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Recap of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Activity at MWC 2018
New Project and Working Groups: Along with other TIP updates, three new groups were announced at MWC 2018: Disaggregated Cell Site Gateways, CrowdCell, and Power and Connectivity. Disaggregated Cell Site Gateways An Open Optical & Packet Transport sub-group led by Vodafone and Facebook. The sub-group is focused on the definition of a next generation cell… Read more
“5G” Roundup: FCC Proposes 5G Auctions; T-Mobile & Sprint add 5G Cities; Qualcomm – 5G New Electricity & Smartphones in 2019
FCC Proposes “5G” Auctions: In an effort to accelerate “5G” development and deployment in the U.S., Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief Ajit Pai told a MWC sudience that he plans to put up for auction two portions of airwaves (frequency spectrum) this fall. Mr. Pai said he wants to take a market-focused approach to pull… Read more
IHS-Markit: SD-WAN revenue reached $444M in 2017; Aryaka wins award
by Cliff Grossner, PhD, Senior Research Director and Advisor at IHS-Markit SD-WAN (appliance + control and management software) revenue reached $147M in 4Q17, with CY17 up 3.9x over CY16. VeloCloud (acquired by VMware) led the SD-WAN market with 19% share of 4Q17 revenue, Aryaka was in second place with 17% revenue share, and Silver Peak rounded out… Read more
Microsoft & Packerland Broadband target 25/3 Mbps (DS/US) using TV White Spaces/WiFi
Microsoft’s Airband TV White Spaces initiative is a project that plans to bring broadband to 2 million rural Americans by 2022, beginning in Michigan and Wisconsin. Microsoft is partnering with Packerland Broadband (a division of CCI Systems). The companies are aiming for speeds of 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream for a fixed wireless deployment… Read more
Cignal AI: Strong 4Q-2017 Optical Equipment Growth in Asia, EMEA led by Metro WDM Gear
Cignal AI’s quarterly optical hardware report was published last week and includes results for almost all vendors in 4Q2017. Global spending on optical network equipment surged due to larger than usual seasonal growth in China and EMEA combined with continued elevated spending in rest of APAC (RoAPAC) = APAC x Japan and China. However, North America… Read more
AT&T Mobile “5G”: 1st 3 Cities in 2018 vs ITU-R WP 5D IMT 2020
AT&T announced on Tuesday three cities to get its so called “5G” mobile network this year. The three cities are: Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; and Waco, Texas. The U.S. mega carrier plans on deploying its version of “5G” over mmWave in a total of 12 cities by the end of 2018, as we previously reported. The remaining cities… Read more
Huawei 5G “Wireless to the Home” Trial with Telus in Canada + U.S. Sales?
Huawei and Canadian telco Telus will work together on a trial for providing 5G wireless connectivity to residences in Vancouver, Canada. The companies will use tested millimeter-wave technology with 800 megahertz of bandwidth on the 28-gigahertz spectrum. The end-to-end trial is based in the “5G Living Lab” — a downtown co-venture between the two companies —… Read more
Data Center, Cloud & Campus Networking Equipment + Cisco Beats
by Patrick Seitz of IBD (edited by Alan J Weissberger) AI and machine learning have crept into the computer networking gear business as hardware vendors look to add more smarts to their routers and switches to help customers better manage data traffic and solve problems. Cisco, Arista, Netgear and Extreme build a range of wired and… Read more
Moore’s law alive in the Data Center; Ethernet adapter revenue up 43% YoY
by Cliff Grossner, Senior Research Director & Advisor Cloud & Data Center Research Practice at IHS-Markit Introduction: We cannot measure Moore’s law simply in time between generations. Even though it took Intel longer than 2 years to move from 14nm to 10nm silicon, the number of transistors in their 10nm CPUs exceeded Moore’s Law expectation… Read more
C Spire – Entergy Mississippi Partnership to Build Fiber Network along 5 routes
U.S. service provider C Spire today announced a partnership with electric utility Entergy Mississippi which aims to bring more than 300 miles of fiber to remote areas of Mississippi. C Spire will build and own the network, with Entergy contributing construction costs, according to C Spire Vice President of Government Relations Ben Moncrief in an interview with Telecompetitor…. Read more