AT&T to launch 5G mobile on Dec 21 priced at $70 for 15GB

AT&T will launch its mobile 5G network on December 21. The first offering will be a mobile 5G hotspot device from Netgear priced at $499. The service is priced at $70 per month for 15 GB of data. Expected data speeds were not disclosed. “This is the first taste of the mobile 5G era,” said Andre Fuetsch, president, AT&T Labs and chief technology officer. “Being first, you can expect us to evolve very quickly. It’s early on the 5G journey...

Read More

Cisco to acquire Luxtera for silicon photonics -- $660M

Cisco agreed to acquire privately-held Luxtera, a developer of silicon photonic technologies, for $660 million in cash and assumed equity awards. Luxtera, which is based in Carlsbad, California, focuses on silicon photonics process and packaging technologies for building integrated optics capabilities for webscale and enterprise data centers, service provider market segments, and other customers. Luxtera leverages a hybrid integration approach...

Read More

T-Mobile and Sprint gets approvals from CFIUS, DOJ, DoD

T-Mobile US and Sprint received key regulatory approvals for their proposed merger transaction from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), as well as from the U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense, collectively referred to as Team Telecom. Team Telecom confirmed it has no objections to the merger and has withdrawn its request to defer action on the transaction. “We are...

Read More

Reuters: Huawei expects revenue to top US$100 billion, up 8.7%

Huawei executives said the company is on track to exceed US$100 billion in revenue this year, up 8.7%, according to Reuters. Ken Hu, the rotating CEO of Huawei, told Reuters that the company has secured 25 commercial contracts for 5G so far, up from 22 announced in November. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-outlook/huawei-to-spend-2-billion-over-five-years-in-cybersecurity-push-idUSKBN1OH0...

Read More

Packet's bare metal edge cloud to leverage Netronome SmartNICs

Packet, a start-up developing a bare metal cloud for developers, will leverage Netronome's SmartNICs to power cloud-native workloads at the edge. The companies are working on a joint design to be deployed throughout all of Packet’s cloud and edge sites. Each of Packet’s new Edge cloud microservers with integrated Netronome SmartNIC technology delivers up to 25 Gbps throughput while enabling highly scalable security policies and control close to...

Read More

ADTRAN intros next-gen FTTN platform for rural broadband

ADTRAN introduced the sixth generation of its sealed micro Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) platform. The solution is targetted at the 700,000 locations covered by the Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II program. Highlights: Includes a complete portfolio from low-density (16 subscribers) sealed micro FTTN solutions for rural deployments to high-density system level vectoring solutions (up to 384 subscribers across eight nodes) to serve semi-urban environments...

Read More

CBRS Alliance and ATIS to collaborate on 3.5 GHz band

The CBRS Alliance and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) agreed to collaborate to advance use of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum band and OnGo technology. Collaboration will focus on the technical interworking between the CBRS Alliance and ATIS solutions, including the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), Home Network Identity (HNI), Priority Services, and Radio Access Networks. The work...

Read More

Dr. Richard Uhlig to serve as Managing Director of Intel Labs

Dr. Richard Uhlig has been named as the new managing director of Intel Labs. Prior to this role, Rich was the director of Systems and Software Research in Intel Labs, where he led research efforts in virtualization, cloud-computing systems, software-defined networking, big-data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He joined Intel in 1996 and led the definition of multiple generations of virtualization architecture for Intel processors...

Read More

Verizon Media Group replaces the Oath brand

Verizon will replace the Oath brand, which brought together Yahoo, AOL and other properties, with a new brand to be called "Verizon Media Group. The announcement follows a Verizon disclosure earlier this month of a $4.5 billion accounting charge to write down the value of Oath properties. Verizon said its media group remains a core pillar of its business. https://www.verizon.com/about/news/introducing-verizon-media-grou...

Read More