Steve Jarrett, Global Head of Data and AI at Orange, talks about the operator’s ambitious network automation strategy, timing and progress.

The operator says the transport domain orchestrator (TDO) is an important step in Vodafone’s evolving network strategy.

SD-WAN is designed to allow firms of all sizes to improve application and user experience and flexibilty at less cost by using a hybrid network.

By Malik Saadi, Vice President, Strategic Technologies, ABI Research

VMware says its Telco Cloud Platform RAN extends the benefits of network disaggregation and virtualization from the core to the RAN.

Deutsche Telekom’s MobiledgeX is experimenting with Anthos as part of its mission to help operators build their own edge clouds.

The first site is at Faenza (pictured) in the province of Ravenna which is better known for its majolica-ware glazed earthenware pottery.

Never mind that we don’t know if operators will succeed at monetising 5G or what 6G is.

The US company is to open a Development Centre just down the road from Vodafone’s OpenRAN Lab announced yesterday.

Vodafone has opened the company’s first OpenRAN Test and Integration Lab at its Newbury technology campus, in the UK.

The operator says it has converted 1,000 antennas to “full 5G”, to offer lower latency and network slicing.

The chip maker is working on an individual basis with Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Mavenir, Radisys and Wind River to develop solutions for its NVIDIA AI-on-5G platform.

Growth of virtual network functions (VNFs) will be driven by virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE).

Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière, Deputy CEO Europe at Orange, talks to Annie Turner about her local and group priorities, converged networks, cloud strategy, AI and more.

The two have signed a five-year deal to upgrade Alstom’s infrastructure to being cloud based.

Dublin-based AdaptiveMobile Security disclosed details of what it says is a major security vulnerability that threatens operators and their enterprise customers.

The aim is to develop a blueprint for mobile broadband and Open RAN based on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP).

TelcoDR, a public cloud transformation specialist, has acquired what was Ericsson’s floorspace to become one of the largest exhibitors at MWC Barcelona 2021.

The German operator has carried out a video call in a 5G-only environment.

The new group’s aim is to make the networks accessible for a broad range of use cases and customers.