April 7, 2021 — EKINOPS (Euronext Paris – FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading supplier of optical transport and enterprise connectivity solutions, today announces it has been selected by TELUS, a world-leading communications and information technology company, to deploy network function…
Dish plans to build a standalone 5G network are moving ahead, as the company today announced two key O-RAN vendors. The company said it will use radio units (Rus) from Fujitsu and cloud-native Open vRAN software from Altiostar Networks. The…
Technology giant Microsoft said today that it plans to acquire communications software company Metaswitch. Microsoft sees opportunity for its Azure cloud platform in the communications service provider market, as a company executive explains in a blog post. “The convergence of…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Windstream Enterprise (WE), a managed communications service provider, has been recognized as the “2019 SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year – North America” by MEF, the prestigious nonprofit international telecom industry consortium. The MEF Awards program is the largest…
Telecom equipment and software provider Ribbon Communications Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire, through a merger, ECI Telecom Group Ltd . (“ECI”), a provider of end-to-end packet-optical transport and SDN/NFV solutions for service providers, enterprises, and data center…
A central office pod, or CO pod, approach could reduce capital expenditures 40% and reduce operational expenditures 25%, according to a new report from management consulting firm Arthur D. Little. A CO pod approach involves using white box programmable switches…
AT&T is making progress on its plan to use software controlled generic hardware devices, also known as white boxes, in its 5G wireless network core. In a blog post this week, AT&T Chief Technology Officer and President of AT&T Labs…
A new wireless testbed in Salt Lake City uses an open programmable approach, with the goal of making it easier for academic and industry researchers to develop new antennas, to experiment with network slicing and to conduct other research in…
New 10GB optical networking hardware from Cincinnati Bell unit CBTS, launched today, aims to reduce the cost and complexity of broadband deployment. The offering is one example of broader CBTS efforts to give network operators a new level of flexibility…
Spectrum Enterprise, part of Charter Communications, unveiled the nationwide availability of its Managed SD-WAN service yesterday. Spectrum Enterprise claims a level of differentiation over competing SD-WAN solutions is an integration of SD-WAN and Ethernet with their solution. The Managed SD-WAN…
The telecom industry has a new technology term to add to its lexicon, as news today from AT&T illustrates. The carrier said it will work with open source infrastructure developer Mirantis on Kubernetes-controlled infrastructure that will underlie AT&T’s 5G network….
AT&T made significant announcements related to the virtualization of its network at the Open Networking Foundation Connect conference this week in Santa Clara. The carrier said that it is going into production mode on the AT&T white box router, of…
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