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Vodafone Picks Juniper’s SD-WAN for Its Enterprise Services
Vodafone said Juniper’s Contrail Service Orchestrator is a key part of the platform because it provides customers with a self-service portal.
T-Mobile Preps for Sprint Merger by Hiring CenturyLink’s Sunit Patel
Patel oversaw CenturyLink’s integration with Level 3 Communications and has experience with many large acquisitions.
Intel Says Silicon Photonics Transceivers Will Be a 5G Fronthaul Savior
Originally developed for the data center, silicon photonics can pump lots of data from the tower to the baseband unit or central office.
CenturyLink Builds a Global SD-WAN Footprint
The company’s SD-WAN network now is available in 30 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
T-Mobile’s Post-Merger 5G Plans Include Home Broadband
The Sprint T-Mobile combo will have the capacity and coverage to offer fixed 5G wireless to homes in more than 50 percent of the U.S.
S&P Overhaul Will Impact Facebook, Twitter, and Google
By removing Alphabet and Facebook from the technology index, investors will be more likely to pay attention to small tech companies like Cisco, Intel, and Oracle.
Qualcomm Sets Its Sights on Edge Computing, IoT and 5G
The chip maker is retooling its server business to focus on edge computing and is pushing hard on new growth areas like IoT and 5G.
NFV Equipment and Software to Top $48B by 2023, Ovum Says
Although Tier 1 operators are leading the way with NFV, the research firm says that it believes smaller operators will begin to see the benefits as well.
Nokia Will Slash 500 Jobs in Illinois by Year-End
The job cuts will impact employees of the former Motorola Solutions infrastructure business that Nokia purchased in 2011.
Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung Score Again With 5G
South Korean operator SK Telecom picked these three equipment vendors for its 5G deployment. The company plans to launch 5G in the first half of 2019.
Cisco’s Open vRAN Alliance Says Its End-to-End System Is Ready to Roll
The Open vRAN Alliance assembled products from different vendors to create an open vRAN system that can take the place of single-vendor RAN solution.
Cisco Helped Bring the Brains to T-Mobile’s Network
T-Mobile is using Cisco’s virtualized packet core throughout its network today and will use it as it upgrades to a 5G packet core.
Verizon to Launch Pre-Standard 5G in Four Markets on October 1st
When it launches, the operator will be the first service provider globally to commercially launch 5G. However, it is using its own proprietary pre-standard 5G gear.
Ericsson Scores $3.5 Billion Deal with T-Mobile for 5G Gear
This is T-Mobile's second 5G equipment deal in two months. Ericsson is a long-time partner to T-Mobile and supplied some of the operator's LTE network equipment.
Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson Score AT&T 5G Contracts
For Samsung, winning AT&T’s business is another feather in its cap. The vendor has been gaining more business with U.S. operators.
AT&T Changes Its Tune on 5G Fixed Wireless
The operator will use Samsung and CommScope gear in the 3.5 GHz CBRS spectrum band to deliver fixed wireless. It will start with LTE and migrate to 5G.
Verizon Says First 5G Markets Will Offer ‘White Glove’ Experience
The company says its four 5G launch markets will be used to refine its customer experience and stress-test the network.
Ericsson, Huawei Are Winners in the EPC Market, Dell’Oro Study Says
LTE growth coupled with the early stages of 5G deployments fueled the evolved packet core market in the second quarter of the year.
Cisco SVP Romanski Joins PE Firm Siris Capital
Romanski is the third high-level Cisco executive to leave the company in the past month.
Ericsson Bypasses Cisco, Partners With Juniper on Optical Transport
Cisco’s optical transport products overlap with Ericsson making Juniper the better partner.