Optus, AWS Create 5G Solution for Electricity Grid Inspections using Drone

Rakuten Symphony, announced general availability of its Symworld™ RAN Commander solution for automated 5G mobile network planning and optimization. RAN Commander has proven to boost Radio Access Network (RAN) productivity planning by 4x[1] to overcome limitations of conventional planning and optimization methods. The ever-increasing number of connected devices demands...

EchoStar announced an agreement with Astro Digital, a designer, manufacturer and operator of small satellite systems, for the construction of a global S-band mobile satellite service (MSS) network. Under the agreement, Astro Digital will manufacture the satellites for the constellation, which will deliver global Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M)...

Totogi, the leading provider of multi-tenant, public cloud-based telco SaaS software, announced the availability of converged 4G and 5G fair usage policy management in Totogi Charging-as-a-Service. Telco product and marketing teams can introduce fair usage caps and speed controls for 4G and 5G customers on unlimited data plans within minutes...

Vocus has announced its long-time partner Challenge Networks – a market leader in designing and deploying private mobile networks –will become part of Vocus. Vocus has signed a contract to acquire Challenge Networks, which builds on Vocus’ strategy to provide secure, high-capacity connectivity to Australian enterprise and government customers – wherever they are – through its national fibre, satellite, and now wireless network infrastructure.

#1: Networks evolve to become a source of direct business value. Networks will go beyond pure connectivity to become a direct business value. Wireless is moving from a communications technology to become a broader digital innovation platform. The migration to the cloud is driving this. That said, we need to...

Teltronic, a Spanish company with almost 50 years of experience in the critical communications sector, will be responsible for supplying the on-board equipment that will provide broadband communications service to the new trains on line 1 of the Mexico City Metro. Teltronic’s RTP-800 equipment, a state-of-the-art on-board radio that enables...

Amdocs announced that it has been selected by Vodafone Ireland to transition its infrastructure and application workloads to the cloud, enabling an enhanced customer experience and rapid adoption of the latest 5G innovations. Under the agreement, Amdocs Customer Experience Suite (CES) will migrate from Vodafone Ireland on-premise to the cloud,...

The amount of data processed in data centers is increasing dramatically, and there is rising demand for higher speeds and higher capacities. Data transmission speeds have already entered the era of 400 Gbps and new data centers are being constructed. At the same time, networks between data centers are switching to 400GBASE-ZR (400ZR) compatible equipment and are installing new equipment to reduce operating costs and expand communications capacity. While the introduction of 400ZR brings many benefits to data center operators, the operators themselves must guarantee the quality of the communications in their own networks, making maintenance and management an issue.

Leading digital solutions platform Globe has successfully completed pilot deployments in Southeast Asia of the first multi-beam, multi-band lens antenna technology. The new solution provides improved 4G/LTE and 5G mobile capacity and reduces coverage holes, especially in large gatherings. Invented by MatSing (MatSing) and implemented by IBMS Technology Phils (IBMS),...

Prime, a global provider of hyperscale and wholesale data centers, announced plans to expand its EMEA footprint to Denmark with a 124-megawatt campus. Located at Energivej in Saeby, Prime Denmark features three hyperscale data centers and will be marketed to international cloud providers, Internet businesses, AI, and the Global Fortune 500.

Neeco announced the signing of a global Master Hardware Distributor Agreement with Versa Networks, the leader in Unified SASE, as Versa’s first-ever global Master Hardware Distributor. This formalizes the long-standing relationship between Neeco and Versa to provide more effective and streamlined procurement solutions for Versa and their end customers.

Ipoque GmbH, a Rohde & Schwarz company, cooperates with Chemnitz University of Technology on a research project on cybersecurity and digital sovereignty. In doing so, ipoque is working on another technical innovation as a market leader in deep packet inspection (DPI). The project centers around protection from DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) and jamming attacks. Currently, there are only a few practical solutions for this problem. This gives ipoque the opportunity to be among the firsts with a fitting solution on the cybersecurity market.

2022 saw significant progress and advancements in the availability of 5G. By the end of the year, there were about one billion 5G users across the globe, with the technology moving closer to the mainstream than ever before. The availability of 5G is set to continue to grow over the...

NTT, a leading global IT infrastructure and services company, announced the addition of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE to its Managed Campus Networks portfolio. The new offering is a comprehensive managed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution that includes SD-WAN, cloud-delivered security, and enhanced automation and reporting. The end-to-end solution is designed to help enterprises meet current digital transformation challenges and enable more flexible ways of working.

Stc Group, the leading digital enabler, and Telefónica , one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, announced the signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement to work together and benefit from their joint scale, combined expertise and market presence. By signing this Strategic Agreement, stc Group becomes a...

The concept of the “metaverse” has gained sizeable traction across various industries, with metaverse investment having reached a total of $120 billion as of 2022, and the value of the metaverse projected to reach $5 trillion in 2030, according to a McKinsey report. Although still in its infancy,...

The Fast Mode spoke to Ivan Shefrin, Executive Director of Comcast Business Managed Security Services on new encryption technologies and their impact on today's networks. Ivan joins us in a series of discussions with leading vendors in the traffic management, service assurance, traffic monitoring, analytics, policy control and network security space, assessing various attributes of encryption, its benefits as well as the challenges it poses, specifically loss of visibility that makes networking increasingly complex.

The Fast Mode spoke to Bernhard Kraft, Director of Technical Product Management at Optiva on new encryption technologies and their impact on today's networks. Bernhard joins us in a series of discussions with leading vendors in the traffic management, service assurance, traffic monitoring, analytics, policy control and network security space, assessing various attributes of encryption, its benefits as well as the challenges it poses, specifically loss of visibility that makes networking increasingly complex.

Mobile screens have many distractions. There is a lot of text, color, sound, and motion - and fingers are scrolling fast. The majority of what is technically “seen” is likely missed, according to recent research. But beyond that, even if something “appears” on a mobile screen, there is...