AT&T claims its 5G network allows businesses to run more intensive IoT applications that require faster speeds, response times, and near real-time visibility.
“The telco industry must realize that the value proposition for enterprise 5G does not lie in the technology as such, but in the applications it enables," ABI Research analyst
The updates are built into Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) and include segment routing and Ethernet VPN, and supports Arista’s R3-series switches.
“Based on our investigation yesterday, the information that appeared in an internet chat room does not appear to have come from our systems,” an AT&T spokesperson said.
“This was not a sophisticated attack; this was not a zero day. T-Mobile left a gate wide open for attackers, and attackers just had to find the gate,” Forrester
The carrier said that the stolen data includes customers’ first and last names, date of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license information.
“T-Mobile has been a favorite target of hackers over the past few years, and they really need a complete rethink of security,” ZK Research principal analyst Zeus Kerravala said.
"The big three operators that account for nearly 70% of total U.S. capex — AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile — spent just over $26 billion, up 61% from the first
ABI Research expects global 5G fixed wireless access to exceed 58 million residential households by 2026, while Mobile Experts predicts 66.5 million customers by that same year.
T-Mobile confirms "unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved."
“In five to 10 years, it is possible that we will see Rakuten Communications Platform's revenue and profit outpace our other businesses,” Rakuten founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani said.
Dell'Oro Group forecasts that sluggish adoption of 5G standalone network cores by operators will stunt multi-access edge computing investments through 2025.
Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s president of technology, noted that “the heart of the opportunity is spectrum” the operator acquired in the 2.5 GHz band through its merger with Sprint.
“We always, in telecom, put ourselves into this constraint that if you go outside of a predefined box you’re taking risks that are not acceptable," Rakuten Mobile CTO Tareq
Nokia’s current AirScale baseband portfolio supports cloud-based compute for the vCU and vDU, and it plans to ship massive MIMO 5G radios for mid-band spectrum that can be integrated