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Just in time for Mobile World Congress 2018, Ericsson is introducing “a new tethered-aerial infrastructure product” – basically a base station in a balloon that is tethered to the ground – as a means of delivering mobile broadband in rural locations. We like this idea! It sounds more reasonable than Google’s Project Loon (update below), […]
T-Mobile has hit download speeds of 1.3 Gbps using Nokia’s commercial Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology. The high-performance was achieving using 14-layer transmissions during tests conducted at T-Mobile’s lab in Bellevue, Washington. The tests employed an Nokia AirScale Micro RRH connected to an AirScale system module. Speeds of 1.3 Gbps were achieved by aggregating LTE […]
Rackspace is extending its long-running partnership with Cisco to include advanced security solutions. Rackspace, which was already one of Cisco’s largest firewall customers, continues to pilot Cisco’s advanced security solutions. Rackspace has deployed and served as a testing partner for Cisco’s stateful firewall, the ASA series, to the ASA 5500-X Series, to now the Cisco […]
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) has made landfall at Fortaleza, Brazil, marking a major milestone in the development of the system. The SACS subsea system is a 40 Tbps, 6,165 km cable linking Angola to Brazil. It features four fibre pairs, with each fibre pair capable of transmitting 100 wavelengths at 100 Gbps. SACS […]
Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) has selected Radisys; MobilityEngine LTE-Advanced and 5G RAN software to run on its open server hardware platforms, delivering optimized high performance and low latency RAN solutions to mobile operators globally. The solution also integrates Affirmed Networks’ cloud native 5G Mobile Core and leverages Radisys’ integration services. QCT is a leading hardware […]
Zayo Group will sell its Scott-Rice Telephone Co. business unit, a Minnesota ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier), for $42 million to New Ulm Telecom, Inc. Zayo acquired Scott-Rice Telephone as part of its March 2017 purchase of Electric Lightwave and has since managed it separately within its Allstream business segment. Scott-Rice Telephone serves residential and […]
Orange and KPN have conducted roaming between their respective nationwide public IoT networks based on the latest LoRa Alliance specifications. The testing included Actility, an IoT connectivity platform supplier. In October, the LoRa Alliance released the first version of the LoRaWAN Backend Interfaces Specification. This governs how LoRaWAN sensor data are passed between different networks […]
See part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 SECTION 5 National level networks Kenyan National Optical Fibre Programme The National Optic Fibre Backbone (NOFBI) is a project aimed at ensuring connectivity in all the 47 counties of Kenya both to ease communication across counties as well as improve government service delivery to the citizens such […]
See part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 Airtel Kenya Airtel Kenya, the second largest operator in Kenya in terms of subscription numbers with a 15.3% market share, is one African national telecommunications unit of Airtel Africa, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel the leading operator in India which entered the African market in June 2010 under […]
NeoPhotonics announced the commercial shipment of its suite of 64 GBaud optical components for coherent systems operating at 600G and 1.2T. The suite consists of three critical optical components: a 64 GBaud CDM (Coherent Driver Modulator), plus a 64 GBaud ICR (Coherent Intradyne Receiver) and finally an ultra-narrow linewidth tunable laser. NeoPhotonics said these components […]
CenturyLink has captured the #1 spot on Vertical Systems Group’s latest LEADERBOARD of U.S. Ethernet market leaders. It is the first time a provider other than AT&T has led the benchmark ranking since 2005. Seven companies achieved LEADERBOARD status for 2017 (in rank order based on retail port share): CenturyLink, AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, Comcast, […]
AT&T is expanding its SD-WAN –offer to more than 150 countries and territories. The AT&T SD-WAN – Network Based service was first launched in the U.S. in 2017. The service enables businesses to mix and match site types and connect AT&T VPN sites, internet protocol security sites and SD-WAN sites in a single VPN, while […]
NEC announcedd a series of 5G verification experiments that it has conducted with NTT DOCOMO. The testing involves coordinated control between Distribution Units (DUs) using a massive-element Active Antenna System (AAS) base station system belonging to a Centralized-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) configuration. A Central Unit (CU) is used to control multiple DUs. NEC said its […]
