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Broadband Forum published three new standards including 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence Architecture (TR-470), Access Gateway Function (AGF) Functional Requirements (TR-456) and Device Data Model (TR-181). Together, these documents provide functions...

 Russian communications service provider Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is to deploy an Ericsson-powered 5G-ready dedicated network for gold and silver producer Polymetal at the Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in the Republic of...

Etisalat is using software from Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, for end-to-end multi-vendor DWDM Transport network orchestration in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.The Blue Planet software...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is working with Keysight Technologies to develop a transceiver test bench for a hybrid vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication system.To fully realize smart mobility, there are...

Vantage Data Centers has acquired the hyperscale data center business from Hypertec in Montreal. Financial terms were not disclosed.Hypertec’s 49MW campus includes 25MW across two existing facilities and 24MW of...

Switch signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with an existing global e-commerce client to significantly grow its footprint at Switch's Citadel Campus in Northern Nevada. This transaction follows the previously announced...

Ericsson announced a 5-year contract with CETIN, a wholesale telecom infrastructure company, to bring 5G to the Czech Republic.Ericsson is set to modernize more than 4,000 cellular sites across the...

Accenture has acquired Arca, a Spanish engineering services company with a focus on network operations and business services. Arca provides multidisciplinary services for network operations — including activities to engineer, design,...

NEC Corporation has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS, making it the first Japanese company to do so.With the support of the AWS Professional Services team (new windowProServe),...

Claro Colombia has launched an ambitious 5G trial program in four cities in partnership with Nokia.  The tests cover mobile, fixed wireless access (FWA) and corporate 5G services in 3.5GHz...

Nokia introduced a 25 Gbps symmetrical PON fiber broadband solution based on its own Quillion chipset and existing next-generation PON access platform and line cards. Nokia says 25G PON will...

European operators resumed purchases of optical and packet transport hardware in 3Q20 as COVID-related supply chain and operational delays eased, according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report from research...

Thanks to higher demand in Asia Pacific, optical transport equipment revenue increased 9 percent year-over-year in 3Q 2020 reaching $3.8 billion, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.“Sales slowed...