Network as Code platform launched by Nokia
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Nokia announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to give developers around the world the network software tools they need to create innovative new 5G enterprise and consumer applications faster for their customers.
Now, Nokia’s Network as Code platform with a developer portal will run on Google Cloud, enriching the developer experience v...
Standards based operator cloud demonstration at Network X
Friday, October 27, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
The CloudCO demonstration to be led by the Broadband Forum at this year’s Network X will show how network operators can unlock network efficiencies and new service delivery from a disaggregated and virtualized software-defined broadband network.
CloudCO’s service delivery automation focus is fundamental for operators to help reduce their operational costs...
Intelligent IoT Network lands from Aeris
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 by Richard Harris
Aeris, the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider has announced the next generation of its Intelligent IoT Network, a unique suite of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based capabilities that enable superior global IoT connectivity and network performance, increased security performance, and best-in-class IoT network support. The Aeris Intelligent I...
Electroneum proves there is a real utility for cryptocurrency users
Friday, September 6, 2019 by Richard Harris
Electroneum users can now top up Claro, TIM, Vivo and Oi mobile airtime and data with ETN. This is the first time 95% of a country can top up airtime and data with ETN. Brazil currently represents the fastest-growing Electroneum community. The expansion unlocks new opportunities to partner with other major corporations, retailers, and businesses.
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By 2020 you'll be watching sports with AR over 5G report says
Thursday, February 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of the world’s largest network operators plan to use augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) or a hybrid of these technologies, supported by 5G, to offer richer viewing experiences to fans, both at sports stadiums and watching at home. Promising speeds up to tens of times faster and lower latency than 4G, 5G opens up the possibilities ...
Fiber to the home deployments get a boost from iBwave
Monday, January 14, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
iBwave introduces it's newest solution helping network operators around the world to deploy FTTH networks - FiberPass.
With a strong focus on automating the design and deployment lifecycle of an FTTH project, iBwave's new FiberPass solution has already helped major operators expedite their fiber deployment initiatives.
"We've chosen...
Device API access control gets easier with new MNO tool
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
GlobalPlatform has defined a specification that enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to access certain aspects of the mobile device operating system (OS), which are by default not accessible for security reasons. The specification has received input and support from MNO industry body GSMA and device manufacturers, who recognize that MNOs need this advanced access to ...
Carriers team up to provide better mobile authentication
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Mobile users are faced with the challenge of managing dozens of difficult-to-remember passwords for many applications. Even with the best user practices, hackers can social engineer passwords from users, leaving consumers and enterprises vulnerable to identity theft, bank fraud, fraudulent purchases and data theft.To help tackle this issue, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile an...
Developing open source software defined standards
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is announcing its new Open Innovation Pipeline made possible through the aligned operations of ONF and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) as these two organizations finalize their pending merger.ON.Lab, with CORD and ONOS, successfully brought together operators, vendors and integrators to build solutions for carrier networks by leveraging...
Cambium Networks jailbreaks first wireless broadband network
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Cambium Networks has announced ePMP Elevate, a software solution allowing outdoor wireless broadband networks to gain the signature capabilities of Cambium Networks’ ePMP platform, including frequency reuse enabled by GPS Synchronization and Smart Beamforming, even on non-Cambium Networks 802.11n-based hardware. As it becomes increasingly important for wireless ne...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
New SoftwareDefined Networking Consortium Established
Thursday, July 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, has created the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Consortium to enable one-stop shopping for controller and switch interoperability, conformance and benchmark testing. The primary goal of the SDN C...
Ciena Adds New DevOps Toolkit for Virtualized Services
Saturday, May 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Ciena has added a new DevOps Toolkit to its Blue Planet network and service orchestration platform that helps companies with the creation and delivery of new on-demand, virtualized services within their SDN and NFV enabled networks.The DevOps Toolkit features a set of software development tools that can be utilized by network operators’ in-house personnel, and in collab...
New Study by University of Cambridge Show 87 Percent of Android Devices Vulnerable
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Richard Harris
A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge and published by AndroidVulnerabilities.org shows that 87% of Android devices are vulnerable to attack by malicious apps and messages. The study suggests that the reason for this high vulnerability rate is in part due to the fact that device manufacturers are not providing regular security updates. The resea...
Bango Extends Carrier Billing App Monetization Platform to New Markerts
Friday, June 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Bango has extended its carrier billing routes for app store partners in several additional markets providing added reach for the Bango Payment Platform to service mobile app monetization needs of the growing global app store economy.The Bango Platform enables one-click mobile payment, acting as a single point of integration for app stores and mobile network operators, p...
Wireless IoT Forum Created to Offer New Internet of Things Industry Association
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Wireless IoT Forum officially launched at the end of March to support and promote the creation and deployment of open standards for the Internet of Things worldwide. The Forum will support the deployment of wireless wide-area networking technologies in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. The organization will provide a place for companies to participate in t...
Top Mobile Predictions for 2015 and Beyond
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you had a crystal ball and looked at 2015 and 2016 to see what will be the driving factors for mobile what would you see? Garnter analyst Nick Jones provides his top 10 predictions in a recent report.And what where they? Drumroll please:1) Multiplatform/Multiarchitecture AD Tools2) HTML53) Advanced Mobile UX Design4) High-Precision Location Sensing5) Wearab...
Bango Dashboard Lanches Giving Developers a 3D View of Content Purchases
Thursday, February 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bango announces its latest product innovation: Bango Dashboard. This entirely new product has emerged from Bango’s analytics technology, giving Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) a three dimensional view of their subscribers’ digital content purchases, across the world’s largest app stores. MNOs increasingly provide mobile payment for app stores, using direct ope...
