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British semiconductor researchers and businesses will have enhanced access to funding from Horizon Europe and the government, the UK announced yesterday.
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Ericsson’s 2023 report focused on its efforts to support open, programable and automated networks in light of a challenging 2023.
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Sparkle inks a deal with Kush Investments firm to a provide a virtual fibre solution in the upcoming Blue & Raman submarine cable system.
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Mavenir, the software company that is funded by the climate-change and 2020 election denying Koch family, is working with Google Cloud to make available cloud-native 5G solutions.
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Back live and in-person at this year's Capacity Middle East conference in Dubai, the keynote panel session had one message to share – its time for carriers to 'rise above the dumb pipe' and enter into the world of softwarisation.
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Cloud company Platform9 has hired Bhaskar Gorti, formerly of Oracle and Nokia, as CEO.
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Sparkle inks a deal with Kush Investments firm to a provide a virtual fibre solution in the upcoming Blue & Raman submarine cable system.
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A company run by public cloud evangelist Danielle Royston has raised US$1 billion to support the acquisition, development and cloudification of software products for the telecoms market.
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Colocation company EdgeMicro is to ally itself with Laser Light Communications, a project to connect hyperscale data centres with a software-defined mixture of fibre and laser-based satellites.
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A new project to connect hyperscale data centres with a software-defined mixture of fibre and laser-based satellites should be going ahead in the next few months.
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Cataworx, a provider of business-to-business sales automation software, and Nokia have developed an integrated solution, which enables communication service providers to provide instant quotes for optical network connectivity services, with support for dynamic pricing, and empowering their customers to trigger service fulfilment through order orchestration.
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Ian Waters, senior director of EMEA marketing at ThousandEyes writes about the big tech firms adding new strings to their bows – and why software is eating telcos
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US-based start-up EdgeQ Inc has reached the US$51million funding milestone, paving the way for it to converge 5G connectivity and AI compute onto a “system-on-a-chip”.
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TIBCO Software Inc has entered into an agreement to acquire analytics software company Information Builders, Inc (ibi).
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Nothing to do with Covid, but virtualisation of telecoms networks means that telcos are no longer locked in to a few hardware vendors. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the march of SDN and NFV
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Real estate technology company Compass has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Modus, a title and escrow software start-up.
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After 17 years at Epsilon, Jerzy Szlosarek is starting again, this time a software-defined company that aims to deliver world-class connectivity. Alan Burkitt-Gray interviews the CEO of Neutrality.one
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With ESG funds outperforming the competition in a pandemic-driven bear market, Gordon Smith, CEO of Sagent explains how to boost – and leverage – corporate sustainability
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Telecoms software company Amdocs has bought Irish 5G charging, policy and cloud company Openet for US$180 million in cash.
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Nokia announced today that it can upgrade its 4G LTE base stations to 5G using a software change.
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A three-way venture is to take ownership for Blockgraph, the industry initiative and software platform designed to create a more secure way to use aggregated and anonymised data and share information.
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Affluence Corporation is divesting its entertainment division interests to focus on 5G infrastructure and technologies.
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Enterprise software player VMware has completed the acquisition of US-based Pivotal Software for $2.7 billion.
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With a new year upon us, Capacity heard from Carl Grivner, CEO of Colt Technology Services, about his expectations for the telco sector in 2020 with new technologies and big industry shifts.
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Enghouse Systems has signed a deal to acquire US software company Dialogic Group for $52 million, further enhancing its product portfolio.
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QTS Realty Trust has deployed Megaport’s Software Defined Interconnection services in seven additional data centres.
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Following the successful acquisitions of Openwave Mobility and the Telco Solutions Convergence Creators business unit from Atos/Siemens, Enea has unveiled an end-to-end 5G data management suite, enabling interoperability between network functions in a software-defined 5G core.
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DATA4, the European colocation data centre provider, has revealed some of its hyper-connectivity plans to build 19 facilities over the next five years as it strives to become a leading operator in Europe.
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EQT Infrastructure-owned GlobalConnect has partnered with Versa Networks as it strives to become “the integrated digital infrastructure leader in Northern Europe”.
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Wipro is set to work within the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to collaborate on 5G in the global communications service provider and enterprise markets.
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South Africa’s MTN is deploying Parallel Wireless OpenRAN tech at more than 5,000 sites, bringing 2G, 3G and 4G connectivity into areas that were previously under connected.
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Macquarie Telecom has sealed an agreement to deliver VMware software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) by VeloCloud services through the Microsoft Azure marketplace.
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As part of its European expansion plans, Voxility has launched operations in Spain and deployed a point of presence (PoP) in Madrid with Interxion.
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PCCW Global has appointed Ian Horowitz as an ecosystem partnerships director for the Americas.
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PCCW Global and NAVER Business Platform (NBP) have today announced a bilateral interconnect collaboration to deliver on-demand, private global connectivity.
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A new agreement between Broadband Forum (BBF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is set to ease the path to automated and open virtualised access networks.
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PCCW Global and DCConnect have entered into a technology collaboration, enabling Console Connect and DCConnect customers to seamlessly leverage network services from either service provider.
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Epsilon has partnered with ORIS Telekom to deploy its Infiny software-defined networking (SDN) platform in Turkey.
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BT has selected Canonical, a publisher of public cloud operating system Ubuntu, to assist in its next generation 5G core by using Charmed OpenStack, an open source virtual infrastructure manager.
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Cisco has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Acacia Communications as it seeks to strengthen its switching, routing and optical networking portfolio.
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“Software is eating the world.” Marc Andreesen’s often-quoted phrase, which was originally published in 2011, is still true today.
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HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) has launched a next-generation international telco-service marketplace, powered by software-defined networking (SDN) technology.
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Trilogy Networks has selected New Continuum’s West Chicago data centre as one of its metro edge locations to serve the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Telefónica is facing investigations by the European Commission over its acquisition of KPN’s E-Plus and by the UK regulator over a network collapse in December.
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A new rebranded company, TOMIA, has launched after the successful merger of analytics firm Telarix and roaming and settlement company Starhome Mach.
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If you’re running a network on software you need to work in new ways. Alan Burkitt-Gray reports on Ericsson’s expired certificate that brought O2’s and SoftBank’s mobile networks down
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Ericsson is writing off the equivalent of $690 million as it reshapes its software business and ceases trying to sell its Revenue Manager suite.
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Operator and vendor revenues have grown by 32% in 2018 to $250 billion, new data from Synergy Research Group has found.
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TalkTalk Telecom Group has deployed Infinera’s XTM II platform into its metro aggregation network, enabling the UK telecoms provider to rapidly deliver reliable and scalable services to both its residential and business customers.
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Sterlite Tech is set to add 15 million km of fibre to its optical fibre cabling capacity, doubling it to 33 million km.
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Net1 Indonesia has sealed a partnership with Qualcomm to develop dual SIM devices that support the 450MHz network frequency and explore IoT in the country.