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| NTT and Red Hat Fuel AI Analysis Red Hat announced that as part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network initiative, NTT Corporation and Red Hat in collaboration with NVIDIA and Fujitsu, have jointly developed a solution to enhance and extend the potential for real-time artificial intelligence data analysis at the edge. Using technologies developed by the IOWN Global Forum and built on the foundation of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. |
| CalypsoAI Partners with Deloitte CalypsoAI announced it has partnered with Deloitte Middle East to bring the power of its enterprise-grade AI security and enablement platform, Moderator, to regional organizations looking to take advantage of generative AI tools. The partnership will provide enterprises located in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and other countries with access to CalypsoAI's best-in-class platform and Deloitte's consulting services to offer customized AI security solutions. |
| Norfolk Southern and RapidSOS Unveil Rail Safety Solution RapidSOS and Norfolk Southern announced their rail safety solution. The partnership aims to further the availability of critical information for first responders in rare significant incidents. |
| Boldyn Networks Acquires Cellnex Private Networks Business Boldyn Networks announced the close of its acquisition of Cellnex's private networks business unit. This largely includes Edzcom, a Finnish pioneer and European market leader that designs, builds, and operates private 4G and 5G networks across enterprise customers in the manufacturing, transport hubs, oil and gas, energy generation, and mining industries. |
| Ericsson and TIM Brazil Enable Cloud-Native 5G User Data Base Ericsson and TIM Brazil announced that they have achieved a significant milestone with the successful implementation in live network of cloud native user data base in its 5G Core network, powered by Red Hat OpenShift, a hybrid cloud application platform. The initiative defines a major step in TIM’s 5G evolution, paving the way for a new standard in operational efficiency and service agility in the telecommunications industry. |
| Segra Implements ServiceNow Segra announced they have selected ServiceNow as the platform for its digital business transformation. Segra will use ServiceNow Telecommunications Service Management to power SegraOne for Case and Incident Management, a new solution that will simplify everyday work and transform customer service and employee experiences. |
| Ericsson and Turk Telekom Research 6G Ericsson and Turk Telekom announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, Spain to strategically cooperate on exploring the 6G ecosystem and its application areas. |
| Nokia and Telecom Argentina Collaborate Nokia and Telecom Argentina announced a collaboration agreement in which Nokia’s Network as Code with developer portal will enable new developer-created use cases for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers in Latin America markets. The agreement will help foster the GSMA’s Open Gateway ecosystem for network operations in Latin America. |
| Telstra Trials Adtran FSP 150 Adtran announced that Telstra has successfully trialed its FSP 150 edge compute device, opening the door to enhanced network services for business customers across Australia. By incorporating Red Hat’s OpenShift software directly onto Adtran’s hosting platform, Telstra succeeded in facilitating the efficient management and operation of small applications right at the device edge. |
| FCC and UK ICO Strengthen Partnership The Federal Communications Commission and the Information Commissioner’s Office of the United Kingdom announced a formal partnership to cooperate on enforcement matters related to unlawful robocalls and robotexts as well as efforts to protect consumers’ privacy and sensitive data. Both agencies also serve as Executive Members of the global Unsolicited Communications Enforcement Network. |
| Huawei Launches Four Net5.5G Intelligent Cloud-Network Solutions Huawei announced the launch of four Net5.5G Intelligent Cloud-Network solutions at the IP Club Carnival at Mobile World Congress 2024. These new solutions are purpose-built for the intelligent era and ideal for all industries to accelerate intelligent transformation and maximize digital productivity. As pointed out by Leon Wang, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, network quality affects the quality of digital services. |
| ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA Release New Open-Access LLMs ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA announced the release of StarCoder2, a family of open access large language models for code generation that sets new standards for performance, transparency, and cost effectiveness. StarCoder2 was developed by the BigCode community, stewarded by ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, and Hugging Face. |
| IBM Announces Availability of Open-Source Mistral AI Model on watsonx IBM announced the availability of the popular open-source Mixtral-8x7B large language model, developed by Mistral AI, on its watsonx AI and data platform, as it continues to expand capabilities to help clients innovate with IBM's own foundation models and those from a range of open-source providers. |
