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| Dell'Oro Group Releases Broadband Access 5-Year Forecast Report According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, investments in cable infrastructure is projected to reach $2 billion by 2023. Distributed, virtualized architectures are set to transform the cable broadband networks. |
| New VIAVI Report Captures Pace of Worldwide 5G Rollouts Viavi Solutions Inc. today revealed new industry data demonstrating just how quickly 5G networks are rolling out worldwide, with 55 commercial 5G networks expected to be live before the start of 2020, the year that 5G was originally expected to debut. |
| FCC Takes on Illegal Robocalls in New Report Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today announced the release of the agency’s first ever report on illegal robocalls. Under Chairman Pai, combatting illegal robocalls and malicious spoofing has been the agency’s top consumer protection priority. |
| FCC Advances Next Steps in Expansion of Rural Broadband Service The Federal Communications Commission today took the next step toward expanding broadband service to over 713,000 rural homes and businesses in 45 states supported by the successful Connect America Fund Phase II Auction. |
| First Global Private Mobile Network for Enterprises Debuts Tango Networks unveiled Kinetic Cloud Mobile-X, the industry’s first communications service that creates a private mobile network exclusively controlled by an enterprise for maximizing productivity of its distributed workforce. |
| Calix Adds Machine Learning to Help CSPs Predict Churn Calix, Inc. today announced a new machine learning capability in the latest release of Calix Marketing Cloud (CMC) to reduce subscriber churn. |
| Kaloom Debuts Solution for Fully Automated Edge Data Center Deployments Kaloom, an emerging leader in the automated data center networking software market, today announced its Cloud Edge Fabric (CEF), the first fully automated data center network fabric with native support for network slicing along with embedded 5G user plane function (UPF). |
| Kinetic Edge Alliance Unites Partners to Deliver Edge Computing at Scale Vapor IO and partners have created the Kinetic Edge Alliance, an industry alliance of leading software, hardware, networking and integration companies committed to driving the broad adoption of compute, storage, access and interconnection at the edge of the cellular network, simplifying edge computing for the masses. |
| AT&T and VITAS Healthcare Conduct VR Study for Hospice Patients AT&T and VITAS Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, have launched a study that intends to combine 5G with virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR) to test if it can help reduce chronic pain and anxiety for certain hospice patients. |
| TNS Report Reveals Majority of US Adults Are Eager for 5G Upgrade This commissioned report from TNS reveals 72 percent of US respondents are eager for upgrade to 5G. |
| Wave2Wave Enhances Layer-0 Automation for Data Center Operators Wave2Wave Solution, the global leader in physical layer automation, today introduced two large robotic fiber switches to its ROME product family, ROME MAX and ROME MAX-T. |
| Telia Carrier and 123Net Partner to Increase Michigan Network Capacity 123Net, Michigan’s premier data center services provider and host of the Detroit Internet Exchange (DET-IX), has tapped Telia Carrier’s 100G-enabled global IP backbone to provide scalable capacity and connectivity to the Michigan market. |
| Juniper Says Smart Home Devices Will Drive Digital Voice Assistant Expansion A new study from Juniper Research has found that there will be 8 billion digital voice assistants in use by 2023, up from an estimated 2.5 billion at the end of 2018. |
| Nokia Expands WING Platform with Managed Service IoT Packages Nokia expands its WING offering with IoT applications for operators to address new vertical markets. |
| New Global Partnership Makes Sustainable IoT Security More Accessible The Kudelski Group and IDEMIA today announced a global partnership that provides manufacturers and service providers a single, fully- ntegrated solution to manage the network connectivity and security of cellular IoT devices. |
| Ericsson and Intel Team Up on Next-Gen Hardware Infrastructure for 5G Ericsson and Intel Corporation have begun a multi-year collaboration to align ongoing development efforts in software-defined infrastructure. |
| RAD Selected by Two European Tier 1 CSPs for 5G Rollouts RAD, the industry leader in Service Assured Access, today announced that its ETX-2i-10G cell site gateway has been selected for two 5G rollouts by tier-1 service providers in Europe. |
| Flexenclosure Expands in Asia Pacific with Western Australian Data Center Flexenclosure has delivered its flagship eCentre data center solution to NEXTDC Ltd, Australia’s leading independent data center as-a-service provider |
| Nokia and M-net to Trial Probabilistically Shaped Wavelength Transmission Nokia and German service provider M-net have jointly announced the first field trial of probabilistically shaped wavelengths using Nokia Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE 3) super coherent technology. |
| Vodafone UK, Ericsson, and Qualcomm Team Up for 5G Smartphone Device Lab Tests Vodafone UK, Ericsson and Qualcomm are teaming up to conduct lab tests of a smartphone device and 5G technology as part of preparing for 4K video and 3d holographic calling-on-the-go. |
| Ericsson Debuts New Broadband Critical Communications Portfolio Ericsson has launched its critical communications broadband portfolio for service providers. |
| Ultra Mobile Expands Unlimited Calling to 80 Worldwide Destinations Ultra Mobile, the nationwide carrier focused on democratizing wireless communication, announced the expansion of its unlimited calling program to more than 80 destinations around the world. With over 900,000,000 minutes of international calls over the past twelve months, this expansion pushes forward the target of one billion international minutes in 2019. |
| Gilat Successfully Tests Maritime Connectivity over Telesat’s Satellite Gilat completed a successful test demonstrating exceptional maritime connectivity over Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO Satellite. |
| Windstream and MOBITV to Launch Kinetic TV Windstream and MOBITV announced plans to launch an app-based television service, Kinetic TV. |
| IX Reach Partners with Djibouti Data Center for African Network Expansion IX Reach has selected Djibouti Data Center as its newest Point of Presence in its African network expansion. |
