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Windstream Wholesale announced an ultra-long-haul network expansion between Phoenix and Las Vegas, adding approximately 300 miles to its existing coast-to-coast long-haul network and providing a new diverse route option for customers out of Phoenix, including unique low-latency routing to and from Reno, Salt Lake City and Silicon Valley. In addition, the extension offers Las Vegas […]
NEC launched an enhanced Traffic Management Solution (TMS) for 5G that improves the throughput of high-speed networks that support data transfer rates of more than 5 Gbps. NEC said 5G requires greater throughput from core networks through the wireless access networks. However, there will be a mixture of networks with different communication speeds, such as […]
Amdocs announced new customer wins with Comcast Business, Verizon and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Some highlights: Amdocs now supports Comcast Business’ commercially available software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) service, the first business product powered by the ActiveCore SDN Platform. Amdocs provides the integration, orchestration and automation and NFV use cases needed for Comcast to reinvent […]
MEF Annual Meeting, Daniele Mancuso, Director of Innovation & Engineering, Sparkle, shares about MEF initiatives that the Italian-based operator has been involved in and provides a preview of Sparkle’s major role in the Proof of Concept Showcase at the MEF18 event, 29 Oct. – 2 Nov. in Los Angeles. Daniele highlights planned participation in three […]
Qadium, a start-up based in San Francisco, has been awarded a $37.6 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense for its cybersecurity solution. Qadium provides real-time monitoring of the entire global Internet for customers’ assets. In The company said the contract was awarded by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Warfare Command after the Department […]
Sierra Wireless introduced a compact cellular router for the IoT with support for LTE and LTE-M/NB-IoT variants The AirLink LX40 supports data processing at the edge and is designed for connecting cameras, smart lockers and point-of-sale terminals, as well as industrial remote data logging and sensing equipment in indoor or protected-outdoor locations. Sierra Wireless also […]
MACOM Technology Solutions, which supplies high-performance RF, microwave, millimeterwave and lightwave semiconductor products, reported revenue of $137.9 million for its 3rd fiscal quarter, a decrease of 29.1% compared to $194.6 million in the previous year fiscal third quarter and a decrease of 8.3% compared to $150.4 million in the prior fiscal quarter. Fiscal third quarter […]
SoftBank has joined The MulteFire Alliance’s board of directors, joining Boingo Wireless, CableLabs, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm. Yoshioki Chika, senior director of SoftBank’s Solution Strategy Office, will serve as the board director. “SoftBank has been an active member of the MulteFire Alliance since 2016 and I’m very pleased to announce its addition to […]
T-Mobile US awarded a $3.5 billion contract to Nokia for the deployment of its nationwide 5G network. Specifically, Nokia will help build T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network with 600 MHz and 28 GHz millimeter wave 5G capabilities compliant with 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standards. The agreement covers Nokia’s end-to-end 5G technology, software and services portfolio. […]
MEF 3.0 is the spec that defines how carriers will talk to each other in the age of software-defined services. In this video, Shawn Hakl, Senior Vice President Business Products, Verizon, provides a general overview of MEF 3.0 and then gives a technical update on the latest development as of mid-2018. Filmed at the MEF […]
MEF is launching an SDN/NFV Professional Certification program. Nearly 6,000 people have completed MEF’s Carrier Ethernet certification. A Network Foundations certification was recently introduced. This new SDN/NFV certification builds on this base. Dan Pitt, SVP at MEF, introduces the professional certification program. Learn more at http://www.mef.net/certification
MEF announced its 2018-2019 Board of Directors, representing a broad geographic distribution of major service providers. MEF Board of Directors and Advisory Director Nan Chen, Executive Vice Chairman, CENX Frederick Chui, Senior Vice President, Global Data Sales and Presales, PCCW Global Shawn Hakl, Senior Vice President Business Products, Verizon Aamir Hussain, Executive Vice President and […]
Altice Europe will sell off its communications tower business in the Dominican Republic to Phoenix Tower International, a portfolio company of Blackstone, for US$170 million. The deal covers 1,049 sites currently operated by Altice Dominicana. In addition, Altice Dominicana will enter into a 20-year master agreement to lease back the facilities. Altice forms tower infrastructure […]
