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Oscilloquartz, which is a division of ADVA, launched an enhanced primary reference time clock (ePRTC) system for 5G network timing. The Oscilloquartz solution, which is able to provide timing accuracy and stability even when the GNSS signal is lost, features the OSA 3230B ePRC atomic cesium clock connected to an Oscilloquartz clock combiner and grandmaster. […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to invest $4 billion in Intelligent Edge technologies and services over the next four years. The plan calls for investments in research and development to advance and innovate new products, services and consumption models across a number of technology domains such as security, AI and machine learning, automation and edge computing. […]
Cisco agreed to acquire July Systems, a start-up offering a cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. July Systems, which based in Burlingame, California with offices in Bangalore, India, has worked for several years as an OEM for Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX). Cisco plans to add July Systems’ platform […]
Orange conducted a trial of Cloud RAN technology in its live network in Poland in conjunction with Nokia. The trial, which used Orange’s own cloud infrastructure, took place from March to the beginning of May in Poland, with radio sites in the city of Chelm and the virtualized part of the baseband running in a […]
HPE introduced its GreenLake Hybrid Cloud for managing its enterprise customers’ private infrastructure while optimizing integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack. Unlike a traditional managed service, HPE said its GreenLake will provide an automated, cloud-native model that eliminates the need for organizations to hire or train new staff to oversee and manage cloud […]
Toshiba introduced a new category of SAS SSDs to replace SATA SSDs in servers. The RM5 12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS) series feature Toshiba’s BiCS FLASH TLC (3-bit-per-cell) 3D flash memory and will initially be available in capacities up to 7.68TB in a 2.5” form factor. Toshiba said the new drives offer capacity, performance, reliability, manageability […]
The total number of mobile subscriptions worldwide reached 7.9 billion in Q1 2018, up by 94 million in the quarter, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report, which would equate to a 104% penetration rate. Of course, the figure reflects multiple mobile subscriptions held by many individuals, thus accounting for the fact that hundreds of millions […]
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Technology concluded its auction of 5G spectrum. Total winning bids amounted to 3,618.3 billion won (US$3.28 billion). In the 3.5 GHz band, SKT and KT were allocated 100 MHz bandwidth, and LGU + was allocated 80 MHz bandwidth. In the case of the 28 GHz band, SKT, KT, and […]
Dr. John Cioffi, Chairman and CEO of ASSIA and Professor Emeritus at Stanford, will present a vision for delivering terabit-class connectivity over twisted pair copper lines in the home. This fiber-like speed could be enabled by leveraging previously-unexploited waveguide modes of current copper infrastructure coupled with ASSIA’s vectored transmission capability. In a presentation at this […]
Internet of Things (IoT) spending will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.6% over the 2017-2022 forecast period and reach $1.2 trillion in 2022, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide (version 2H17). “The IoT market is at a turning point – projects are moving from proof of concept […]
Hortonworks, which offers enterprise Apache Hadoop solutions, added new enterprise features including containerization for faster and easier deployment of applications, as well as new collaborations with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The enhancements in the latest Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 3.0, which is based on Apache Hadoop 3.1, include: Agile application deployment via containerization, which […]
The U.S. Senate voted 85 to 10 to approve a $716 billion defense spending authorization bill that includes a provision extending the restriction on the export of U.S. technologies to ZTE. The provision is a rebuke to President Trump’s decision to lift the ban against exports to ZTE. The Senate version of the defense spending […]
AT&T introduceed its COM3000, its third generation DIRECTV for Business video headend. With it, businesses will get more channels than ever. The COM3000 can deliver up to 138 HD channels, including 4K HDR programming. Business owners can add channels one at a time, including their own in-house and over-the-top (OTT) channels. AT&T said the COM3000 […]
