Category: Hardware

April 14, 2023

Environmental science and technology researchers alike are ardently studying the voracious energy demands and carbon emissions of machine learning and artificial intelligence, searching for “green AI.” Efforts like Digital Cleanup Day urge the average user to tidy up their overflowing […]

March 30, 2023

Corning has officially opened its new fiber cable facility in Hickory, North Carolina, which will significantly expand the company’s capacity to provide fiber for broadband deployment. The Trivium campus facility consists of two large buildings, with the first building already […]

March 6, 2023

China Tower ended 2022 with a total of 2.05 million towers under management, after a new addition of 17,000 sites during the full year. In a release, the company said that total tower tenants rose by 102,000 in the year […]

March 6, 2023

The White House is pondering more extensive U.S. limitations on the sale of chips and chip-making equipment to Chinese companies, and those could have substantial impacts on Nvidia’s ability to sell to Huawei and a lesser impact on Qualcomm, according […]

February 17, 2023

Nokia announced the launch of its sixth-generation super-coherent photonic service engine, the PSE-6s, which is capable of reducing network power consumption by 60 percent. In addition to improving energy efficiency, network operators need to add massive capacity in response to […]

February 15, 2023

Qualcomm today gave a first look at its new Snapdragon X75 Modem/RF System that is being positioned as providing device OEMs an evolutionary path forward to 3GPP Rel. 18 compatibility. Rel. 18 is not yet finalized—expect substantial completion of the […]

February 10, 2023

Chinese vendor ZTE said its 5G New Radio (NR) gNodeB product has been approved under Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)’s NESAS (network equipment security assurance scheme) certification program. ZTE noted that NESAS Cybersecurity Certification Scheme – German Implementation […]

February 8, 2023

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF System chipset, a 5G NR-Light — or reduced capability (RedCap) — modem designed for lower-cost, smaller form-factor devices. According to the vendor, this is the first chipset of its kind and can […]

January 20, 2023

Rohde & Schwarz has launched a new, single-box performance vector tester for signal generation and analysis in sub-6 GHz (Frequency Range 1) spectrum for testing base stations and small cells as well as radio frequency components. The new R&S PVT360A […]

January 4, 2023

In 2022, the U.S. government allocated an unprecedented $42.45 billion toward closing the country’s persistent digital divide through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Adding in the $20.4 billion in the Rural Development Opportunity Fund from 2021, and the […]

December 27, 2022

Ericsson and Optus have created a unique RAN solution leveraging lightweight, new generation radios and basebands which reduce the consumption of energy. The radios and baseband used can achieve savings up to 25% depending on equipment being used following an […]

November 30, 2022

A new 5G demonstration at a lab in Sydney has used a laser to deliver a 5G backhaul link with 10 Gbps capacity, using commercial equipment from a startup as well as Open RAN vendor Mavenir. Venture-backed, Singapore-based start-up Transcelestial […]

November 28, 2022

If you like survey data, here’s an interesting fact for you. Every year since 2000, when I started surveying enterprises on the question, the most important factor driving investment and change in enterprise networks was the data center. It’s like […]

November 8, 2022

Panduit has extended the fibre capabilities of OneMode, its 1U rack mounted device that offers a passive media converter to leverage legacy multimode fibre backbone (100Mbps – 1Gbps) and significantly increases bandwidth to 10Gbps, 50Gbps and up to 100Gbps across […]

October 19, 2022

Not a single server cable will require manual tracing during installation, network refreshes and troubleshooting when identified with reliable Brady labels for error-free data centre intervention. Digitisation accelerates across many industries, and data centre capacity is keeping pace. Increasing needs […]

October 11, 2022

At a recent Automotive Investor Day event in New York City, Qualcomm executives updated the company’s automotive design win pipeline to $30 billion, and took a deep dive into how the digitalization of vehicles is a major growth engine for […]

October 11, 2022

MediaTek says its newest chipset, called the Dimensity 1080 (D1080), offers 5G smartphones a “nice performance bump and significantly upgraded camera features.” When compared to its predecessor, the Dimensity 920, the 1080, sports an upgraded octa-core CPU with two Arm […]

October 7, 2022

Vodafone displays its technology leadership in the broadband market, as the UK’s largest full-fibre provider unveils its new market-leading Pro II home broadband packages. Vodafone Pro II plans come with the new Vodafone Ultra Hub and Super WiFi 6E Booster […]

October 7, 2022

The CAT-1 LTE modem was initially defined in 2008 as a low-cost, low-power alternative to connect IoT devices that needed to transfer limited amounts of data. However, vendors and network providers at that time focused on higher throughput. The actual […]

October 5, 2022

SolidRun, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance System on Module (SOM) solutions, Single Board Computers (SBC) and network edge solutions, announced SolidNET, a line of Arm-based software-defined data processing unit (DPU) PCIe half-height-half-length (HHHL) cards based on off-the-shelf 16-core […]