O2 Telefónica deploys Nokia's5G standalone core on AWS

O2 Telefónica in Germany has deployed a 5G standalone core on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The installation leverages Nokia’s secure and cloud-native 5G core architecture, including packet core.Nokia says the deployment underscores its multi-cloud ability to migrate existing communication service providers (CSPs) to a range of cloud platform options including public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud; using their choice of cloud platforms and making...

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Nokia and Vodafone trial Open RAN with Arm and HPE

Vodafone completed a trial of Nokia's anyRAN in collaboration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The live demonstration, held at Nokia's Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas, showcased the completion of an end-to-end Layer 3 (L3) data call.The test platform leveraged Ampere Arm-based general-purpose processors, the HPE ProLiant RL300 server, Nokia's Layer 1 (L1) accelerator, and Nokia’s RAN software. To complement the...

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RSA: Kevin Mandia's State of Cybersecurity - the Year in Review

 Despite better collaboration between industry and law enforcement, 2023 proved to be another record year for ransomeware, with attackers collecting an estimated $1.1 billion in payments from extorted companies, according to a keynote presentation at this week's RSA conference in San Francisco by Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant and Google Cloud. The damages caused by the attackers vastly exceeded this amount. Mandia's commentary is based...

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Tech Update: AI for Security and Security for AI

What's the difference between AI for Security and Security for AI?  Larry Lunetta, VP of Portfolio Solutions Marketing from HPE Aruba Networking explains:- The importance of AI in enhancing security solutions, particularly in protecting IoT devices which are prone to going rogue and initiating larger attacks.- The role of AI in identifying, fingerprinting, and assigning access rights to IoT devices, as well as monitoring their behavior in real-time...

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Lumen partners with Versa on Sovereign SASE

Lumen Technologies has expanded its partnership with Versa Networks to deliver a Sovereign SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solution that integrates AI-powered in-line security for Zero Trust at the network edge. This solution leverages Lumen's global network, as well as Versa's  Secure SD-WAN and Unified SASE capabilities, to provide real-time threat detection and remediation for customers.The Sovereign SASE solution is deployed on dedicated...

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Deutsche Glasfaser picks Nokia for fixed access and IP

Nokia confirmed a major contract with Deutsche Glasfaser to build a highly innovative and modern country-wide fiber broadband network in Germany. Nokia will provide a full suite of fixed access and IP network products including its next-generation PON fiber solution, capable of supporting GPON, XGS-PON and 25G PON on the same fiber, along with its Broadband Network Gateways (BNG). Nokia is swapping out two competitors’ installed basis of IP...

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Spirent and Aviz partner on 5G traffic monitoring

Spirent Communications and Aviz Networks announced a collaboration to further strengthen the Networking 3.0 Stack by offering customers more open, hardware vendor-agnostic methods for conducting intelligent traffic monitoring across various 5G network applications such as voice, video, data, mission critical services, IoT, and enterprise and industrial applications. Aviz Service Nodes integrate with existing packet broker networks operating...

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