Digital transformation

29 July, 2021

Vianet selects DZS fibre-to-the-home solutions to deliver powerful broadband to rural Ontario

DZS, a global provider of optical and packet-based mobile transport, broadband connectivity and software defined networking solutions, announced that Vianet, a Sudbury, Ontario-based communications service provider, has selected its fibre-to-the-home technology to bring high-capacity broadband access networks to hundreds of residents of the Township of Carling, a traditionally underserved rural community in northern Ontario, Canada.

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27 July, 2021

Antin buys Pulsant from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners

Pulsant, the UK’s hybrid cloud specialists, announced that Antin Infrastructure Partners has acquired Pulsant from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners. The comnpanies have owned Pulsant since 2014. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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27 July, 2021

Virgin Media O2 selects Ericsson 5G core to power standalone network deployment

Ericsson has been selected by Virgin Media O2 to deploy cloud native, container-based dual-mode 5G Standalone Core on cloud infrastructure in the UK, paving the way for Virgin Media O2 to deliver ultra-fast connectivity to consumers and develop advanced enterprise use cases.

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23 July, 2021

Vodafone Spain acquires 2X10 Mhz of spectrum to expand 5G services

Vodafone Spain has acquired 2×10 MHz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band from the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation for €350 million (reserve price for the acquired block).

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21 July, 2021

New intelligent data management cloud on azure bolsters cloud momentum in Europe

Enterprise cloud data management specialist, Informatica will make its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) available on Microsoft Azure Germany in response to cloud customer growth across Europe. This is claimed to be the industry’s end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data management platform.

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20 July, 2021

The ‘branch of one’ and the new enterprise edge

The pandemic forced organisations everywhere to come up with rapid solutions to unforeseen challenges. In particular, says Guy Matthews, editor of NetReporter, they were tasked almost overnight with finding ways of supporting hundreds or perhaps thousands of remote workers — the so-called ‘branch of one’. This required an architecture able to extend enterprise class networks to remote and mobile employees.

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19 July, 2021

Over half of global population to use digital banking in 2026

 A new study from Juniper Research has found that 53% of the world’s population will access digital banking services in 2026; reaching over 4.2 billion digital banking users, from 2.5 billion in 2021.

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16 July, 2021

Leverage private networks to accelerate business development

The concept of private networks has been there for quite some time. Private networks are usually preferred by businesses and various types of private organisations to protect the data and information that they store and handle.

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15 July, 2021

360 Communications selects Mavenir for open RAN CBRS and packet core to bridge rural America digital divide

Mavenir announced that 360 Communications, a fixed wireless access provider serving rural areas of Oklahoma, including the Chocatown nation, has selected Mavenir as its partner for leveraging end to end Open RAN.

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14 July, 2021

Verizon Business and Mastercard partner to bring 5G to the global payments industry

Verizon Business and Mastercard announced a strategic partnership expected to drive transformational solutions for the global payments and commerce ecosystem.

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