The vendor also announced the first commercial collaboration with long-time vendor partner Samsung tied to Dish Network’s ongoing 5G deployment.

The public preview comes as rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud continue to push similar efforts targeting the global telecom market.

CEO Pekka Lundmark also expressed confidence in the vendor gaining market share as “geopolitical tailwinds continue to favor us.”

NTT will provide Cisco with network infrastructure design, deployment, use case development, device sourcing, compatibility, and testing.

“We have a modern, 5G, smart network based in the cloud. ... That's Netflix versus Blockbuster,” Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said.

The white paper lays out progress and challenges in advancing open radio access network specifications.

This will support Comcast services using both the lightly-licensed Citizen Broadband Radio Service spectrum and its 600 MHz spectrum.

Red Hat is now available via Dell’s Telecom Infrastructure Blocks platform.

The vendor is reportedly cutting 10% of its workforce in its home country, with broader cuts expected.

The cloud giant's Telco Network Builder uses a template to defines how an operator or enterprise wants their network to run using AWS infrastructure.

“I typically joke that our best customers tend to be customers who have actually tried Nokia in some kind of deployment,” Celona's Puneet Shetty said.

The Japanese conglomerate is looking to slash capex in half beginning in 2024.

The companies said the work is “well suited for high-accuracy radio sensing, which will likely be another key feature of 6G.”

The deal calls for AT&T to deploy wireless infrastructure in Frontier’s fiber-focused facilities.

“This is one of the biggest growth segments as we start thinking in terms of where 5G-based deployments are heading,” Qualcomm's Durga Malladi said.

Neville Ray is set to leave the company later this year and will be replaced by current carrier exec Ulf Ewaldsson.

The goal is to provide developers a broad set of architecture and infrastructure capabilities to match their workloads.

The pair are also partnering with Palo Alto Networks to integrate a multi-factor, zero-trust security model into the private wireless package.

“It's a business tool that allows you to program your network the way you want to meet your business needs,” Mavenir's Brandon Larson said.

The NR-Light specification limits spectrum use to 20 megahertz for sub-6 GHz bands and 100 megahertz for millimeter-wave spectrum.

The carrier is sitting on more than 1,700 megahertz of spectrum above 6 GHz, which is a vast majority of its total spectrum holdings.

The update comes as the federal government continues to work through the hardening of the country’s telecommunications and information infrastructure.

The pair's white paper focuses on integration testing of open radio access network radio units and distributed units.

CEO Mike Sievert stated the carrier's investment to bolster its cybersecurity capabilities reduced the blast radius of its latest breach.