Europe

Swedish telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson’s sales are down 25% quarter-on-quarter, and 9% year-on-year.

An increasing number of service providers are turning to Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) the software defined networking (SDN) solution, says the company.

Siemens has extended its contract with Orange Business Services to launch its global Siemens Digitalisation Network (SDN), built on SD-WAN infrastructure.

Aqua Comms, the submarine cable operator, has appointed APTelecom as its international sales partner as it develops new client markets in Asia and the US.

Akamai Technologies has made significant enhancements designed to improve website, app, and network security without compromising the performance of digital applications.

Telia Carrier has deployed a new 100G backbone point of presence (PoP) in DigiPlex’s data centre north of Stockholm in Sweden.

Keppel Data Centres has partnered with DE-CIX, which will see Keppel DC Frankfurt 1 (KDC FRA 1) offering DE-CIX premium interconnection services such as peering and dedicated cloud connections.

DNA and Cisco Jasper have partnered together to introduce a new connectivity IoT service that will create global IoT ecosystem opportunities for Finnish companies.

KPN, the Dutch telecoms company, has said that the government needs to release the 3.5GHz spectrum required for 5G services.

Zayo Group will expand its European data centre network by establishing a zColo facility, the company’s first data centre in the London metro area.

Ofcom has published the results of its 5G spectrum auction with O2 coming out on top and Three UK having spent the most.

O2 and Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, are partnering to deploy up to 300 small cells in London.

Nokia, Telia and Intel have successfully carried out an industrial trial using 5G to improve the time sensitive applications and enhance productions in manufacturing.

Vodafone UK says it has completed the first test of new 5G spectrum across an existing live network.

KDDI Europe has announced a strategic global partnership with vendor Silver Peak to launch a tiered, managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution.