FCC kicks off mmWave spectrum auction

The FCC commenced the next of its 5G auctions, with bidding on spectrum in the upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz, and 47 GHz bands (Auction 103).  The FCC is making 3,400 MHz of millimeter-wave spectrum available through this auction.  Auction 103 will offer 14,144 Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service licenses in the Upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz, and 47 GHz bands, and the licenses will be based on Partial Economic Areas (PEAs). Category M/N consists of blocks...

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NTT and Microsoft envision a Global Digital Fabric

by James E. Carroll NTT Corporation (NTT) and Microsoft announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed that envisions the creation of a Global Digital Fabric, development of digital enterprise solutions built on Microsoft Azure, and co-innovation of next-generation technologies in the area of all-photonics network and digital twin computing. The alliance will bring together NTT’s ICT infrastructure, managed services and cybersecurity expertise,...

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Google Cloud adds packet mirroring for network troubleshooting

Google Cloud Platform released to beta a new service that provides packet mirroring for troubleshooting existing Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). GCP's Packet Mirroring service supports third-party tools to collect and inspect network traffic at scale, provide intrusion detection, application performance monitoring, and better security controls, helping you ensure the security and compliance of workloads running in Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes...

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Silver Peak adds multi-fabric orchestration to its SD-WAN platform

Silver Peak rolled out new capabilities for its Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, including multi-fabric orchestration and management, one-click automation with leading cloud services, and advanced segmentation and cloud-scale connectivity. The company says these enable large enterprises to scale, automate and simplify the configuration, deployment and management of a modern WAN edge to 10,000 sites and beyond. Silver Peak's new Unity Orchestrator...

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Lattice intros low-power FPGAs

Lattice Semiconductor introduced its new low power FPGA platform, Lattice Nexus, which targets applications such as AI for IoT, video, hardware security, embedded vision, 5G infrastructure and industrial/automotive automation. The Lattice Nexus platform features optimized DSP blocks and higher on-chip memory capacity to enable power-efficient computing, such as AI inferencing algorithms, and runs twice as fast at half the power of Lattice’s previous...

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Spirent signs over 100 deal for 5G related testing in 2019

Spirent Communications closed more than 100 5G-related deals during 2019. The company says cites accelerated deployment timetables that require complex testing and the need to incorporate assurance into new, next-gen networks for guaranteed quality. Spirent is now engaged in more than 150 global 5G initiatives with a broad mix of operators, device makers, network equipment manufacturers, academic institutions, government and cloud providers. In...

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NTT develops Direct Spectrum Division Transmission for satellites

NTT has developed a technique called Direct Spectrum Division Transmission (DSDT) that divides the spectrum of the satellite communications signals into multiple sub-spectra, then makes communications after allocating them to the unused frequency slots of the operating band of the transponder in space, and finally recombines the divided sub-spectra into a single carrier signal. NTT said it has verified this technique in satellite experiments. The...

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