Telefónica shifts its priorities and seeks to sell assets
Warning that its current telco business is "close to being exhausted," Telefónica announced a major restructuring that will see it divest from most of its markets in Latin America and...
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GTT looks to sell subsea cables and European fiber network
GTT Communications has retained Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs as financial advisors in connection with the potential sale of the Infrastructure Division, which includes its terrestrial pan-European fiber network, subsea...
T-Systems launches its Edge Computing platform
Deutsche Telekom'a T-Systems division introduced EdgAir - its low-latency platform for secure and powerful edge computing. EdgAIR, which is based on OpenStack, is an on-prem solution designed to be like...
Etisalat tests Huawei’s liquid-crystal-on-silicon optical cross-connect
Etisalat, the UAE-based telecommunications services provider, completed the first trial of Huawei's compact all-optical cross-connect (OXC) for transport networks. Huawei's OptiXtrans series OSN 9800 P32C is a high-speed optical switch...
Panasonic sells its semiconductor group to Taiwan’s Nuvoton
Panasonic Corporation will transfer its semiconductor business to Taiwan-based Nuvoton Technology, a division of Winbond, in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed. Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions, located in Nagaokakyo...
Orange renews managed services contract with Ericsson in 5 countries
Orange has renewed a managed services contract with Ericsson in five European countries. Under the three-year contract, that can be extended to five years, Ericsson will provide a fully managed...
BICS doubles footprint in Japan for 2020 Tokyo Games
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games, BICS announced a major upgrade and expansion of its backbone in Japan, increasing capacity tenfold to support the expected growing demand for roaming and...
SK Telecom selects Ericsson’s Cloud Packet Core
Ericsson announced a new agreement with SK Telecom to deliver a Cloud Packet Core for the carrier's 5G network. Ericsson’s Cloud Packet Core helps service providers to migrate to 5G...
Dell’Oro: 5G RAN spending on the rise
Surging 5G NR demand propelled the RAN market in 3Q 2019 to a fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year (Y/Y) growth for the first time in over a decade, according to...
FCC’s Chief Engineer to retire
Julius Knapp, Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC, will retire on January 3, 2020, after more than 45 years at the Commission. Chairman Pai issued...
Microsoft and AT&T preview Network Edge Compute
Microsoft and AT&T announced select preview availability for Network Edge Compute (NEC) technology, which weaves Microsoft Azure cloud services into AT&T network edge locations closer to customers. NEC will initially...
Qualcomm and Siemens test 5G private standalone in 3.7-3.8GHz band
by Benedict Chua, Assistant Editor Qualcomm and Siemens conducted a joint proof-of-concept project at the Siemens Automotive Test Center in Nuremberg, Germany that demonstrated the first private 5G standalone (SA)...
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Aporeto for microsegmentation tech
Palo Alto Networks agreed to acquire Aporeto, a start-up specializing in machine identity-based microsegmentation technology, for approximately $150 million in cash. Aporeto identifies workloads and applies microsegmentation across all infrastructures,...
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