Regulatory dogmatism about having four mobile networks per country means Europe's telcos rarely get to merge. On the rare occasions they do, operators must usually relinquish spectrum or other assets as a condition of the deal. But this kind of "structural" remedy will almost certainly not be imposed on Vodafo...
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Nokia has been selected by Cloudbear, a growing hosting services provider in the Netherlands, to implement its state-of-the-art data center networking infrastructure. This complete data center deployment is implemented on the Kuberbetes-based CBWS hosting environment. Nokia's deployment includes an ultra-relia...
Sluggish Telecom Market Growth Prompts Operators to Become Full-Stack Technology Suppliers, According to IDC
Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay TV services will reach $1,544 billion in 2024, representing an increase of 2.4% year-on-year....
Google and three Australian digital infrastructure companies, Vocus, NextDC and Subco, announced on Tuesday that they have entered into a strategic partnership to build a new 42,500km submarine cable network called Australia Connect, which will significantly increase capacity on routes between Australia, Southeast Asia...
Nokia wins new deal with Deutsche Telekom to roll out large-scale commercial O-RAN network in Germany
Nokia today announced that it has been awarded more than 3,000 sites by Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) to support the operator's multi-vendor Open RAN network scale-up in Germany. The deal, which includes Fujitsu, covers a mass rollout of O-RAN-compliant technology with commercial deployment already underway in the Neubr...
Nokia today announced that analysts at ABI Research have ranked the company as the overall leader and top innovator in a competitive study on telco API platforms for internal exposure within network and partner ecosystems. ...
Nokia today announced that it has successfully completed a network slicing trial with du, the leading telecom and digital services provider. This trial is the UAE's first live transport slicing deployment which will allow the service provider to operate a variety of network services that cater to different needs wh...
Elisa Oyj Launches World's First 800ZR Coherent Services with Juniper Networks, Pioneering Finland's Mobile and Fiber Infrastructure
Juniper Networks ? (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, and Finnish telecom and digital service provider Elisa Oyj today announced the world's first deployment of 800Gbps Ethernet services over 800ZR coherent transceivers. Elisa is deploying 800Gbps technology within its backbone network, enhanci...
HGC selects Ciena Technology to Build a Premium Data Center-to-Data Center Connectivity Service in the Philippines
To drive digital transformation in the Philippines, HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC), a fully-fledged ICT service provider and network operator with extensive global coverage, is working with Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) to deploy cutting-edge technology for HGC's Data Center Interconnect (DCI) service. This initiativ...
Adtran and Arcadiz today announced that Infrabel, Belgium's national railway infrastructure company, has deployed the FSP 3000 S-Flex? to boost the capacity of its storage network. Providing native 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel (64GFC) transmission over WDM, the technology ensures reliable, scalable connectivity with sign...
TTA and O-RAN ALLIANCE Signed Agreement to Cooperate on Standardization of Open RAN Technology
TTA and O-RAN ALLIANCE have officially announced the signing of a Cooperation Agreement (CA) that enables the adoption of O-RAN ALLIANCE specifications to TTA standards....
AI, and specifically Generative AI with its ability for predictive analytics, is becoming a critical component of digital transformation and future business growth in almost all industries. Enterprise-grade data networks such as Verizon's will be instrumental in these processes, and Verizon continues to advance its...
Ekinops (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading optical transport and network access specialist, is delivering its Ekinops360 optical transport platform to Whidbey Telecom, a rural service provider based in Washington state, to increase the capacity of its middle mile transport network. ...
Telkomsel announced on Thursday that it will deploy an AI-powered network solution to optimize the performance of its 4G/LTE services, following a successful trial of the technology at over 90 sites in Makassar and Kendari. ...
Nokia launches share buyback program to offset the dilutive effect of the Infinera acquisition
In line with the announcement made on 27 June 2024, Nokia Corporation has today decided to launch a share buyback program to offset the dilutive effect of issuing new shares to the shareholders of Infinera Corporation and from Infinera's existing share-based incentives. The daily buyback volume is expected to incre...
Nokia has announced a five-year expansion of its multi-year agreement to supply Microsoft Azure with datacenter routers and switches. Nokia's data center networking portfolio will enhance the scalability and reliability of Azure datacenters around the world. The partnership will grow Nokia's global footprint to...
Virgin Media O2 switches on Converged Interconnected Network to streamline the delivery of fixed and mobile services
Virgin Media O2 has successfully brought together its fixed and mobile networks to create a Converged Interconnect Network (CIN) - a new network built to carry both mobile and fixed traffic. Designed with the future in mind, the next-generation CIN is scalable and ready to meet the evolving needs of consumers and ...
Adtran and Dell Technologies today announced a strategic collaboration to meet the growing AI networking needs of the US federal government. Adtran is providing a comprehensive range of optical, packet and software networking solutions, which are being integrated with Dell's AI-driven infrastructure to accelerate A...
Nokia Was Only Vendor to Increase Revenues Year-over-Year in the Quarter...
VIAVI selected by TDC NET to Enable Network Transformation with Advanced, End-to-End Automated Monitoring Across Complex Domains
VIAVI has selected NITRO? AIOps for end-to-end network monitoring that continuously observes, analyzes, and manages network performance across multiple domains....