Category: Hardware

September 26, 2022

Supply chain problems have triggered most major networking players such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and others to redesign or re-engineer some products in an attempt to overcome component shortages and deliver products to customers. Lead times for some routers, switches […]

September 23, 2022

Chinese mobile operators have already deployed over 2.1 million 5G base stations across the country, local news agency Xinhua reported, citing data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The number of 5G base stations as of the […]

September 22, 2022

A new survey released by UK-based research firm Omdia bears out some of the industry’s rosier predictions for IoT uptake among businesses, finding that almost four out of five companies expect to be actively deploying IoT within the next two […]

September 2, 2022

Ericsson has launched the Radio 6646, a new triple-band, tri-sector radio that the company claimed is capable of doing the job of nine radios, all while cutting energy consumption by 40% and weighing 60% less than comparable solutions. The Radio […]

August 24, 2022

A new report on the status of U.S. broadband looks at how fiber deployments are correlated with several aspects of quality of life, and concludes that access to high-speed broadband is becoming increasingly influential in how people decide where to […]

August 10, 2022

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act into law. The bipartisan bill, approved by Congress in late July, will channel $52.7 billion into American semiconductor manufacturing and research efforts and pumps billions more into […]

August 10, 2022

China Tower ended the first half of the 2022 with a total of 2.05 million towers under management, after a new addition of 11,000 sites during the period. In a release, the company said that total tower tenants rose by […]

July 28, 2022

Inseego announced that the Inseego Wavemaker FX2000 5G indoor router is now being sold to customers on the Three Sweden network. Three Sweden is part of Three Group Europe, which includes networks in Austria, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Sweden and the […]

July 25, 2022

An acute shortage of fiber optic cabling is set to create significant bottlenecks across critical communications infrastructure projects worldwide. Analysis from market intelligence firm Cru Group shows the price of fiber has risen 70% over the last 18 months or […]

July 21, 2022

T-Systems continues to invest in the automotive industry, focusing on four areas: Vehicle software and connectivity, digital customer experiences, the digitization of the company, and secure cloud computing. To this end, the Telekom subsidiary plans to create around 600 jobs […]

July 14, 2022

The 3GPP approved the Release-18 package in December 2021, making the official start of 5G-Advanced with the planned freeze date in December 2023. Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research expects that 75% of 5G base stations will be upgraded to […]

July 13, 2022

Juniper Networks has upgraded its cloud-based management platform and introduced a new switch family for campus and branch networks. On the management side, Juniper says the goal is to simplify network operations for organizations with a mix of campus, branch, […]

July 11, 2022

To develop Apple apps, you need a Mac. So, what do you do if you don’t have one? One option is to turn to the cloud. Since late 2020, Amazon Web Service (AWS) has offered the capability. AWS customers can […]

July 6, 2022

According Counterpoint’s latest Foundry and Chipset Tracker, several factors contributed to a decline of 5% YoY in Q1 2022 in the global smartphone chipset (SoC/AP+Baseband) shipments, including weaker demand in China and over-shipping from some chipset vendors in Q4 2021. […]

July 6, 2022

Chinese networking equipment vendor H3C has released what it says is the first Wi-Fi 7 router on the market, well in advance of the standard becoming final, which isn’t expected to happen before 2024. The H3C Magic BE18000, announced in […]

June 27, 2022

Qualcomm has announced its third-generation of Wi-Fi Front End Modules (FEM), which are integrated RF components that help amplify and route signals between the Wi-Fi System on Chip (SoC) and the antenna. The latest generation of modules is designed for […]

June 7, 2022

Extreme Networks has extended its Universal Switch family and added an SD-WAN subscription package to provide more flexible enterprise networking options. At the Extreme Connect user conference the company added a new top-end switch—the 5720—to its Universal Switch familty, a […]

June 1, 2022

Nokia announced plans to integrate Microsoft Azure Arc capabilities into the Nokia MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) platform, unlocking the potential of mission critical applications for Industry 4.0 use cases. Through the integration, Nokia MXIE and private wireless solution customers have […]

May 31, 2022

In conjunction with AsiaTech x Singapore 2022 taking place this week from the 31st of May to the 3rd of June, Tara Neal, Executive Editor at The Fast Mode spoke to Leslie Klein, the founder of C-COM Satellite Systems Inc, […]

May 19, 2022

Telecom equipment vendors have said that they will be ready to roll out the first phase of 5G in India by October. According to a report in Indian newspaper Business Standard, telecom gear makers have said that they will be […]