AT&T and Qualcomm Put LTE on Drones

Qualcomm and AT&T will test Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, on commercial 4G LTE networks and upcoming 5G networks. The UAS trials, which begin later this month at Qualcomm's San Diego campus, will be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight, which offers high fidelity sensor processing, precise localization, autonomous visual navigation and 4K videography. The team will look at coverage, signal, strength and mobility across network...

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Verizon and Qualcomm Bet on Cat M1 LTE

Verizon will pre-integrate its ThingSpace IoT platform as-a-service within Qualcomm Technologies’ MDM9206 Category M (Cat M1) LTE modem. The joint initiative also utilizes Verizon’s 4G LTE network as the gateway for simplifying the process of building, deploying and managing IoT applications customized for a wide-range of use cases. The companies said their collaboration would address the barriers most commonly associated with IoT deployments –...

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AT&T Brings Connectivity to LeEco Super Bike

AT&T will be the exclusive U.S. wireless carrier for the LeEco Super Bike, which offers tracking features as well as an alarm triggered by movement, a fingerprint scanner, and an electronic parking brake on the rear disc. The bike comes with a waterproof smart device with a 4-inch display, running Android software, connected to AT&T’s cellular network. “The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating endless possibilities for consumers and businesses,”...

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Intel to Acquire Movidius for Machine Vision Silicon

Intel has agreed to acquire Movidius, a start-up developing a programmable, ultra-low power vision chip. Financial terms were not disclosed. Movidius is based in San Mateo, California, with design centers in Dublin, Ireland, and Timisoara, Romania. Intel said the acquisition brings low-power, high-performance SoC platforms for accelerating computer vision applications. Additionally, this acquisition brings algorithms tuned for deep learning, depth...

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Sequans Demos LTE Cat M1 Chip

Sequans Communications is demonstrating its LTE Category M1/NB1 chip at this week's CTIA’s Super Mobility Week in Las Vegas. Sequans’ Monarch chip will be shown in live communication with an LTE eNodeB (base station) emulator, the Amari OTS 100 from Amarisoft. Monarch is an LTE Cat M1/NB1, LTE Release 13 solution. It is designed specifically for narrowband IoT applications, including sensors, wearables, and other low data, low power M2M and IoT...

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Zayo is Awarded 1,800 Site National Mobile Infrastructure Contract

Zayo announced its largest mobile infrastructure contract to date, but did not disclose the customer or financial terms. Zayo will upgrade and expand the customer’s fiber-to-the-tower (FTT) network, which includes dark fiber to more than 1,800 cell sites in 26 markets across the U.S. With this expansion, Zayo’s FTT network will surpasses an estimated 10,000 cell sites nationwide, including those under construction. “Close collaboration between...

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Lanner's Network Appliance Certified with NTT Lagopus SDN

Lanner Electronic's FW-7551  Intel x86 based network appliance has been certified to be compatible with NTT Lagopus SDN software switch. The appliance is powered by Intel Atom CPU C2000 SoC up to 8-core and 8GB 1333/1600 DDR3 memory. Lagopus, functioning as Open Source Software (OSS), is developed by NTT to provide a high-performance and flexible functionality suitable for data centers and wide area network applications. In the mean time,...

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