NFV Video Series: Overview and Objectives

In this 5-minute video, Dr. Christos Kolias, Senior Research Scientist at Orange Silicon Valley and one of the founding members of the NFV initiative within ETSI, introduces the basic concepts and objectives of network functions virtualisation. An ETSI meeting is underway this week in Bonn, Germany to further advance the initiative. NFV, in a nutshell, is about implementing and running network functions and services purely in software, on commoditized...

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Ericsson Demos VoLTE in Virtualized Core

Ericsson has demonstrated VoLTE in a virtualized core-network environment. Specifically, a large European operator was invited to the Ericsson Eurolab in Aachen, Germany in early June to experience the first proof-of-concept demonstration of Ericsson’s VoLTE (Voice over LTE) solution in a virtualized core-network environment. The VoLTE solution was shown for the first time in a virtualized telecom-core-network environment, and was run on commercial...

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Siemens Enterprise Communications Launches Project Ansible

Siemens Enterprise Communications unveiled Project Ansible, a dynamic unified communications and collaboration platform that is hosted in the cloud. The new platform, which was developed in collaboration with frog, features a modern interface that brings together voice, video, social communications, search, business process applications, and other channels on a desktop, notebook, tablet or smartphone. The company said its goal with Project Ansible...

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Dell'Oro: LTE RAN Equipment Revenues to More than Double by 2015

The Mobile Radio Access Network (RAN) LTE equipment market is forecast to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 20 percent over the next five years, according to a newly published forecast report by Dell’Oro Group. Top LTE RAN vendors in first quarter 2013 included Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Huawei. “Even though commercial LTE networks are deployed in more than 70 countries, it is important to keep in mind that in excess of...

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U.S. Navy's 2nd MUOS Satellite Launched

The second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, which will provide simultaneous voice, video and data communications to U.S. military combatants, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system designed to significantly improve beyond-line-of-sight communications for U.S. forces on the move. MUOS will provide military...

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