News tagged: Deutsche Telekom

11 May, 2020

Killed off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31^st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of VanillaPlus turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT. (more…)

24 April, 2020

Leitstand initiative creates open source environment to bring web-scale to telcos

Network operators, integrators and software vendors have joined forces to create an open source community called Leitstand. It aims to increase the efficiency of developing, buying and running network management systems for next generation carrier networks. (more…)

03 April, 2020

Broadband Network Gateway software for disaggregated networks launched by RtBrick

RtBrick, has announced the availability of its Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) software. RtBrick’s BNG is the first use-case for its FullStack routing software, which runs on merchant-silicon hardware, transforming it into carrier IP/MPLS infrastructure. RtBrick FullStack brings web-scale, greater agility and a substantially lower cost-base to carrier networks. (more…)

18 March, 2020

GSMA Telco Edge Cloud turns to MobiledgeX to take ownership of the edge marketplace

With the recent announcement that China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Singtel, SK Telecom, Telefonica and TIM are working together, with the support of GSMA, to develop an interoperable platform to make edge compute capabilities widely and easily available, it’s clear that telecoms operators see significant potential in mobile edge computing, writes George Malim.

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03 March, 2020

MobiledgeX extends edge computing support to the enterprise with platform update

MobiledgeX, Inc. has released MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud R2.0 for the enterprise edge. This enables private and public edge cloud integration to allow developers to deploy location-specific services. (more…)

09 October, 2019

Deutsche Telekom Germany selects Netcracker for network and service automation initiative

Netcracker Technology reports it has been chosen by Deutsche Telekom Germany for its groundbreaking network and service automation initiative. (more…)

01 October, 2019

Survey of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises shows strong support for Wi-Fi 6

According to a cross-industry survey conducted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), 90% of respondents are already planning to deploy Wi-Fi 6. The respondents include personnel from a global cross-section of over 200 telecommunications service providers, (more…)

27 August, 2019

NGMN reaches a 5G milestone with recommendation of common cluster connector

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance is recommending a common RF cluster connector for early 5G deployment. NGMN’s new white paper – Recommendation for RF Cluster Connector for use in 5G NR 8T8R TDD Deployment – describes the selection process and explores the features that make a common RF cluster connector the most suitable for early 5G deployment. (more…)

09 July, 2019

The Convergence Alliance launched by 18 organisations to enable new open data economy on decentralised web

A group of leading enterprise partners, venture capitalists, technologists, start-ups and academic institutions has joined forces to use blockchain better to pioneer the next phase of the Web. (more…)

30 May, 2019

Executives and IT must collaborate to define 5G business cases, says Deutsche Telekom’s Meijer

With 5G at the centre of mobile operators’ strategies, the challenge is to avoid another cycle of intense infrastructure investment which enables the business cases of other organisations. Instead, operators need to take up a new role that monetises the enablement they provide and places them in the connected ecosystem as more than the providers of connectivity.

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