Why Service Assurance is Vital to our Multi-Cloud Future

https://youtu.be/MoglRmOW6m0Going forward, service assurance is vital for personal and business communications, says Chet Patel, BT's Chief Commercial Officer and President, BT Americas.  Continuous investment is needed, especially in AI, automation, and analytics, to ensure the best customer experience.  Here is a 1-minute perspective from San Francisco.Download the 2021 Service Assurance Report here: https://ngi.how/sa-2...

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DISH Wireless and Cisco target 5G enterprise services

DISH Wireless and Cisco announced a strategic agreement focused on enterprise 5G services in the United States. Some highlights:Go-to-market strategy: DISH will participate in Cisco’s Reseller and Managed Services ProgramDeployment of an intelligent transport network: Cisco is helping to plan, design and deliver an open, cloud-based network that will predict, self-heal and self-optimize with closed-loop automation for transport network slicing. Co-innovation...

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Ericsson's Intelligent Automation Platform runs rApps

Ericsson launched its Intelligent Automation Platform and a suite of rApps as its next natural step for existing 4G and 5G radio access networks (RAN). The Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform is a service management and orchestration product that builds on the company's cloud native dual-mode 5G Core and the Cloud RAN portfolio, while also supporting multivendor RANs including purpose-built and Open RANs. The solution facilitates AI and...

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FCC attracts $21.8 billion in bids for mid-band spectrum

The FCC announced the conclusion of bidding in the first phase of Auction 110 for licenses in the 3.45 to 3.55 GHz band. Winning bidders will now have the opportunity to bid for frequency-specific licenses in the assignment phase of Auction 110.  In the clock phase, bidders won 4,041 of the 4,060 available generic blocks, and gross proceeds in the clock phase reached over $21.8 billion, which places Auction 110 among the highest grossing auctions...

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Bloomberg: Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List

China has formed a secretive Information Technology Application Innovation Working Committee with the goal of replacing foreign technology suppliers and boosting local competitors, according to Bloomberg. The report says the committee has developed an “IT Application Innovation” plan, known as Xinchuang in Chinese, that serves as a whitelist of approved vendors for government and private sector projects in the areas of telecom equipment, data...

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Lumentum introduces multi-junction VCSEL arrays

Lumentum introduced high-performance 1D and 2D addressable arrays for advanced automotive, consumer, and industrial LiDAR and 3D sensing applications.VCSEL arrays have become the preferred laser illumination source for short-range 3D sensing applications such as biometric security and world-facing LiDAR in consumer mobile devices due to their proven reliability and ability to be manufactured at scale. Lumentum said its multi-junction VCSEL arrays...

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Keysight and Credo collaborate on 800 GigE testing

Keysight Technologies has collaborated with Credo to enable data center operators  and the respective supply chain to validate the readiness of data center equipment in complex 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) environments.The 800GE testing equipment is comprised of Keysight's G800GE Forward Error Correction- (FEC) Aware and Compliance test system using Credo’s Active Electrical Cable (AEC) connectivity solution. The AECs are key to ensuring signal...

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PacketFabric offers hourly billing for 100G data center interconnection

PacketFabric is now offering hourly billing for data center interconnect (DCI) backbone virtual circuits (VCs), at speeds up to 100Gbps across nearly 200 global points of presence (PoPs).PacketFabric customers can now create hourly backbone VCs on demand via the PacketFabric portal and API. In addition, customers can dynamically provision burstable bandwidth on an hourly basis, above term-based backbone VCs."The cloud is what happens to traditional...

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Zayo Expands in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne

Zayo announced an expansion of network infrastructure in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Expansion plans include adding more than 200 route miles throughout Indiana over the next two years, including a new fiber route from South Bend, Indiana, to Grand Rapids, Michigan. By year’s end, a long haul dark fiber route from Indianapolis to St. Louis, Missouri will be available to new and existing customers, adding network protection on a key...

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