Several more prominent members of the communications industry have joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project, which is leading a swelling parade toward a harmonized approach to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network-Function Virtualization (NFV). Like existing members, the new participants in ONAP are a mix of vendors and Communications Service Providers (CSPs), including Accenture,…
Companies like Baicells, SpiderCloud Wireless, ip.access and others are working to evolve multi-carrier small cells beyond just customized housing to true, integrated multi-carrier support.
Three reasons T-Mobile’s new DIGITS will change the way we use mobile in our lives – RCR Wireless Susan Welsh de Grimaldo of Strategy Analytics wrote in RCR Wireless about the three reasons why Digits will change the way we use mobile. Mobile calling is in dire need of a platform that brings it into the 21st…
Continuing the Un-carrier’s summer celebration with a second announcement, today, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) Chief Operating Officer Mike Sievert revealed in a video blog that DIGITS is launching Wednesday, May 31. DIGITS is a revolutionary new technology that breaks down the limitation of one number per phone and one phone per number. On May 31, every T-Mobile customer’s…
ip.access, the small cells pioneer since 2002, today announced innovations to the company’s Viper2020 cloud based access platform.
One major vending machine owner has asked a mobile operator to provide the connectivity for all its vending machines once its has embedded the NB-IoT modules.
Earlier this month, the German-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that criminal hackers in Germany completed a two-step attack on German bank accounts in January, successfully routing money from bank customers into their own accounts. But this wasn’t just another data breach – this was a Signaling System 7 (SS7) security breach, which many believed was low risk….
Learn how ip.access and Baicells are addressing the need for multi-carrier small cells.
Mavenir is in the midst of a reinvention. The company, which makes software to help operators deliver IP-based services like voice, video, and messaging over their LTE networks, is now working on a software-based extensible Radio Access Network (xRAN) architecture that could make hardware-based RAN a thing of the past. Mavenir has been in quite a…
In a brief discussion at MWC 2017, Heavy Reading analyst Adi Kishore talks to Pardeep Kohli, CEO, Mavenir Systems about the creation of the new Mavenir and some of the key challenges facing operators in today’s market. A key theme of the discussion centers around operator need for software-only, virtualized solutions and how they will need to adapt to capitalize on the benefits of IoT and 5G.
