Tag: 5G

August 16, 2019

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” – so wrote French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the early twentieth century. Nearly a hundred years later, these words ring true to mobile operators as they seek to deploy 5G […]

August 15, 2019

Network architectures are becoming more complex and decentralized. Applications are becoming more advanced, data-heavy, and compute-intensive. Both trends will continue as communications service providers (CSPs) upgrade their 4G networks first, and then begin the migration to 5G. While doing so, […]

August 14, 2019

Intel and Lenovo have entered a multiyear, global collaboration that will accelerate the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address some of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. The companies aim to utilize Lenovo’s TOP500 supercomputers […]

August 12, 2019

One of the biggest areas of hype these days centers around how 5G will change the wireless world. Carriers are ramping up their rhetoric, which not always matched with actual deployment. End users are being bombarded with 5G news from […]

August 9, 2019

Right now, 5G deployments around the world use an LTE core and radio access network with the addition of a 5G carrier. The next step is to move from that scenario, non-standalone 5G, on to full-blown standalone 5G with a […]

August 8, 2019

With its mobile unit EE in the early days of offering up 5G, parent company BT has recently made strategic investments that underpin the operator’s plans for a cloud-native, converged network that uses open source tools to manage mobile, fixed […]

August 7, 2019

Verizon’s ongoing mobile 5G network deployment, slated to hit parts of 30 cities by the end of the year, taps the operator’s millimeter wave spectrum holdings and has delivered downlink speeds in excess of 2 Gbps. In discussing how Verizon […]

August 7, 2019

As early 5G deployments begin amid expectations that the next generation of wireless technology will be enterprise-led, Small Cell Forum has been exploring the intersection of 5G, small cell infrastructure and the internet of things. “It is widely accepted in […]

August 6, 2019

To understand what’s really happening with digital transformation across the communications industry it helps to contrast conventional wisdom, or the hype cycle, with actual communications service provider (CSP) activities. Here we examine five domains that inform digital transformation and draw […]

August 6, 2019

Major carriers have big 5G plans moving forward, and preliminary tests have shown that, yes, 5G is way faster All four major U.S. carriers are officially in the 5G game. While AT&T appears to be leading the pack with the […]