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Ciena and TELUS demo 800Gbps fiber optic transmission over 970km link from Toronto to Quebec City; Ciena Earnings & Guidance
Ciena claims to have achieved a worldwide transmission record of 800 Gbps with TELUS, over a record-breaking 971.2km distance. Teams from both organizations worked together and turned up an 800G wavelength from Toronto to Quebec City. TELUS is one of the early 800 Gbps technology adopters who is in the process of augmenting their… Read more
Extended-range 5G NR data call over mmWave completed; Ericsson & Qualcomm test 5G SA Carrier Aggregation
Qualcomm Technologies, Casa Systems and Ericsson announced that the companies successfully completed what they call the world’s first extended-range 5G NR data call over mmWave. The extended range data call was completed in Regional Victoria, Australia on 20 June, achieving a farthest-ever connection of 3.8 kilometers (km). This so called “breakthrough” from Qualcomm Technologies, Casa… Read more
Dish Network: 5G O-RAN compliant, multi-vendor network; Boost and Ting on board
5G O-RAN Network Progress, but no deployment schedule: Dish Network President & CEO W. Erik Carlson said on Friday’s earnings call that the company was making progress in “building the nation’s first O-RAN compliant 5G network and since the last call we’ve named several key vendors including Altiostar, OpenRAN, Mavenir, Fujitsu, and VMware.” However, the… Read more
T-Mobile shutters Sprint’s 5G network; OpenSignal 5G User Experience report highlights
As expected following the April 1st close of T-Mobile’s acquisition, Sprint’s 5G network (which uses 2.5GHz mid-band spectrum) has been deactivated while the “new T-Mobile” works to re-deploy it across its own network. The integration of the Sprint mid-band spectrum is a key part of T-Mobile’s 5G strategy, which aims to combine low-band 600MHz spectrum… Read more
Opinion: How virtualization and open source are upending the entire telecom industry
Article below written by Liliane Offredo-Zreik and Dr. Mark H Mortensen of ACG Research [Note that the IEEE Techblog content manager (since April 2009) does not agree with the theme of this article. We believe that the only really big customers of virtualization and open source hardware/software are the largest tier 1 telcos (like AT&T,… Read more
Ultra Oxymoron: GSMA teams up with O-RAN Alliance without liaison with 3GPP or ITU
The GSMA and O-RAN Alliance are cooperating to accelerate the adoption of Open Radio Access Network (RAN) products and solutions that take advantage of new open virtualized architectures, software and hardware. The organizations will work together to harmonize the open networking ecosystem and agree on an industry roadmap for network solutions, thereby making access networks… Read more
Grand View Research: Dark Fiber Networks – Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis
Executive Summary The global dark (unlit) fiber network [1.] market size is estimated to reach $11.22 billion by 2027, according to the new report by Grand View Research, Inc. That market is anticipated to expand at a 12% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the forecast period. Note 1. In fiber-optic communications, fiber optic cables that… Read more
U.S. Government on 5G Integrated and Open Networks + ATIS on U.S. 6G Leadership
In a speech he was scheduled to deliver (but didn’t) Thursday at a Global CTO Roundtable on 5G Integrated and Open Networks (ION), U.S. Attorney General William Barr wrote (bold font added): The United States and our partners are in an urgent race against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to develop and build 5G infrastructure… Read more
Altiostar testing O-RAN Compliant 5G Massive MIMO with NEC and Rakuten Mobile
Altiostar announced testing of massive MIMO 5G over a virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) in collaboration with NEC and Rakuten Mobile. The tests aim to ensure interoperability of multi-vendor systems based on the open RAN specifications from the O-RAN alliance. Open RAN Layered Architecture from the O-RAN Alliance ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Altiostar is integrating the O-RAN Distributed… Read more
U.S. Government Attempts to Strangle Huawei; China-U.S. Trade War likely to Accelerate into HYPER-DRIVE mode
On Friday, the U.S. government said it would impose export restrictions designed to cut off Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. from overseas suppliers, threatening to ignite a new round of U.S.-China trade tensions. The U.S. Commerce Department said its new sanctions would “narrowly and strategically target Huawei’s acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product… Read more