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The move comes on the heels of AT&T’s most recent quarterly earnings release that was dominated by uncertainty tied to the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak.

Joining the alliance will speed Arm's mission to develop open, interoperable, and cloud-native infrastructure for 5G networks, said Arm's Panch Chandrasekaran.

The operator plans to build 5G mobile edge computing centers in 12 locations across South Korea to fuel its push into the enterprise market.

Open RAN is gaining momentum and it’s being driven further by collaboration between the Facebook-led TIP and the O-RAN Alliance.

The trial marks the successful use of a transceiver that's headline data rate can be achieved over a useful distance, said Infinera SVP Rob Shore.

A series of deals indicates that incumbent vendors like Nokia still have an important, and potentially unavoidable, role to play in modern network architecture.

While “smart,” the facility initially counts approximately 100 employees. The facility itself is not expected to be fully operational until later this year.

The chips are designed to power networking equipment like switches, routers, secure gateways, firewalls, base stations, and smartNICs.

“They’re trying to hurt Huawei to hurt China, and they’re going so far that they're willing to risk hurting America more than they hurt Huawei," CSO Andy Purdy said.

The vendor's boldly named Project Maestro is now on the market under the more straight-laced VMware Telco Cloud Automation tag.

One of the near-term goals is to make cryptography more robust and ready for a post-quantum computing landscape, said NTT Research CEO Kazuhiro Gomi.

The event might not be happening, but that doesn't mean we are going to ignore the big trends we still expect to see in the coming weeks.

Huawei is charged with conspiring to steal intellectual property from six U.S. companies, violating a racketeering law, and helping Iran track protesters with surveillance equipment.

The trio of carriers ended 2019 with almost 4.7 million 5G subscribers and shared some details about new services coming to the fore.

The effort, which eventually gathered buy-in from multiple federal agencies and 159 members of the CBRS Alliance, got underway in 2013.

The carrier added New Radio software to its existing non-standalone 5G base stations and achieved interoperability between equipment from Ericsson and Samsung.

The company’s two-part order with the Interior Department is spread over 11 one-year options that run through 2032.

"The plans we are announcing today are expected to lead to headcount reductions globally," the company said in a statement.

The group will share its work on 5G and MEC including working toward international MEC standards to support interoperability across operators.

The Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC) platform supports connections into the carrier’s existing base stations, mobility management services, and lawful intercept platforms.

Europe’s fifth-most populated country is the last in that region to launch 5G-specific spectrum auctions.

Huawei struck back at a report claiming the Chinese vendor benefitted from government subsidies that put it at an operational advantage compared to competitors.

Exablaze’s field programmable gate array-based devices play into Cisco’s intent-based networking strategy.