Early 5G coverage is spotty, service is limited, signals often drop within hundreds of feet of a base station, and devices — specifically 5G capable smartphones that don’t require a special accessory — are nonexistent.
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: China Investigating Ericsson Over Licensing Model
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SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for April 19, 2019: Ericsson’s China offices are raided by antitrust regulators; 5G is part of the FCC’s $20B rural broadband pledge; and a security flaw is found in popular enterprise VPNs.
GitLab’s DevOps Plans Ride Growing Kubernetes Federation
Priyanka Sharma, director of technical evangelism at the company, said that the expansion of Kubernetes across the ecosystem has had a profound impact on how organizations deal with DevOps.
Microsoft Reveals New Government Secret Data Centers Amid JEDI Battle
As the battle for the $10 billion JEDI contract narrows down to AWS and Microsoft Azure, Microsoft makes even more updates to its Government offerings.
Cisco Discloses Critical Security Alerts for OS, Routers
One of the critical vulnerabilities has been exploited in the wild. It’s part of a DNS hijacking campaign dubbed “Sea Turtle” that Cisco Talos researchers disclosed earlier this week.
Microsoft Acquires Express Logic, Aims to Level Up to Amazon in IoT
By adding ThreadX to its Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft now has a direct competitor to Amazon FreeRTOS, an open-source platform that Amazon took stewardship of in 2016.
Orange’s 5G Plans Could Include Samsung, Will Be Driven by Enterprise Partners
The France-based operator is taking a “best-in-class” approach to its vendor selection and is working with 1,000 of its enterprise customers to test and develop 5G use cases.
CloudBees Stings DevOps Rivals With Electric Cloud Acquisition
Electric Cloud was recently stationed as a leader in a Forrester Research report on continuous delivery and release automation.
Scalyr Launches Open Source Community LogRunners for All Things Observability
The group is named for the Australian Logrunner, a bird that is “uniquely adapted” to forage and search, such as the group will help forage for innovation and troubleshooting in emerging technologies, says Scalyr’s Dave McAllister.
Huawei Details Advancements in 5G Core and RAN
“Huawei will continue its investment in 5G technologies and stick to transparent and open cooperation to build a credible [information and communications technology] infrastructure,” said Peter Zhou, CMO of Huawei’s wireless network product line.
Orange and Nokia Migrate Networks to Photonic Control Plane
Switching the networks to software-managed operations allows the operator to deploy on-demand activation services and automatic recovery control via artificial intelligence-based technologies if there is an outage.
Cisco, Huawei, ZTE Part of ‘Successful’ 5G Transport Tests
Nineteen vendors took part in tests that placed a strong focus on synchronization for 5G and the 5G readiness of multi-vendor transport networks.
Cloudian Gives MSPs Access to S3-Based Scalable Storage and Cloud Services
MSP program customers are ensured compatibility with Cloudian’s technology partners’ software for data protection, big data, backup, archive, and data management.
Apple Resolves Dispute With Qualcomm as Intel Admits Defeat
As part of the settlement, Apple agreed to pay Qualcomm an undisclosed amount and inked a six-year license deal with Qualcomm.
Sprint Disparages Itself to Boost Prospects for T-Mobile Merger
If the proposed merger with T-Mobile fails and SoftBank doesn’t invest further in Sprint, the outlook is grim.