China Tower - world's largest mobile infrastructure company goes IPO

China Tower, which had been pitched as the world's largest IPO - and not just for telecoms, drew lacklustre investor enthusiasm this week as its shares began trading on the Hong Kong Exchange. Trading opened on Wednesday at the bottom of the forecasted range at HK$1.26 and closed at exactly the same price. This raised HK$54.3 billion (US$6.9 billion) for China Tower, funds that will be much needed for the very capital intensive undertaking of preparing...

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China Mobile is a mixed bag with big subscriber numbers, low ARPU

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator in terms of customers, published a mixed report for the first half of 2018, revealing increased profitability amidst an overall drop in revenue, heightened price competition from rivals China Telecom and China Unicom, and a slowing of new customer additions as the market becomes saturated even in rural areas of the country. It is a mixed picture as well because China Mobile is seeing a wave of IoT...

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VMware picks up Dell EMC Service Assurance suite

VMware agreed to acquire the technology and team of Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite - software spanning network health, performance monitoring and root cause analysis for communications service providers (CSPs) and their customers - from Dell EMC. Financial terms were not disclosed. The core Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite, which has been deployed by more than 50 CSPs worldwide, including many Tier 1 operators, provides assurance capabilities...

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Ericsson -- first 5G radios built in US by end of 2018

Ericsson will boost US-based R&D to meet the growing demand for 5G in the region. Plans call for a new software development center with a baseband focus that is expected to employ 200 software engineers when fully operations. Last year, Ericsson opened a 5G ASIC design center in Austin, Texas. This facility will have 80 employees once fully staffed. Ericsson will begin manufacturing in the US to support the 5G rollouts of its US customers and...

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IDC: SD-WAN infrastructure to hit $4.5 Billion in 2022

The SD-WAN infrastructure market will grow at a 40.4% compound annual growth rate from 2017 to 2022 to reach $4.5 billion, according to IDC's latest SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast. IDC said SD-WAN infrastructure revenues increased 83.3% in 2017 to reach $833 million.  IDC finds that Cisco holds the largest share of the SD-WAN infrastructure market, fueled by its extensive routing portfolio that is used in SD-WAN deployments, as well as its...

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Windstream cites growth in SD-WAN as overall revenues dip 3%

Windstream reported Q2 revenue of $1.44 billion, a decrease of 3 percent from the same period a year ago, and total service revenues were $1.42 billion, a decrease of 3 percent year-over-year. Operating income was $88 million compared to $103 million in the same period a year ago. The company reported a net loss of $94 million, or $2.30 per share, compared to a net loss of $68 million, or $1.83 per share, a year ago. Some highlights: ILEC consumer...

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Malaysia's Celcom Axiata adopts Huawei's cloud OSS

Celcom Axiata Berhad will deploy Huawei's cloud-based Digitized Operation Platform, Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to manage its network in Malaysia. Celcom will be the first in Malaysia to adopt a full suite cloud-based Operation Support Service (OSS) system. The platform will enhance Celcom's capabilities in managing increasingly complex networks and services. It also enables Celcom to transform their daily operations from reactive to proactive...

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Portworx expands container data management options for AWS

Portworx, a start-up based in Los Altos, California announced that its PX-Enterprise can now be integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), enabling mission critical stateful workloads to run in Docker containers with dynamic provisioning, cross-Availability Zone high availability, application consistent snapshots, auto-scaling and encryption functionality. Portworx can also be integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes...

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Fujitsu develops high power Gallium-Nitride transistors

Fujitsu Labs has developed a crystal structure that both increases current and voltage in gallium-nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMT). The innovation effectively triples the output power of transistors used for transmitters in the microwave band. Potential applications could include weather radar and 5G systems. Fujitsu said GaN high electron mobility transistors can extend the outreach of microwaves from the microwave and millimeter-wave...

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