| Ericsson and MTN Group Announce MoU at MWC 2024 Ericsson and MTN Group announced a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at advancing sustainability, digital skills, and education across Africa. The announcement was made at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, Spain. This partnership underscores both companies' dedication to driving positive change across the continent. Under the MoU, Ericsson and MTN Group will collaborate on sustainability initiatives in line with principles of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 17. |
| Citymesh Selects Nokia Core SaaS Nokia announced that Citymesh has chosen Nokia’s Core Software-as-a-Service as part of the Belgian operator’s strategic aim of delivering greater service innovation to its customers, and realizing greater business agility and faster time to value in monetizing its network assets. |
| VIAVI Adds Critical Traffic Visibility to Observer Sentry VIAVI announced the addition of traffic analysis capabilities to its Observer Sentry Software-as-a-Service-based threat exposure management solution. With traffic visibility, Observer Sentry goes beyond identifying unintended and potentially dangerous exposures, and enables SecOps, DevOps and cloud architects to determine if a vulnerability has been exploited. |
| Adtran Connects Remote Tribal Communities Adtran announced that Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. is harnessing its fiber access solution to bring high-speed connectivity to rural tribal communities in New Mexico. Supported by a mix of loans and grant funds, MATI’s new infrastructure is the first full FTTH XGS-PON network to be built among any tribal nation. Part of the Broadband Infrastructure Deployment initiative, the solution will deliver symmetrical Gigabit services to the Mescalero Apache reservation. |
| Aureon Launches Channel Partner Program Aureon announced its channel partner program aimed at independent telephone companies, confirming its commitment and ability to deliver significant advancements in network solutions through strategic collaboration. |
| APDCAT Warns MWC Attendees on Uses of Biometric Data The Catalan Data Protection Authority announced the need to limit the use of biometric data, such as the iris of the eye, due to the significant risks associated with it. In the talk 'Biometric data: a new paradigm for privacy', the Head of the Legal Advise, Xavier Urios, recalled that the iris or fingerprint are personal data that allow the unequivocal identification of the person, based on a physical characteristic that does not change throughout life. |
| Red Hat Collaborates with stc Group to Deploy New Edge and 5G Red Hat announced it is collaborating with stc Group to achieve faster development, delivery and innovation of services by harnessing automation and cloud-native agility. With Red Hat OpenShift, Cisco system integration and Cisco Network Services Orchestrator, stc is now able to host multiple cloud-native network functions from various ecosystem vendors with automated deployment and operations. |
| Viettel Unveils 5G Chipset and Human AI Viettel announced its 5G chipset and Vi An, AI Human at Mobile World Congress 2024. These are 2 out of the 17 products representing Viettel's technological ecosystem showcased at MWC Barcelona 2024, the world's largest annual and most influential connectivity event. This marks the 7th time Viettel has participated in the conference as the only technology representative from Vietnam. |
| Telefonica and TikTok Join Forces to Improve User Security Telefonica and TikTok announced their strategic partnership to work together on Open Gateway. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress, which kicked off today in Barcelona and runs until Thursday 29 February. Open Gateway is an industry initiative launched by the GSMA just over a year ago at MWC 2023. It aims to unlock the potential of telecom network capabilities in an interoperable, intuitive and programmable way through open and standardised APIs. |
| ZTE Launches World First 5G+AI Eyewear-Free 3D Tablet ZTE announced the world's first 5G and AI eyewear-free 3D tablet, nubia Pad 3D II at Mobile World Congress 2024. This remarkable device provides consumers with a truly immersive eyewear-free 3D experience, and continues to bring pioneering 3D solutions for various industries, adapting to differentiated scenarios through groundbreaking technological advancements and deep integration of 5G+AI. |
| MYCOM OSI announces Gen AI Assistant MYCOM OSI announced a new generative artificial intelligence based expert application concept. Experience Assurance and Analytics GenAie offers natural language based real-time advice and predictive insights, democratizing network data for the CSP's business and operations users to gain insights for enhanced customer experience, higher operational efficiency, and data monetization. |
| AT&T Switches on Ericsson Cloud RAN AT&T and Ericsson announced that they have begun deploying Ericsson Cloud RAN technology on AT&T’s commercial 5G network. The two companies have completed a Cloud RAN call as a milestone in deploying Open RAN. AT&T now has commercial traffic flowing on Cloud RAN sites, the first ones of which are located south of Dallas, Texas. |
