Artificial Intelligence (AI)

26 May, 2020

Digital transformation enabled for CSPs globally by new partners Tech Mahindra and Openet

Tech Mahindra Ltd, a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and Openet, a provider of the digital business support system (BSS) solutions, announced a global strategic partnership to enable digital transformation for customers globally.  This partnership will leverage 5G and cloud technologies to accelerate digital transformation for communication service providers (CSPs). (more…)

22 May, 2020

Telekom Slovenije and Iskratel test 5G campus network enabling smart factory

Iskratel, a European solution provider for digital transformation of industries, and Telekom Slovenije, Slovenia-based provider of ICT solutions, have conducted the first tests of the 5G network they have built together to enable the smart factory in Kranj, Slovenia. The network will use the 5G core to provide low latency, high performance and secure connectivity. (more…)

20 May, 2020

Pandemic a trigger for some enterprises to accelerate transformation, says report

More than one in three executives in both the U.S. and China are seeing COVID-19 as an impetus to digitally transform their business. So say the authors of a new report published by Alameda, California-based Wind River. (more…)

18 May, 2020

ZTE and China Mobile announce large-scale deployment of cloud-based 5G transport management and control system

ZTE Corporation, a international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, in partnership with the Guangdong Branch of China Mobile, has completed the large-scale deployment of ZTE’s intelligent cloud-based 5G transport management and control system ZENIC ONE (UME) in Guangdong province of China, so as to achieve the unified management of 150,000 PTN network elements. (more…)

14 May, 2020

Ericsson Educate: digital learning program for students launched

Now more than ever, being digitally connected is vital to maintaining a sense of normalcy during the current circumstances. Education is one critical sector particularly affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, with around 1.2 billion students and youth around the world unable to attend traditional education institutions. This has placed a huge demand for comprehensive online education programs on governments and education institutions alike. (more…)

14 May, 2020

Indosat Ooredoo selects Ericsson operations engine

Ericsson has been selected by Indonesian communications service provider Indosat Ooredoo to provide AI-powered data driven and customer-centric managed network operations through the Ericsson Operations Engine. (more…)

13 May, 2020

Netcracker offers AI-driven digital BSS/OSS to Microsoft Azure

Netcracker Technology is working with Microsoft to offer its digital BSS/OSS and Orchestration applications on Microsoft Azure. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based solution provider is collaborating with Microsoft to integrate Azure Machine Learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) services with Netcracker’s Advanced Analytics. (more…)

12 May, 2020

Airtel selects IBM and Red Hat to build open hybrid cloud network

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s integrated telcos, has selected IBM and Red Hat to build its new telco network cloud, designed to make it more efficient, flexible and future-ready to support core operations and enable new digital services. Under the agreement, Airtel will build its next generation core network, analytical tools and new consumer and enterprise services on top of this cloud platform based on open standards. (more…)

05 May, 2020

New edge computing solutions for 5G launched by IBM and Red Hat

IBM, at its Think Digital conference announced new services and solutions backed by a broad ecosystem of partners to help enterprises and telecommunications companies speed their transition to edge computing in the 5G era. This effort combines IBM’s experience and expertise in multicloud environments with Red Hat‘s open source technology, which became part of IBM last year in one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time. (more…)

30 April, 2020

5G assurance: An impossible task without network automation

5G is set to bring exciting new use cases to the table, but with it, it’ll also bring heightened complexity. And while degradations in quality of service (QoS) or quality of experience (QoE) may result in frustrated subscribers, when it comes to enterprises, just an hour of network downtime can cause a significant loss in revenue, amounting to millions of dollars. (more…)