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Cignal AI: Optical Network Equipment Sales +25% in 4Q2019 + 650 Group
Cignal AI: Recent optical network equipment sales in North America were quite encouraging – up more than 25% for 4Q19 and 10% for all of 2019, according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report. “After three years of North American spending declines as operators focused capex on wireless and access, optical hardware sales in the… Read more
Telenor deploys first commercial 5G network in Norway
On March 13th, Telenor Norway announced the commercial launch of a 5G network in nine towns and cities in Norway, following a 5G trial that began in Kongsberg in November 2018. Ericsson is Telenor’s 5G base station supplier. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… “We are happy to announce that we have chosen Ericsson to start building the future 5G… Read more
Nokia Bell Labs sets world record in fiber optic bit rates
Nokia Bell Labs announced that its researchers set the world record for the highest single carrier bit rate at 1.52 Tbps over 80 km of standard single mode fibre, the equivalent of simultaneously streaming 1.5 million YouTube videos – which is four times the market’s existing approximately 400 Gbps. The company said this world record,… Read more
GSA: Over 250 5G devices announced with 67 commercially available
The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today reported that the number of announced 5G devices has broken the 250 barrier, spurred by a surge in 5G phone announcements. In January 2020, the number of announced 5G devices exceeded 200 for the first time; by early March[1] over 250 devices had been announced with GSA identifying 253 announced devices,… Read more
Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband service at DoE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Verizon Business and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working together on ways that 5G technology can improve national security, boost energy efficiency and aid scientific research. The #1 U.S. wireless carrier notes that the work is related to its overriding strategy of developing use cases for 5G that apply to… Read more
Cignal AI: North American Optical Sales Rebound In 2019
Long Haul WDM Spending Reaches Record Levels: Recent optical equipment sales in North America were encouraging – up more than 25% for 4Q19 and 10% for all of 2019 according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report from research firm Cignal AI. The North American packet market for Access and Aggregation routing devices also grew strongly in… Read more
AT&T deploys XGS-PON to power FTTH nets
AT&T has enhanced its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) “last mile” network by deploying XGS-PON [1.] technology which will be live in 40 markets. AT&T will start out providing 1 gigabit download speeds before eventually boosting them to 10 gigabits per second in both directions as it upgrades from GPON networks. The company said it has deployed XGS-PON… Read more
AT&T deploys XGS-PON to power FTTH nets
AT&T has enhanced its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) “last mile” network by deploying XGS-PON [1.] technology which will be live in 40 markets. AT&T will start out providing 1 gigabit download speeds before eventually boosting them to 10 gigabits per second in both directions as it upgrades from GPON networks. The company said it has deployed XGS-PON… Read more
5G Technology and It’s Future in Mobile Communications
by Jacob Wolinski. Excerpts of article posted at: https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/03/5g-tech-market/ Introduction: It is evident that 3G and 4G network mobile phones have been an immense driver in the steep surge of internet use on mobile phones, across the world, and the continuing growth of the network. The next generation of a telecom network is 5G, which… Read more
GSMA: New Telco Edge Cloud Platform Project has 9 Telcos Participating
GSMA announced a new initiative to develop a common telco edge cloud platform for network operators. China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Singtel, SK Telecom, Telefonica and TIM are participating in the project. It will make local network operator assets made available to developers and software vendors to bring their services closer to enterprise… Read more