Mavenir has bought Brocade’s virtualized EPC business, putting it in competition with Affirmed, as well as other major radio access players. Mavenir said Monday that it had acquired the assets of Brocade’s vEPC business — including 22 patents — for an undisclosed sum. Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD) itself bought into the market in March 2015 with…
Vendors and operators across the UK are currently looking towards China, which is on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and is expected to become the world’s largest 5G market by 2025. A recent report from GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) revealed that after 5G networks are commercially…
Someone impersonating you to an AT&T or Verizon employee isn’t the only thing you need to worry about. Meet Signaling System 7, a hacker’s best friend. Last spring, Dena Haritos Tsamitis left a work meeting to discover she was unable to get a signal on her cellphone. Even after rebooting the device, she couldn’t get…
Last month, members of the mobile community gathered in London for the annual 5G World conference. As part of the larger London Tech Week’s headline show, TechXLR8, this conference gave attendees the chance to focus solely on 5G. Event discussions focused on upcoming and current field trials and strategies for transitioning from LTE to 5G. Attendees at this…
SailorTalk allows open sea cellular connectivity and allows modern internet of things (IoT) data transfer for all parties, using existing external communications.
Guillaume Le Mener, head of marketing and corporate development at Mavenir, discusses RCS and the recent launch of Multi-ID, which supports T-Mobile’s DIGITS, the revolutionary new technology that breaks down the limitation of one number per phone and one phone per number.
China has ambitious plans for the upcoming 5G era. During the recently concluded Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai, Asia’s largest mobile event, China Mobile, the world’s largest telecom carrier in terms of subscribers, said that it will start large-scale 5G trials in 2018 before commercially launching 5G networks in the country in 2020.
Can 5G bring about an opportunity for new players in the Radio Access Market? One company that thinks it can be just such a new entrant is perhaps a surprising name – Mavenir. Mavenir, better known for its core network and signaling solutions, recently emerged from a series of mergers and de-mergers as an end-to-end network software…
Share spectrum, and share it again, but don’t throw the baby out with it, writes Nick Johnson, the chief technology officer of ip.access.
Interoperability. It’s been touted as the key to unlocking the possibilities of 5G. So it makes sense that 3GPP is working to bake it in to the next generation specifications and groups working on virtualization – including ONAP – have embraced the idea of open standards. But despite the hype, some in the industry are warning 5G is on track to hit the same roadblocks as its predecessor.
