Tag: MEC

October 6, 2020

Could the original service connecting people and businesses across the United States play a role in furthering the deployment of next-generation 5G connectivity? According to a report from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General, the answer is yes, […]

September 22, 2020

Each generation of cellular networks fundamentally changed the world we live in. 1G brought us the brick phone utilizing analog technology in the ‘80s. For the first time, phones became truly mobile albeit they were bulky and expensive, and limited […]

August 7, 2020

Identifying colon polyps in real time as a scope moves to scan the inside of a patient’s organ. Tracking a basketball player’s position and speed as he moves through the arena to provide never-before tracked statistics, instantaneously. Those are two […]

July 24, 2020

Verizon outperformed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter, and although its overall revenues were still down slightly from last year, the company seems to limiting the potential fallout from the pandemic while it maintains its focus on 5G. After […]

June 26, 2020

Can artificial intelligence be trained to improve wireless network performance, classify emerging devices on a network, or conduct real-time machine learning at the network edge? Those are just a few of the concepts being explored in new research programs funded […]

April 16, 2020

In the ongoing generational shift from LTE to 5G, network security is top of mind for carriers and governments, particularly as it relates to Chinese ICT giant Huawei Technologies. While Huawei has had difficulties in the U.S. and markets where […]

March 6, 2020

Telecom giants Telefónica, KT, China Unicom and Telstra have entered an agreement to collaborate on the Muti-Operator Multiaccess Edge Computing (MEC) Experience. The collaboration is part of the GSMA Operator Platform initiative, which is initially focused on edge computing and […]

March 5, 2020

Google Cloud is seeking to be the avenue by which telecom companies both transform their own network capabilities and enable enterprises to do the same, with a combination of 5G, edge computing, and cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning and data […]

December 3, 2019

China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) announced what it claims to be Hong Kong’s first 5G Standalone (SA) network test. The operator said in a release that the radio cell sites supporting both 5G SA and NSA network are now installed […]

July 29, 2019

5G networks are the talk of the mobile world, with a few test markets already available in the US and the UK. The launch of 5G networks marks a sea change in greater global connectivity and a radical departure from […]

July 23, 2019

If 5G will be enterprise-led, as AT&T believes, then what are the use cases that its network will need to support — and which ones will generate the revenue that will justify new capital investment? The carrier is using its […]

June 14, 2019

In the 5G era, mobile communication experiences man-to-man communication, man-to-thing communication, and machine-to-machine. AR/VR, IoT, industry automation, unmanned driving etc services are introduced widely. Thus come lots of network requirements, i.e. high bandwidth, low delay and massive connections, which are […]

March 14, 2019

SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics have completed a network device interoperability test that applies dual connectivity technology, using both 4G and 5G networks provided by Samsung. This technology is also known as E-UTRAN New Radio Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) and is […]

February 25, 2019

By this time, many of you might have followed the exciting news of the launch of commercial friendly user trial by Rakuten Mobile Network Inc. (referred as just “Rakuten” in this blog post) – the newest and the 4th mobile […]

February 1, 2019

Verizon was able to cut its network latency in half in a test that combined its 5G Radio Access Network, multi-access edge computing and its virtualized network platform. Low latency, the carrier said, “will be increasingly vital as next generation […]

December 12, 2018

Last year, there was much talk of 5G: when would networks be deployed, which operators were testing what, and which region would lead the 5G race? As the costs and complexities of rolling out the next generation standard have crystallised, […]

December 3, 2018

Over the last few years enterprises have been radically transforming. Buildings are becoming smarter and how people work is evolving. These changes can be attributed to several factors, including the changing face of today’s workforce with Millennials representing the largest […]

September 27, 2018

At a basic level, network virtualization is fundamentally the same whether regardless of where in an operator’s network it is implemented – be it access, edge or core. Briefly, these foundations include: The ability to scale-in/scale-out network resources. In order […]

February 17, 2016

The mobile edge computing space is set to receive a boost as Quortus and Applied Computer Solutions said they plan to partner on technology supporting MEC, with plans for a proof of concept demonstration at the upcoming Mobile World Congress […]