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Hyperscalers are keenly focused on migrating as many enterprise workloads as possible onto their clouds. They have the expertise and the infrastructure. However, when it comes to data sovereignty, telcos will have certain advantages, especially if they are partnered with the hyperscalers. Sunil Khandekar shares his perspective.
Rakuten Mobile obtained preliminary experimental test station licenses in Japan to conduct mobile communication tests and preliminary verification using AST SpaceMobile’s low earth orbit satellite, BlueWalker 3. AST SpaceMobile is building a space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard unmodified mobile phones. The company’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite launched from the USA on September […]
by Benedict Chua, Associate Editor NTT DOCOMO and SK Telecom (SKT) agreed to collaborate on the competitive enhancement of their respective smart-life businesses and communications-infrastructure technologies worldwide. In the smart-life field, DOCOMO and SKT will discuss joint production of original content for their respective video distribution platforms and leverage their video-business synergies for expanded presence […]
BAI Communications (BAI), which specializes in shared communications infrastructure, completed its acquisition of ZenFi Networks (ZenFi), a US East coast-based provider of digital infrastructure solutions and innovator in small cell deployment, offload & roaming services, fibre connectivity, and network edge colocation. BAI Group companies include Mobilitie, Signal Point, Transit Wireless and ZenFi Networks in the […]
The Dublin City Council, Ireland, supported by Virgin Media Business, is testing Wi-Fi 6 Access Points that are compliant with TIP OpenWiFi and with the technical requirements of the European Commission’s WiFi4EU initiative, the benchmark for public Wi-Fi deployments in Europe. The deployment includes a cloud-based controller from NetExperience and access points from Edgecore and […]
CoreStack’s NextGen Cloud Governance platform has achieved “Powered by Oracle Cloud” Expertise and is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The CoreStack platform enables AI-powered cloud governance and management to provide customers with data-driven actionable intelligence into various business-critical facets of cloud. CoreStack offers added value to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers with these key benefits: […]
Enrico Maria Bagnasco has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Sparkle by TIM’s Board of Directors. Bagnasco previously served as Sparkle’s Chief Technology Officer and before that as Head of Product and Portfolio Management at TIM. Elisabetta Romano, Chief Network Operations & Wholesale Officer of TIM, will maintain her role as Board Director. Sparkle’s […]
Padtec has appointed Alexandre Piovesan to a new board position dedicated to the area of solutions, platforms and telecommunications services. The purpose is to make the services unit even more strategic in the company, with a function dedicated specifically to the development of platforms and complete solutions for the telecommunications sector, in order to monitor […]
The FCC published a pre-production draft of its new National Broadband Map, displaying specific location-level information about broadband services available throughout the country. By entering a U.S. address, it is possible to see which providers are offering broadband services at that premise. The Fixed Broadband Map shows the fiber, cable, DSL, satellite, or fixed wireless […]
Google Cloud has enabled a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm on its internal Application Layer Transport Security (ALTS) protocol to protect its internal communications. Althought PQC standards by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are still pending, Google said it has acted to implement PQC now because attackers might capture conventionally-encrypted now with the […]
The European Commission, Parliament and Council have approved plans for a third constellation in the European portfolio of strategic space infrastructures. Europe’s Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnection & Security by Satellites (IRIS) will be a sovereign constellation focused on government services, including defence applications. It will have an EU budget of €2.4 billion, plus a […]
TIM has selected Ericsson to provide its 5G Core, enabling the Italian carrier to modernize its current “Evolved Packet Core” and introduce the new 5G Standalone in a single cloud-native solution. The agreement also includes network orchestration and automation services, which underpin the introduction of ultra-reliable, low-latency network slicing and communications (URLLC) solutions. A key […]
KPN is testing Nokia’s 25G PON implementation. In a field trial at an animal hospital in Rotterdam, KPN is delivering symmetrical speeds of 20 Gbps over its existing fiber network. Nokia notes that its Quillon chip enables 25G PON alongside GPON and XGS-PON on the same fiber, and powered by the same access node. Babak […]
