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Attendance at the 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was 107,000 visitors, down slightly from 108,000 attendees in 2017 and compared with 101,000 attendees in 2016. Some stats for #MWC2018: attendees came from 205 countries and territories there were 2,400 exhibitors, up from 2,300 last year over 55 percent of attendees held senior-level positions, including […]
Coriant has announced several advancements to its Hyperscale Carrier Architecture (HCA), which is its open, agile, automated, and software-driven approach to network service innovation and which is aligned to CORD and optimized for Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC). The latest advancements include: Coriant Transcend Network Control and Orchestration Software enhancements – (1) the addition of an […]
Nutanix agreed to acquire Minjar, a start-up with development offices in Bengaluru, India that offers cost control and visibility services for workloads in public clouds. Financial terms were not disclosed. Minjar’ Botmetric service SmartAssist Assurance and SmartAssist Managed Cloud services help enterprises embrace the cloud effectively and optimize their multi-cloud environments for performance and cost. […]
Viasat introduced its fastest satellite-based home Internet service for the U.S. market to date, boasting nation—with downlink speeds up to 100 Mbps. The new Viasat service also offers unlimited data plans. The new service is powered by the ViaSat-2 satellite system, which was launched on June 1, 2017 by Arianespace. The Ka-band satellite was built […]
TE Connectivity (TE) introduced its zQSFP+ stacked belly-to-belly cages designed for high-density switches with 48 or 64 silicon ports. The cage supports a single printed circuit board (PCB) architecture (versus two PCBs) in each line card. The company said this new design addresses the requirements for higher density switches, including Open Compute Project (OCP) reference […]
As part of its global initiative to support ICT skills development, Huawei announced a partnership with Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) to set up the first ICT Academy in Singapore. The not-for-profit academy, titled Huawei Authorised Information Network Academy (HAINA), allows NYP to deliver Huawei Certification training to their students. The program is expected to benefit about […]
The top three Chinese Cloud service providers – Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu – are forecast to outpace the top four U.S. Cloud providers – Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook – in server growth by 2022, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. Over the same period, Small/Medium Businesses (SMB) are accelerating their migration to […]
Nutanix reported revenue of $286.7 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2018, up 44% year-over-year from $199.2 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2017, and reflecting the elimination of approximately $14 million in hardware revenue in the quarter as the company executes its shift toward increasing software revenue. Billings for the quarter amounted […]
La Capitale Insurance and Financial Services signed an agreement with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation. “The rapid development of financial technology and the challenges associated with the digital revolution force insurers to make an important choice in relation to their competitors: Will we follow the others or lead the way? We are choosing […]
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei introduced the world’s first commercial terminal device supporting 3GPP 5G NR. The device uses Huawei’s internally-developed Balong 5G01 chipset, which is compatible with all 5G frequency bands, including sub-6GHz and millimeter wave (MMW). “At Huawei, we’re guided by a vision of an all-connected world, and to achieve that […]
Mobile money has evolved into the leading payment platform for the digital economy in many emerging markets, according to GSMA. There are now more than 690 million mobile money accounts worldwide, many of which are held by individuals who previously had no access to the traditional banking system. The GSMA’s newly published, seventh annual ‘State […]
Alibaba Cloud launched eight cloud services for European markets. The services, which were introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, range from big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to infrastructure, security and private cloud solutions. “Alibaba Cloud wants to be an enabler for technology innovation in Europe helping enterprises do business. The Mobile World Congress […]
CommScope and Nokia have collaborated to develop a Massive MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) integrated antenna solution that enables network densification in support of mobile data traffic growth and the evolution to 5G. The Massive MIMO beamforming antenna solution consists of a CommScope dual-band, FDD-LTE antenna integrated with two Nokia AirScale radios to deliver 16T16R Massive […]
