Bringing an open optical network to life: tales from the field

Open optical networking (OON) is an increasingly popular networking approach where the optical terminals are decoupled from the line system, enabling operators to operate optical signals generated by transceivers from

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Fujitsu, NEC improve efficiency of base station interoperability testing for post-5G era

NEC and Fujitsu are currently conducting research and development of a technology for testing the interoperability of post-5G base stations compliant with O-RAN (open radio access network) specifications. A connectivity testing environment using

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Does AT&T’s white box strategy mean the end of telecoms vendors as we know them?

AT&T could potentially be turning the telecoms equipment industry on its head with the announcement that it is rolling out its 5G network using open-source software running on open-source hardware, all

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Wind River joins open-source initiative to accelerate telecom edge cloud deployments

The Linux Foundation’s announcement of expansions to the recently introduced Akraino Edge Stack open-source project represents a significant milestone in the journey towards the adoption of virtualised applications and services throughout telecom networks.

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It’s time for CSPs to escape the vendor relationship circle of despair

In this interview Niall Norton, the chief executive of Openet, tells George Malim, the managing editor of VanillaPlus that, as 5G and virtualisation begin to emerge, communications service providers (CSPs)

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Orange and Red Hat join forces to spearhead network virtualisation innovation

Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, and Orange, a major multinational telecom operator, are partnering together to build a modern infrastructure for an agile, responsive network aimed

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ZTE successfully verifies dynamic 5G network function deployment in 5G RAN split architecture

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has become the first to successfully complete the high-layer test of experimental wireless-network prototypes

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Rostelecom demonstrates on-demand transport services with the first multi-vendor transport SDN PoC in Russia

Rostelecom, NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced that the first proof of concept (PoC) interoperability test for transport software-defined networking (SDN) in the Russian Federation has been successfully completed. Rostelecom

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New CSP common data layer and cloud database architecture to expose both user and session activity

According to Strategy Analytics, a “major evolution” in Subscriber Data Management (SDM) is giving both Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and their partners seamless access to static and dynamic end user

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Operators see importance of identity and interoperability in unlicensed IoT networks in new WBA report

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has launched a new white paper outlining the key priorities for operators and technology vendors, and the monetisation potential for unlicensed technologies for IoT.

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