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U.S. officials are seeking the extradition of Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the U.S. based on allegations of fraud and of violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. At an extradition hearing on Friday in Vancouver, Crown prosecutors said the allegations concern a Huawei subsidiary called Skycom Tech and its activities doing business with Iran firms […]
Qualcomm demonstrated fanless PC systems based on its new, 7nm Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform. Commercial shipment based on the chip are expected to hit the market in Q3 2019. Key features: New octa-core Qualcomm Kryo 495 CPU, the fastest Kryo CPU ever designed and built by Qualcomm New Qualcomm Adreno 680 GPU — its most […]
Lumentum confirmed that it has obtained antitrust clearance from the People’s Republic of China’s State Administration for Market Regulation concerning its pending acquisition of Oclaro. Lumentum expects that the Oclaro acquisition will close on or around December 10, 2018. Lumentum to acquire Oclaro for $1.8 billion Monday, March 12, 2018 #OFC2018, Lumentum, Merger & Acquisitions, Oclaro Lumentum agreed to […]
Mellanox Technologies confirmed that it is now shipping its RDMA over Ethernet (RoCE) 25Gbps ConnectX network adapters for deployment in Alibaba Infrastructure Services’ production network. RDMA technology provides Remote Direct Memory Access from the memory of one host to the memory of another host without involving the operating system and CPU, therefore boosting network and […]
Anritsu and Qualcomm completed 5G Standalone (SA) connection testing between Anritsu’s Radio Communication Test Station MT8000A and a mobile smartphone form-factor test device. The testing included Qualcomm’s 5G modem and antenna modules with integrated RF transceiver, RF front-end and antenna elements. The SA mode uses 5G NR technology to send and receive both data and […]
Reliance Industries (RIL) is expected to complete its acquisitio of Radisys no later than December 14, 2018. Radisys said the companies are working to close the transaction as promptly as practicable on or before that date. In connection therewith, RIL also acknowledged that Radisys has satisfied all conditions to RIL’s obligations to close the transaction. […]
Toshiba America Electronic Components introduced 12TB and 14TB models to both its N300 NAS Hard Drive and X300 Performance Hard Drive series. Both are 3.5-inch mechancial drives employing a helium-sealed design. They operate at 7,200rpm and come with an ultra-high 256MB data buffer. Toshiba said both the N300 NAS and X300 models use its advanced […]
The FCC released 581 pages of data indices for its Communications Marketplace Report. The FCC said these appendices reflect updates to data received and processed after the release of the draft Communications Marketplace Report on November 21, 2018. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-355405A1.pdf Two items from the report
Following widely reported outages impacting O2’s 4G network in the UK and Softbank’s mobile network across central Japan, Ericsson issued an urgent bulletin attributing the issue to two specific software versions of the SGSN–MME (Serving GPRS Support Node – Mobility Management Entity). The main issue was an expired certificate in these software versions. Ericsson said […]
Here’s an update on the SDN Enabled Broadband Access reference design developed by Open Networking Foundation (ONF), presented by ADTRAN’s Kurt Raaflaub. https://youtu.be/psvPvGUT_W4 SEBA is a lightweight platform based on a variant of R-CORD. It supports a multitude of virtualized access technologies at the edge of the carrier network, including PON, G.Fast, and eventually DOCSIS […]
U.S. revenue is estimated at more than $282 million for Managed SD-WAN services in 2018, according to a new report from Vertical Systems Group covering service migration, network connectivity and market sizing. This figure is based on billable U.S. customer sites and WAN access connections installed and under management. A Managed SD-WAN Service is defined […]
ADTRAN has acquired SmartRG Inc, a supplier of open-source connected home platforms and cloud services for broadband service providers. Financial terms were not disclosed. SmartRG, which is based in Vancouver, Washington, offers a portfolio of cloud-management, analytics, Wi-Fi-enabled residential gateways along with a SmartOS software platform. SmartRG counts more than 3 million devices in service […]
MEF18 Proof of Concept, 29 – 31 Oct – MEF 3.0 LSO Federated Inter-Carrier Bandwidth-on-Demand Services Through Automated Discovery and Blockchain Settlement. PoC Participants: PCCW Global, Sparkle, Tata Communications, SingTel, CBCcom, Liquid Telecom, Infonas, Clear, and Cataworx. This group won the MEF18 PoC Silver Award. Speaker: Shahar Steiff, AVP, New Technology, PCCW Global. A typical […]
