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Verizon deploys Private 5G at Wichita Smart Factory; 5G Radio’s an Issue?
Executive Summary: Verizon Business announced that its private 5G wireless network is live at The Smart Factory at Wichita, a new immersive, industry experience centre convened by Deloitte. Verizon collaborates with Deloitte and other companies in the Smart Factory ecosystem to advance smart manufacturing deployment and allow manufacturers to quickly adopt cutting-edge Industry 4.0 solutions and… Read more
Bullitt Satellite Connect: Another 2-way Satellite Messaging Service announced at CES 2023
Bullitt Group, the British manufacturer specializing in rugged mobile phones, has revealed a few more details about its two-way satellite messaging service at CES 2023. The service will be commercially available in North America and Europe the first quarter of 2023, the company said. Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Latin America will launch sometime in… Read more
Blues Wireless Raises $32M To Accelerate Adoption of Cellular IoT for Enterprises
Embedded connectivity startup Blues Wireless (Blues), today announced a $32 million Series A1 funding round led by Positive Sum, and including new investors Four Rivers, Northgate, and Qualcomm. Previous backers Sequoia, Cascade, Lachy Groom and XYZ also participated. By using the Blues Notecard and Notehub, businesses can quickly, securely, and cost-effectively connect their physical products to the cloud via a… Read more
Silicom Ltd. secures major SD-WAN design win, identifies total addressable market
Israel headquartered Silicom Ltd., a leading provider of networking and data infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has secured a Design Win from an undisclosed leading SD-WAN vendor, a Fortune 500 company with SD-WAN–related customers in the Americas, APAC and EMEA. The win is for a customized version of one of Silicom’s 5G-integrated High-Runner Edge… Read more
NaaS emerges as challenger to legacy network models; likely to grow rapidly along with SD WAN market
Enterprises are starting to think “much more strategically” about how to support remote and hybrid workers, with as-a-service network models beginning to take over the market, IDC Analyst Brandon Butler told SDxCentral. Organizations are increasingly looking to extend enterprise-class networks to remote and hybrid workers, a concept IDC calls “the branch of one.” IDC reported that 69%… Read more
MediaTek Introduces Global Ecosystem of Wi-Fi 7 Products at CES 2023
Taiwan based MediaTek, one of the first adopters of Wi-Fi 7 [1.] technology, will be demonstrating a full ecosystem of production-ready devices featuring the next generation of wireless connectivity for the first time at CES 2023. These products are the culmination of MediaTek’s investment in Wi-Fi 7 technology, focusing on reliable and always-on connected experiences on a… Read more
Huawei reports 3rd straight quarter of revenue growth despite U.S. sanctions
Huawei Technologies Co. posted its third consecutive quarter of growth, declaring a return to normalcy after overcoming a plethora of U.S. restrictions this year. The company’s sales rose 7.2% to 191 billion yuan ($27.4 billion) in the December quarter, according to Bloomberg’s calculations off annual figures, after carving out new income streams from areas such… Read more
Industry Analysts: Important Optical Networking Trends for 2023
Optical Transceivers: Optical transceivers save space and reduce the need for additional transmitting and receiving devices because they transmit and receive information all in one device! Additionally, they are an economical, compact tool to enable networks to send information over larger distances, come in a variety of Ethernet speeds from Fast Ethernet to 100 Gigabit… Read more
Have we come full circle – from SD-WAN to SASE to SSE? MEF’s SD-WAN and SASE standards
Backgrounder – SD-WAN and SASE: A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) uses software-defined network technology, mostly to communicate over the Internet using overlay tunnels which are encrypted when destined for internal organization locations. If standard tunnel setup and configuration messages are supported by all of the network hardware vendors, SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by… Read more
ITU-T: 25 years of increasing fixed-broadband speeds over copper and fiber optic networks
by ITU News The ITU Telecommunications standardization (ITU-T) working groups on broadband access over metallic conductors (Q4/15) and optical systems for fiber access networks (Q2/15), established in 1997 (25 years ago), laid the foundations for fixed broadband and have since then facilitated the meteoric rise in access speeds. Both groups are part of ITU-T Study Group 15, which looks… Read more