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Swisscom is accelerating its timetable for 5G by two years. The company says it now plans to roll out 5G at the end of 2018. Swisscom confirmed that Ericsson, its network equipment supplier, will deliver the first 5G hardware and software and implement it in the Swisscom mobile network this year. Switzerland’s first 5G mast […]
Blue Danube Systems announced the commercial deployment of its massive MIMO solution to multiple clustered cell sites. Blue Danube has performed multi-sector beam optimization using its BeamCraft 500 Massive MIMO systems at two different sites within the FDD-LTE network at a US mobile operator. The company said that it has not been clearly proven until […]
SpaceX successfully launched the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) PAZ observation satellite on behalf of Hisdesat and two satellites of its own. Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A. is an international commercial provider of X- and Ka-band satellite communications services for government. The company is based in Madrid, Spain. Its PAZ satellite is designed to capture Earth images […]
Telefónica and Orange announced a new commercial wholesale fiber agreement. Under the arrangement, Orange will be able to access Telefonica’s FTTH network, representing an extension of the current 2016 agreement. Telefónica and Orange reaffirmed their mutual commitment to a long-term wholesale relation in areas where Orange is not planning to deploy its own FTTH network. […]
Telcos are rapidly evolving their central offices to be more agile, efficient and capable of delivering edge services for mobile and broadband users. This video panel discusses Central Office 2.0. Participants include Mike Yang, President of QCT; Dan Rodriguez, VP of Network Platforms Group, Intel; and Bill Snow, Chief Development Officer, ONF. Where does the […]
See part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 MARKET SHARES Mobile subscriber unit market shares Based on operator returns to the regulator the following were the unit market-shares by operator during the quarter. Share […]
Antin Infrastructure Partners (Antin) agreed to acquire FirstLight, a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in the Northeast U.S., from Oak Hill Capital Partners IV. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Antin is a leading independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments. FirstLight originally started as an Albany, New York-focused fiber […]
FiberLight will provide backhaul connectivity in the U.S.for Angola Cables. The partners will leverage the recently completed 10,556-km Monet cable linking Florida to Brazil, which is capable of delivering a minimum of 64 Tbps of capacity. Angola Cables operates two fiber optic pairs within the Monet cable system, one transmitting data from Fortaleza, Brazil to […]
Bosch, which is one of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive subsystems, announced its entrance into the ridesharing business and its acquisition of Splitting Fares, a start-up based in Detroit that operates a platform that allows companies, universities, and municipal authorities to offer their workforces ridesharing services. Financial terms were not disclosed. The SPLT app […]
Accedian has acquired Performance Vision, a company based in Paris that specializes in network and application performance management (NPM/APM). Financial terms were not disclosed. Accedian said Performance Vision’s exceptional wire data analytics complements its own SkyLIGHT active monitoring platform, bringing visibility of all applications, transactions, and network components together. The solution delivers actionable insight generated […]
Broadcom trimmed its offer to acquire Qualcomm from $82 to $79 per share, but said it is still committed to pursuing the deal. The offer consists of $57 in cash and $22 in Broadcom shares. The decision to cut the price follows Qualcomm’s decision to increase its offer to acquire NXP Semiconductor from $110 to […]
CyrusOne reported Q4 revenue of $180.5 million, compared to $137.4 million for the same period in 2016, an increase of 31%. The increase in revenue was driven primarily by a 49% increase in leased CSF and additional interconnection services. Q4 net income was $2.8 million, compared to net income of $0.8 million in the same […]
Napatech announced support for TRex on its FPGA-powered SmartNICs, enabling lossless, high-performance traffic generation at all speeds up to 100GigE. TRex is an open source traffic generator, widely deployed across industries to test, benchmark and debug networks. “When developing high-performance networking equipment, you constantly need the ability to generate traffic at ultra-high speeds over complex […]
