News tagged: TIM

11 March, 2020

Initiative to advance cloud, automation and edge computing launched by NGMN Alliance

The Board of the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance has launched new activities to support the adoption of a cloud-native infrastructure for telecommunication service providers. The initiative will address hybrid cloud architecture challenges (such as edge computing) and will, says the alliance, change the industry’s network vision. The project has been highlighted as a crucial development area to further optimise and guide the telecoms industry towards the successful deployment of 5G beyond 2020. (more…)

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…)

10 July, 2019

TIM takes first commercial 5G steps in Italy with Ericsson

TIM has already gone live with commercial 5G in Rome, Turin and Naples with services for users, families, and companies. (more…)

30 November, 2018

First prototype 5G smartphone connects to Italy’s TIM network

TIM, together with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies Inc, reports it has completed the first 5G connection in Italy on TIM’s live network using the country’s first 5G prototype smartphone. (more…)

02 November, 2018

TIM, Ericsson and the City of Turin explore the impact of 5G

The public event took place at Palazzo Madama in Turin, Oct 26-27 and included demonstrations of a 5G-controlled driverless car, an environmental monitoring use case using drones, a 5G-connected robot for manufacturing as well as smart city applications powered by Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). (more…)

05 July, 2018

Video games market is worth more than music and movies combined so why aren’t CSPs launching games services?

If you happened to be one of Spotify’s investors, you’ll likely be smiling following the company’s US$27 billion debut on the US stock market. Long seen as the driving force behind the shift from purchasing music to streaming it, Spotify is one of many contemporary companies that depend on the infrastructure investments of global communications service providers (CSPs), without contributing to it. The same can be said of Netflix, currently valued at US$134 billion and growing. For CSPs, such services are a challenge, as they compete with their own services at the same time as depending utterly on their infrastructure for their success. So why should video games represent anything different, asks Javier Polo, the chief executive of PlayGiga?

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30 November, 2017

ADTRAN and TIM leverage SDN/NFV to advance the open network evolution

ADTRAN®, Inc.,, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, and TIM, announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding relating to ADTRAN’s SDN/NFV technologies and platforms for network automation in the access network segment. (more…)

17 May, 2017

Spirent collaborates with industry leaders to enable rapid service innovation in virtual networks

Spirent Communications Plc, a provider in lifecycle service assurance solutions, announced it is collaborating with Huawei, IBM, Infosys and Tech Mahindra to develop a framework for rapid service innovation in virtual networks. (more…)