Google Cloud and Nokia strike a five-year cloud deal where Nokia plans to fully migrate its on-premise IT infrastructure to Google Cloud. This is a significant telecom win for Google and reaffirms the trend of the major cloud players’ focusing on industry verticals.
NASA Awards Nokia $14.1 Million to Deploy 4G Network on the Moon
NASA awards Nokia $14.1 million to deploy 4G Network on the moon as part of its Tipping Point lunar initiatives to establish human occupancy for scientific experiments on the moon.
Report: Huawei and Chinese Government Allegedly Working Together to Undermine 4G, 5G Network Equipment Competitors in Key Markets
Huawei’s dominant position as the leading network solution provider in terms of market share is very much premised on the fact that, with the subsidies they are receiving from the Chinese state, they can sell their hardware equipment at a “ridiculously low price point.”
Mavenir Buys ip.access to Attain Multi-G Portfolio
Mavenir’s acquisition of ip.access enables the company to exploit geopolitical shifts in key markets such as India, UK, and parts of Europe to advance its overall mobile ecosystem proposition, particularly in areas like multi-G OpenRAN and small cells. Moreover, Mavenir gains swift inroads into the enterprise private network and nontraditional network realms, further boosting its influence across the mobile industry. Now rivals will need to respond directly to Manevir’s purchase of ip.access.
MATRIXX Software Provides Cloud Native Keys to Innovative 5G Charging
MATRIXX is gaining a time-to-market advantage in capturing mind share among CSPs during the early stages of their cloud native charging implementations through the latest cloud native enhancements to MATRIXX Digital Commerce. At least rivals will now need to stress their portfolio development goals in supporting CNCF graduated projects such as Prometheus and Fluentd to lessen MATRIXX’s ability to gain a differentiation edge. Now MATRIXX must show it can translate early mind share gains into tangible market share gains against foes in the 5G CCS and BSS realms.
Nokia Zeroes in on Boosting 5G Operations Efficiency
Nokia’s Cognitive SON targets aiding service providers in their quest to efficiently manage 5G complexity through ML-powered low-touch automation and real-time resolution of operations problems. Now Nokia must show its well-differentiated SON solution will become a difference maker in accelerating CSP 5G builds as well as bolstering the company’s 5G competitive outcomes.
ADTRAN Goes FWA to Broaden Residential Broadband Mass Appeal
ADTRAN’s new MetNet 60GHz solution is providing exactly what CSPs require to push residential broadband to their most challenging to serve customers and environments. ADTRAN’s MetNet 60 GHz solution is not gated by the underlying physical infrastructure, which has limited the deployment range of fixed access broadband technologies like FTTH. Fixed wireless services are becoming an invaluable compliment to fiber and fiber extension networks in terms of reaching any potential residential or business customer with gigabit capable services, no matter where they are located.
ONF Preps SD-RAN for Open Source 5G Prime Time
ONF’s new SD-RAN project is a work in progress after a flourishing start. Founding members, including especially major operators AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, and NTT, need to demonstrate their mobile ecosystem clout and pull through more support from key industry players such as Open RAN and 5G chipset suppliers. Overall ONF has the ecosystem pull and open source pedigree required to make the SD-RAN project a long-term success.
ICYMI: 3GPP’s 5G NR Release 16’s 9 Most Critical Improvements to 5G
What we see with Release 16, in addition to improvements to previous fundamental standards, is a shift towards the next market for 5G technologies: industrial networks and applications. That is why, MIMO and IAB improvements aside, private networks, unlicensed spectrum, multi-TRP architecture, high-precision device positioning, efficient new power-saving protocols, and even multicasting between vehicles, constitute the lion’s share of projects in this release.
The ADTRAN SD-Access Portfolio Showcases its German and French Connections
ADTRAN’s recent string of major operator wins in Germany and France fortifies its ability to drive more operator consideration of its SD-Access portfolio, particularly in fulfilling the distinct fixed access needs of operators in Europe. ADTRAN is now better positioned to compete against Huawei, ZTE, and Nokia in the tightly contested European fixed access market.