laws
Two US Senators have signed a letter addressed to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting new rules to tighten up data practices in the country could lead to a weakened trade relationship with the US.
Nokia plugs openness ahead of Broadband World Forum
Open is one of 2018’s buzzwords and Nokia is cashing in on the bonanza ahead of Broadband World Forum in a couple of weeks.
Microsoft looks to take Xbox experience onto mobile
Microsoft has announced the launch of Project xCloud to take the world of Xbox gaming onto mobile.
Samsung looks to reverse mid-year dip with Q3 numbers
Q2 wasn’t exactly a party for Samsung, though it seems ready to correct the dip at the first possible opportunity.
Amazon, Supermicro and Apple call BS on Chinese spying sting – someone is lying
Amazon, Supermicro and Apple have released statements denying they have ever found any malicious microchips on their hardware calling into questions the validity of Chinese espionage claims.
Banning us could hand China victory in the 5G race – Huawei
Reading between the lines, Huawei is asking the US a new question; banning us will make deployment slower and more expensive, so how will that help in the 5G race against China?
Sprint asks under-threat employees to support redundancies
In a move which perhaps indicates the Sprint/T-Mobile team is starting to get nervous, Sprint CEO Michel Combes is rousing employee support for the very merger which could potentially make them redundant.
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