Huawei and China Telecom implement 5G Super Uplink

China Telecom Shanghai announced the implementation of a 5G Super Uplink solution featuring TDD/FDD coordination, high-band/low-band complementation, and time/frequency domain aggregation. Super Uplink, which is supported from end to end by Huawei 5G technologies, was first announced by the partners at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona The 5G Super Uplink implements the time-frequency domain aggregation of TDD and FDD in the uplink...

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Embracing MEF LSO APIs for Better, Automated Customer Experience

MEF Annual Meeting – July 2019, Shawn Hakl, SVP of Business Products, Verizon, shares his excitement about MEF’s work in standardizing LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) that enable end-to-end orchestration of services across service providers and over multiple network technology domains. He is particularly excited about the potential impact of LSO Sonata API adoption for inter-provider service automation. “We just came out of a pretty exciting Board Meeting about the progression of LSO standards at MEF. I think people should be really excited...

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Broadcom announces PCIe Gen 4.0 switch and retimer

Broadcom's new PCIe Gen 4.0 ExpressFabric switch family, including switches and a retimer, has entered commercial production. The new PEX88000 switch family ranges from 26 to 98 lanes and ports and is designed for high-throughput and low-latency applications such as deep learning, high performance computing (HPC) and NVMe all-flash arrays. The PEX88T32 retimer is based on Broadcom's existing PCIe Gen 4.0 SerDes IP that has been used in a wide-variety...

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Dell'Oro: Worldwide telecom equipment market up 6%

The worldwide telecom equipment market grew 6 percent year-over-year (Y/Y) in the past twelve months, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The majority of growth was driven by Mobile RAN and Optical Transport sales. Equipment manufacturer revenue in these two technology areas grew 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively. The telecom equipment market shifted into a growth phase in 3Q 2018 after three years of decline. As a result, the market’s...

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Huawei updates its 5G progress

Huawei Technologies issued the following update regarding its 5G momentum: 50 commercial contracts signed to date 28 contracts from Europe, 11 from the Middle East, 6 from Asia-Pacific, 4 from the Americas, 1 from Africa 200,000 5G base stations shipped to date As of June 2019, HUAWEI CLOUD and its partners have opened 23 regions with a total of 44 availability zones, and launched over 180 cloud services and 180 solutions....

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MEF's LSO Developer Community & Service Automation

MEF Annual Meeting – July/Aug 2019, Daniel Bar-Lev, Director, Office of the CTO, MEF, discusses the importance of LSO APIs for enabling end-to-end automation of communications services across multiple providers and over multiple network technology domains. He also provides an overview of MEF's newly introduced LSO Developer Community whose primary purpose is to accelerate the adoption of MEF data models and APIs as defined for each of the reference points in the MEF LSO Reference Architecture (MEF 55). LSO Developer Community The LSO Developer...

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KPN deactivates ISDN in Netherlands

KPN officially deactivated its ISDN service on 01-September-2019. ISDN, which offers two high-quality 64 kbps channels over a single connection; was first introduced in the Netherlands in the early 1990s. Other providers also offer ISDN services based on KPN’s (Wholesale) network. KPN is offering a grace period for these telecom providers to migrate customers to another service. KPN expects all lines to be phased out in the first quarter of 2020,...

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U.S. and Poland sign 5G Pact

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed a 5G cooperation pact that call for all network equipment vendors to be given a “rigorous evaluation”, including whether they are controlled by a foreign government, and be subject to “independent judicial review”.  Huawei is not mentioned by name. The Trump administration is pushing U.S. allies to impose a ban on Huawe...

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ZTE’s Sergio Parolari elected 3GPP RAN2 Vice Chairman

Sergio Parolari has been elected Vice Chairman of 3GPP RAN2. As a key contributor in 3GPP for 17 years, Sergio Parolari has been a regular RAN2 delegate since January 2010. Sergio has been active in many LTE and NR topics, including carrier aggregation, dual connectivity, machine-type communications, proximity services, NB-IoT and 5G NR. Moreover, he is the rapporteur of the 5G Stage 2 specification TS37.340 on “Multi-connectivity”. At 3GPP, besides...

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