Network Transformation
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Nokia has completed the UAE’s first live transport slicing deployment with du, enabling the operator to manage its network infrastructure more efficiently. -
Virgin Media O2 brought together its fixed and mobile networks to create a Converged Interconnect Network (CIN), a combined network capable of carrying both mobile and fixed traffic.
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Swisscom is working with Ericsson to offer a standalone Mobile Private Network (MPN) to provide enterprises with private, localised connectivity.
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Dell has expanded its AI for Telecom offerings, bringing new hardware support and a variety of new use case-focused solutions designed to help operators augment their edge operations using AI.
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Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country.
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Nvidia is working with SoftBank to reinvent telecom networks to make them capable of supporting AI-RAN, enabling them to run AI and 5G workloads at the same time.
Forthcoming events
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Open RAN will create a more open, flexible and adaptable network for the mobile industry according to research from CCS Insight.
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Vodafone Foundation has launched an international search for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its DreamLab smartphone app.
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Shin-Won Choi, CEO and chairman of SK networks has resigned from his positions.
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Oracle is launching a series of new cloud regions using Orange’s infrastructure in Senegal and Ivory Coast.
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HGC Global Communications (HGC) has appointed Daniel Ng as its new senior vice president of corporate business.
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Ericsson has partnered with Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) to develop private 5G-ready networks in Russia.
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The FCC has revealed it has granted 20 additional 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses to Alaskan communities.
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The industry’s main proponent of small cells has started a programme to expand the technology in enterprise and industry.
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NEXTDC has revealed it will build a data centre in Darwin, Australia’s Northern Territory.
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Amazon has started up its first Scottish windfarm, just 60km from Glasgow, where the global COP26 climate conference starts this weekend.
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National Portuguese regulator ANACOM said that the country’s delayed 5G auction has generated $657.1 million.
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Orange and Liquid Intelligent Technologies will partner to expand network reach in Africa.
