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Comcast: ONF Trellis software is in production together with L2/L3 white box switches
Jet lagged yet energetic and cheerful, Comcast Senior VP of Next Generation Access Networks Elad Nafshi returned from a motor bike trip in the European alps (via a red eye flight from Frankfurt, Germany to SFO) to deliver an important keynote speech at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Connect 2019 conference in Santa Clara, CA… Read more
Economist Interview with Ren: Huawei may sell its 5G technology to a western buyer
Ren Zhengfei wants to create a competitor for his company. 5G technology—central to Huawei’s future revenue growth—is what founder and CEO Ren said he was ready to share, in a two-hour interview with The Economist on September 10th. For a one-time fee, a transaction would give the buyer perpetual access to Huawei’s existing 5G patents, licences,… Read more
ITU Telecom World 2019: 5G dominates debate at ITU-T organized CTO meeting in Budapest, Hungary
Introduction: Since 2016, ITU-T has organized meetings of high-level, private sector executives to discuss the standardization landscape, identifying and coordinating standards priorities and ways to best meet the needs of the private sector. This year’s meeting was in conjunction with ITU Telecom World 2019. Among the key conclusions of the 2019 Chief Technology Officers (CTOs)… Read more
SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics MOU for 8K TV connected via a 5G Network
SK Telecom (SKT) today announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samsung Electronics to jointly develop and commercialize the world’s first 5G-8K TV. SKT said the 5G-8K TV will revolutionize users’ television-watching experience by directly receiving 8K video over SK Telecom’s ultra-low latency and ultra-wideband 5G network. SKT launched its 5G service… Read more
Amazing 5G Coverage in Switzerland: Sunrise, Swisscom, and Salt push the envelope!
Sunrise is Switzerland’s #2 wireless carrier. It now claims its 5G network currently covers 80% of the population. Meanwhile, market leader Swisscom says it will have 90% 5G coverage by the end of 2019. #3 national operator Salt is working to launch 5G service sometime later this year. Note that Switzerland is a very small… Read more
Gartner: Worldwide 5G Network Infrastructure Revenues to hit $4.2bn in 2020
Executive Summary: Gartner Group forecasts that the worldwide 5G wireless network infrastructure revenue will double between 2019 and 2020. [That’s really amazing since the IMT 2020 standard for 5G RIT/SRITs won’t be completed till December 2020. That means each and every 5G pre-standard deployment is proprietary to the wireless network operator]. The market research firm… Read more
Dell’Oro: Worldwide Telecom Equipment market increases after 3 years of decline; VoLTE up 16% Y/Y
The worldwide telecom equipment market grew 6 percent year-over-year (Y/Y) in the past twelve months, according to a new Dell’Oro Group report. The majority of growth was driven by Mobile RAN and Optical Transport sales. Equipment manufacturer revenue in these two technology areas grew 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively. The telecom equipment market shifted… Read more
Dell to offer SD-WAN service based on VMware Velocloud platform
Dell Technologies announced it has started offering a co-branded SD-WAN service with its affiliate VMware, based on the latter’s VeloCloud platform. Previewed at Dell Technologies World in May, the new service is now globally available and supported. This Dell EMC SD-WAN Solution combines VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud with modern appliances in multiple configuration options. The… Read more
China Wireless Carriers Consider 5G Partnership Amidst 5G Budget Constraints in 2019
Chinese mobile operators may be soon working together to build 5G networks in order to limit the costs, the Nikkei Asian Review reports. And why not- all three are state owned! China’s second- and third-ranked mobile carriers, China Telecom and China Unicom area already close to an agreement. Number one China Mobile hasn’t commented yet. … Read more
WSJ: U.S. Cities saying no to 5G; Dept of Homeland Security on 5G Risks
By Christopher Mims Editor’s Note: The following article doesn’t mention two huge issues with current “5G” pre-IMT 2020 standard deployments (based on 3GPP Release 15 “5G NR” NSA): 1. Ultra low latency/ultra high reliability is not specified (it will be in 3GPP Release 16) and hopefully it will be included in the IMT 2020 specs… Read more