China Mobile Demos 220 Mbps on 3.5 GHz interband TD-LTE

China Mobile has demonstrated 220 Mbps peak data transmission rates based on 3.5 GHz interband TD-LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation. The live demo, which was conducted at this week's Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015, used a commercial Nokia Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station and a test device to run combined 3.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz TD-LTE frequency bands. The 3.5 GHz band is another important spectrum resource for 4G networks, which will be used in...

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Nokia Launches LTE Radio and Core Features for IoT

Nokia Networks launched its IoT connectivity solution for LTE core and radio networks.Currently, mobile networks are primarily optimized for smartphone traffic. IoT applications are expected to bring new requirements for the network infrastructure, such as the number and type of connected devices, as well as different traffic patter. The new IoT connectivity solution consists of two elements: Nokia’s Core for IoT and its enhanced Smart Scheduler...

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Intel Sees Strength in Data Center & IoT Segments

Intel reported revenue of $13.2 billion for 2Q 2015, consistent with its previous guidance, gross margin of 62.5%, operating income of $2.9 billion, net income of $2.7 billion and EPS of 55 cents. The company said data center, memory and IoT represented a growing share of its profits, more than offsetting weakness in the desktop PC market. Revenue by segment: Client Computing Group revenue of $7.5 billion, up 2 percent sequentially and down 14...

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ConnectHome Initiative to Provide High-Speed Broadband to Low Income Housing

President Obama announced the ConnectHome initiative to provide high-speed broadband to low-income housing communities. The pilot program, which is launching in twenty-seven cities and in one tribal nation, will initially reach over 275,000 low-income households – and nearly 200,000 children. Some highlights of ConnectHome: In Google Fiber markets (including the ConnectHome cities of Atlanta, Durham, Kansas City, and Nashville), Google Fiber...

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IIJ Picks VMware vCloud for NFV

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has selected the VMware vCloud for NFV platform to support a new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) virtual CPE (vCPE) service. The new vCPE “IIJ Omnibus Service,” due to launch in September 2015 will include its proprietary SEIL series of high-performance routers and VPN gateway services to business customers. By moving to a virtualized CPE deployment model, IIJ will be able to transform the economics of...

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ACG Report Presents Business Case for NFV Now

A new study, conducted by industry research firm ACG and sponsored by Affirmed Networks and VMware, presents the business case for why Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) should accelerate their move to a NFV-based architecture. The report makes a five-year cost comparison between MNOs with traditional and virtualized network architectures.  Some key findings: MNOs that transitioned to an NFV-based platform began saving money in the first year...

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Dell'Oro: RAN Infrastructure Market to Shrink by $11B between 2015-19

The RAN market is expected to decline at a CAGR of -2% between 2015 and 2019, while the cumulative RAN market during the five-year forecast period is expected to be $11 B lower than the comparative five-year period (2010 through 2014), according to a new report by Dell'Oro Group. Some highlights: Total LTE  market—macro and small cell—expected to double between 2013 and 2019 Total Small Cell market—including distributed radio systems—expected...

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Ericsson Opens Cloud Lab in Aachen, Germany

Ericsson has established a new Cloud Lab in Aachen, Germany to support operators and industry customers in Europe with faster innovation through all stages in the development cycle towards cloud and virtualization. This includes early technology demos, testing, verification and pre-packaging up to live deployments of new services. The Cloud Lab will be built on Ericsson’s own technology and services expertise. This includes products such as Ericsson...

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