Speciality Products Experience Lab for structured cabling set up in India by Sterlite Tech

Sterlite Tech, a global data network solutions company, has established a Speciality Products Experience Lab (SPEL) in Silvassa, to focus on end-to-end connectivity architecture solutions for global telcos, ISPs, cloud companies and data centres.

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Siemens AG extends contract with Orange Business Services for global SD-WAN infrastructure to support its digital transformation

Siemens AG, a global electronics and electrical engineering company, has extended its contract with Orange Business Services for a global “Siemens Digitalisation Network” (SDN) built on an SD-WAN infrastructure, connecting 1,500 sites in 94 countries. The increased performance of its communications infrastructure will enable Siemens to take full advantage of further digitalisation to improve its Industry 4.0

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Interview with Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas

As Mobile World Congress in Barcelona draws near again, you know that 5G will be on people’s lips. So Jeremy Cowan of IoT-Now.com asked Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas to shed some light on what the advent of 5G will mean to all of us.

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Interdigital announces successful demonstration of 5G ready mmW wireless crosshaul transport

InterDigital, Inc., a mobile technology research and development company, announced the successful trial and evaluation of the company’s millimeter wave (mmW) EdgeLink™ 60GHz solution and Fast-Forward 70GHz solution that meets new 5G transport requirements as defined by the various 5G standardisation groups

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IoT changing the network’s edge – Part 2

In the Part 1 of the article, George Mulhern stated that Software-defined Networking (SDN) is the biggest paradigm shift in enterprise networking, possibly since the Internet, and that one of its most prominent changes is the transformation of the Wide Area Network (WAN).

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Is 5G on a train to nowhere?

Just this week, says Robin Kent of Adax, I was on a train from Frankfurt to Nuremburg in Germany attempting in vain to get some work done.

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Orange launches Easy Go Network internationally to speed network as a service for businesses

Businesses are looking for smarter and more flexible networks to support their digital transformation initiatives, stimulated by the trend for cloud, mobile, big data and the internet of things (IoT).

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Red Hat and Ericsson join forces to drive IoT, 5G and other next-generation solutions

Red Hat, Inc, the provider of open source solutions and Ericsson share a common belief in the power of open source to transform the ICT (information and communications technology) market.

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Software-defined WLANs do IoT

At the beginning of the decade the mobile enterprise was a hot topic, writes Bob Emmerson. Mobilising applications and processes had and still have the proven ability to: boost productivity by capturing data at source; enable the delivery of enhanced services,

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Intranets of Things to be enabled by containerised public and private network infrastructure

Quortus and Expeto are co-operating to speed the deployment of innovative communications services by wireless internet service providers (WISPs), mobile and virtual network operators (MNOs and MVNOs), and Internet of Things (IoT) product or service providers.

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Huawei and ABB sign MoU on cooperation to drive industries towards fully connected era

Huawei has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation with ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies.

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Weightless-P hardware and Weightless Ignition Pack launched at CTIA

The Weightless SIG announced the availability of Weightless-P hardware and the pre-launch of a Weightless-P Software Development Kit.

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Huawei unveils its cloud strategy of enabling an ‘Intelligent World’ with ecosystem partners

More than 20,000 ICT industry leaders and experts from over 120 countries and regions gathered in Shanghai for the first HUAWEI CONNECT, Huawei’s largest-ever integrated conference for the global ICT ecosystem.

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Nuage Networks and Accelerite collaborate to provide CloudPlatform for private and hybrid clouds

Accelerite, has announced that Nuage Networks, the Nokia venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, has become an Accelerite CloudPlatform Technology Partner. The Nuage Networks Virtualised Services Platform (VSP) platform is certified for the Accelerite CloudPlatform.

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Cloud-scale DevOps powered by new Red Hat Cloud Suite and OpenStack Platform 8

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8. This is designed to bridge the gap between development and operations teams at the scale of cloud computing.

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Playing it for laughs: Huawei’s CEO meets analyst questions head on with wit and candour

Shenzhen, China — Eric Xu, the rotating CEO of Huawei, China’s largest telecom equipment and services provider, isn’t like most chief execs. Not only was he happy to take questions from an international posse of 500 communications analysts and media, he did it unscripted and with a strong sense of humour.

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